. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 306 STNTOMID^. 676. Syntomeida melanthus. Sphinx melanthus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 248. C (1779); Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 42 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 122. Sphinx niicteus, StoU, Pap, Exot. iv. pi. F (1780). Euchromia apricans, Wlk. i. 224 (1854). Syntomeida aUnfasciata, Bull. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 366 (1876); Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 42; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 123. Black shot with dull bronze-green; antennoe white at tips; tegulae, shoulders, and vertex of thorax with orange patches ; sides o
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 306 STNTOMID^. 676. Syntomeida melanthus. Sphinx melanthus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 248. C (1779); Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 42 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 122. Sphinx niicteus, StoU, Pap, Exot. iv. pi. F (1780). Euchromia apricans, Wlk. i. 224 (1854). Syntomeida aUnfasciata, Bull. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 366 (1876); Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 42; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 123. Black shot with dull bronze-green; antennoe white at tips; tegulae, shoulders, and vertex of thorax with orange patches ; sides of thorax and coxse with whitish patches ; abdomen with white band at base tinged with orange on dorsum, and pale or deep orange bands on the other segments; the ventral valve of male edged with yellowish ; three white bands on medial segments. Fore. Fig. 138.—Syntomeida melanthus, ($. \. wing with pale yellow quadrate spots below base of cell and in and below middle of cell; a series of four spots beyond the cell. Hind wing with hyaline white streaks in and below base of eel], and two pale yellow spots beyond the cell. Ab. 1. nyctevs : with the yellow spots more or less reduced, some- times absent except for the spot below cell and speck in cell. Ab. 2. Fore wing with the two yellow spots beloAv the cell conjoined. Ab. 3. alhifasciata: with the bands of abdomen whitish. Hah. Mexico; Guatemala; Costa Rica; Nicabagua, Godman- Salvin Coll.; Honbtteas, type alhifasciata; Venezuela, type apricans. Eccp. 50 millim. 677. Syntomeida syntomoides. Glaitcopis syntomoides, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 16. f. 4 (1836); Kirby, Calt. Het. p. 123. Glancopis satilcyi, Guer. Icon. R. Anim., Ins. p. 502 (1844); Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 43; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 123. Calonota niveifascia, Wlk. vii. 1628 (1856). Glancopis vidua, Menetr. Cat. Lep. Petersb. ii. p. 141, pi. 14. f. 6 (1857); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 174. Glancopis vidua, var. spiracula, Menetr. Cat. Lep. Petersb. ii. p. 142. Hip
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