DEILEPHILA CHIRON. Alis anticis castaneis, fasciâ obliquâ pallidâ
utrinque fusco marginatâ, posticis nigris maculis quinque albidis.
(Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Sphinx Chiron, _Drury, App. vol._ 2.
HABITAT: Jamaica.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ and head chesnut; a flesh-coloured line encircles
the eyes, running to the shoulders, where it becomes white. Thorax
chesnut. Abdomen rather paler on the top; underneath very light clay
colour. Anterior wings sorrel chesnut, having two faint oblique waved
lines crossing them from the tips to the middle of the posterior edges,
where is a small cloud the colour of blue clay, and next the shoulders is
a small narrow cream-coloured mark. Posterior wings dark brown, with a
row of yellow cream-coloured spots running from the anal angle towards
the middle of the anterior margin.
_Under Side._ Breast and abdomen very pale clay colour. Anterior wings at
the base pale clay-coloured, towards the middle darker; from thence to
the tips prettily clouded with orange and clay-coloured marks, divided by
dark lines, and many small dark brown spots. Posterior wings along the
interior margin clay-coloured, and along the extreme part of the anterior
edges the same; the remainder of the wings dull orange, faintly shaded
and spotted with brown marks and dots.
{52}ZYGÆNA? THETIS.
Plate XXVI. fig. 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Crepuscularia? FAMILY: Zygænidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. ZYGÆNA? _Fabr._ Anthrocera, _Scop._ Sphinx, _Drury_.
ZYGÆNA? THETIS. Coerulea, thorace anticè rubro punctato, alis nigris,
anticis apice, posticis disco, hyalinis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Sphinx Thetis, _Linn. Mantiss_. 1. 539.
Zygæna Thetis, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 391. _No._ 17. _Gmel. Linn. S.
N._ 2393. 115. (Sphinx T.)
HABITAT: Jamaica.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Head and thorax black. On the neck are two
small scarlet spots just above the eyes, and one on each side below them.
Abdomen silvery shining blue, having a triangular black mark at the base.
Anterior wings dirty black, immaculate; tips whitish. Posterior wings
dirty black, with a white discoidal transparent cloud.
_Under Side._ Breast and sides dirty black. Abdomen white; its sides and
tip dirty black. Wings of the same colour as on the upper side.