GLAUCOPIS? ASTREAS. Alis subhyalinis albidis, maculâ mediâ apiceque
fuscis, thorace nigro maculato, abdomine roseo. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc.)
SYN. Sphinx Astreas, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
Noctua Astrea, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 2. _p._ 19. _No._ 35. _Gmel. Linn.
S. N._ 2534. 593.
HABITAT: Bengal (_Drury_). New Holland (_Fabricius_).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ filiform, light brown, being thickest in the
middle. Head cream-coloured, spotted with black. Neck the same, with a
red cleft in the middle, and a black spot on each side. Thorax
cream-coloured, spotted with black. Abdomen scarlet. Anterior wings
transparent, whereof a third next the tips is opake and of a light hair
colour, running about half way up the anterior edge of each wing; where
is a streak of the same colour running half way across the wing. Anterior
and posterior edges dark cream-coloured. Posterior wings transparent, the
anterior edges and upper corners being dark cream-coloured.
_Under Side._ Palpi white externally, but red within; the extremities
being black. Tongue curled up. Breast white, with a black spot on each
side. Legs red. Under sides of the thighs white. Abdomen cream colour;
having a narrow white streak on each side, whereon are several black
spots. Wings coloured as on the upper side.
This insect is evidently the type of a subgenus, sufficiently distinct from
any of the preceding.
{54}SYNTOMIS FENESTRATA.
Plate XXVIII. fig. 5.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Crepuscularia? FAMILY: Zygænidæ.
GENUS. SYNTOMIS, _Illig. Latr._ Zygæna, _Fabr._ Sphinx, _Drury_.
SYNTOMIS FENESTRATA. Alis fuscis, anticarum maculis quatuor, posticarum
unicâ hyalinis, abdomine fulvo nigroque annulato. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 2
lin.)
SYN. Sphinx fenestrata, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
Zygæna fenestrata, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 392. _No._ 21. _Gmel.
Linn. S. N._ 2394. 119. (Sphinx).
HABITAT: China.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ filiform, black, white at the tips, and thickest in
the middle. Head tawny yellow. Neck black. Thorax and abdomen tawny
yellow; the former having three black spots thereon, and the latter
encircled with six black rings. Anterior wings having four transparent
spots in each; the two next the shoulders being divided only by the
nerves, in one of which appears two dark spots, one next the shoulders,
and the other a quarter of an inch from it, crossing the transparent
part. All the edges of these wings are very dark brown, the external and
posterior ones being broadest. Posterior wings also having one large
transparent spot in each; all the edges of these wings brown, the
external and anterior ones being broadest, nerves yellow.
_Under Side._ Tongue curled up. Sides, breast, and abdomen yellow, with
black rings. Legs dark brown and yellow. Wings as on the upper side.