SPHINX ALOPE. Alis dentatis fuscis, strigis dentatis nigris, posticis
fulvis apice latè nigris; abdomine nigro cingulis interruptis pallidis.
(Expans. Alar. 4 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Sphinx Alope, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Cramer_, 26. _tab._ 301. _fig._
G. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 362. _No._ 20. _Gmel. Linn. S. N._ 2375.
62.
HABITAT: Jamaica.
{53}_Upper Side._ Antennæ red brown above, white underneath. Head and
thorax dark brown; head and thorax with a black dorsal line. Abdomen
encircled with rings of brown and dark ash colour, divided on the top by
a dark ash-coloured line running from the thorax to the extremity.
Posterior wings dark brown coloured, having some dark irregular lines,
almost black, crossing them from the anterior to the posterior margin,
and a row of small black angular marks running along their external
margin; these wings are a little dentated. Posterior wings yellow, with a
deep black border.
_Under Side._ Abdomen dark ash-coloured. Anterior wings brown, spotted
along their external edges with long yellowish spots. Posterior wings
brown, with a deep border; the middle of the wings and abdominal edges
being yellow; a narrow black indented line begins at the abdominal
corners, and crossing the wings ends at the anterior margin below the
middle.
Fabricius, on the authority of Dr. Pflug, states that this insect frequents
the Carica Papaya. The larva is tailed, without hairs, the back cinereous
anteriorly, with a broad fascia of a brown colour, ocellated in the middle
and ending in a black spot. The chrysalis is brown, with red annuli and
striæ.