Habitat: Bay of Honduras (Drury). "In America meridionali" (Fabr.).
Upper Side. Antennæ pectinated, and thickest in the middle. Head black, with a blue spot in front. Neck blue. Thorax black, with an orange spot on each shoulder. Abdomen black; smallest next the thorax, with a row of golden blue spots on each side, and another at top; at the extremity is placed a hairy bristle, about a quarter the length of the abdomen. Wings yellowish, and transparent. The anterior having a black narrow border running round all their edges, except the anterior ones; and in the middle of each is an oblong black spot, joining to the anterior edge, which reaches almost half across the wing. Posterior wings with a black border along the abdominal edges and the upper corners; the anterior and external edges having none.
Under Side. Palpi externally white, but internally black. Tongue curled up. Breast black, the sides being blue. Legs black. Thighs white within, and blue without. Abdomen, next the thorax, white; the remainder being black, with four white spots on each side; that next the anus being the smallest. Wings as on the upper side; except the anterior, which have a yellowish border running along the posterior edges.
The extremity of the body of the male is furnished with a villose tail, as long as the body.
AGLAOPE PLUMIPES.
Plate [XXVII]. fig. 3.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Crepuscularia? Family: Ægeriidæ, Steph.
Genus. Aglaope, Latr. Sphinx, Drury.
Aglaope Plumipes. Nigricans, thorace maculis abdomineque fasciis albis, alis immaculatis, tibiis posticis plumosis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.)
Syn. Sphinx plumipes, Drury, App. vol. 2.