Plate XXIX. fig. 1. [female].--fig. 2. [male].
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Crepuscularia. FAMILY: Sphingidæ. _Leach_.
GENUS. SPHINX, _Auctorum_.
SPHINX SATELLITA. Alis integris, fuscis badio griseoque variis, anticis
puncto nigro ocellari sesquialtero maculâque triangulari ad angulum
analem nigrâ; posticis basi griseis. (Expans. Alar. 4¼ unc. [male].--5½
unc. [female].)
SYN. Sphinx Satellita, _Linn. Mant. p._ 539. _Fab. Ent. Syst._ III. 1.
370. _No._ 42. _Gmel. Linn. S. N._ 2301. 74.
Sphinx Licaon, _Cramer_.?
HABITAT: Jamaica.
FEMALE.--_Upper Side._ Head and thorax pale olive brown, with dark brown
dorsal and lateral lines; the latter edged with white, extending to the
abdomen, where two small white streaks run obliquely across it. Abdomen
light olive brown, paler on its sides; with two rows of dark brown dorsal
spots, reaching almost to the extremity. Anterior wings olive grey; but
from the middle of the anterior margin runs a shade of olive brown,
ending at the external margin, and continuing towards the tips. Two small
black discoidal spots, and a large squarish spot on the middle of the
posterior margin of a very dark red brown; from whence to the shoulders
extends a shade of paler brown. Posterior wings, next the shoulders,
grey, but at the anal angle reddish ash colour; from whence runs a row of
small black spots, which lose themselves in a very dark, brown, olive
colour, occupying a large part of the wings near the exterior angle.
Cilia pale brown.
_Under Side._ Thorax, thighs, and abdomen dark brown. Wings reddish
brown, the posterior palest; and along the abdominal edges ash-coloured.
There are very few marks of any sort observable on {58}this side, except
a faint waved line which, crossing the superior and inferior wings, ends
near the anal angle.
MALE.--_Upper Side._ Head, thorax, abdomen, and anterior wings sandy
yellow. The shades and clouds, which in the female are of olive brown, in
this are of fine red brown; the two discoidal black spots being distinct.
Posterior wings, next the shoulders, grey, as in the female; but along
the external margin sandy yellow.
_Under Side._ The breast, abdomen, thighs, superior and inferior wings
are, as on the upper side, the same sandy yellow; the faint waved lines,
crossing both superior and inferior wings, being rather more conspicuous
than in the female.