SPHINX STRIGILES. Alis integerrimis griseis, margine externo anticarum
obscuro; posticis fulvis strigis tribus transversis fuscis. (Expans.
Alar. 5 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Sphinx Strigiles, _Linn. Mant. p._ 538. _Cramer, tab._ 106. _f._ B.
_Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 364. _No._ 26. _Gmel. Linn. S. N._ 2377. _No._
66.
HABITAT: Jamaica.
_Upper Side._ Head, thorax, and abdomen fawn-coloured; having on each
abdominal segment a semicircle of a paler colour. A brown red spot is
placed on each side the thorax, near the base of the upper wings, which
are fawn-coloured; having a round spot of olive brown on each near the
shoulders, and another on the middle of the posterior margin, between
which and the anterior angle is a patch of a blueish brown; from this
angle to the tip runs a small narrow border of yellow brown, with several
short, faint, brown circular marks placed on different parts of the wing.
Posterior wings pale orange; having three brown, narrow, waved lines
crossing them in the middle, and with a narrow brown border.
_Under Side._ The mouth, thorax, thighs, abdomen, superior and inferior
wings are all of a red clay colour. The border, along the external margin
of the anterior wing, is of a much paler colour. Several reddish brown
lines and marks are also placed on different parts of the wings.