. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. EMPTREUIIA. LEUCOrLEL'];A. 423 937. Empyreuma lichas. Zygcena lichas, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. App. p. 605 (1781). Sphinx sangiiinom, Martyn, Tsyche, pi. 26. ff. 18, 19 (iued.); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 121. Head and thorax black-brown : antennae bluish, the tips orange : tegulae, shoulders, patagia, and coxa? with small white spots ; abdomen metallic greenish, with dorsal white spots on first two. Fig. 223.—Empyreuma lichas, J. \. segments, two lateral series, and two ventral white spots on first segment. Fore wing crimson-red, suffuse
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. EMPTREUIIA. LEUCOrLEL'];A. 423 937. Empyreuma lichas. Zygcena lichas, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. App. p. 605 (1781). Sphinx sangiiinom, Martyn, Tsyche, pi. 26. ff. 18, 19 (iued.); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 121. Head and thorax black-brown : antennae bluish, the tips orange : tegulae, shoulders, patagia, and coxa? with small white spots ; abdomen metallic greenish, with dorsal white spots on first two. Fig. 223.—Empyreuma lichas, J. \. segments, two lateral series, and two ventral white spots on first segment. Fore wing crimson-red, suffused with brownish except the costal fascia and base of inner margin. Hind wing crimson, the cilia blackish. Hah. Haiti {Tiveedie) ; Cuba ; Honduras. Exp. 44-56 millim. 938. Empyreuma pugione. Sphinx pucjione, Linn. Syst, Nat. i. 2. p. 807 (17()7); Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 122. Sphinx lichas, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 45. B (1775). Head and thorax blue-black; antennae fulvous at tips; abdomen dull metallic bluish, with subdorsal white patches on 3rd and 4th segments. Fore wing crimson suff'used with black, the veins and terminal area black with a slight bluish gloss. Hind wing crimson, with terminal black band. Hah. Jamaica (Gosse). Exp. 5U millim. Egg. Pale yellow, spherical with flattened base, with fine pen- tagonal reticulations. Larva pale yellow-brown, with subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of small fuscous-edged white spots; the somites bearing subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral warts with radiating hairs, the 2nd to terminal somites also with paired dorsal warts and small warts above the sublateral series ; the 2nd somite with long forwardly- directed hair on subdorsal warts, the subterminal segment with backwardly directed hair. Food-plant, Oleander. Genus LEUCOPLEURA, nov. Type, L. cucadma. Proboscis well developed ; palpi obliquely uplurncd to vertex of head, tlio 3rd joint short and porrect; antennte bi]>ectinate, witii moderate branches dilated at extremity and
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