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.
SYNTOMIS FENESTRATA.
Plate [XXVIII]. fig. 5.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Crepuscularia? Family: Zygænidæ.
Genus. Syntomis, Illig. Latr. Zygæna, Fabr. Sphinx, Drury.