BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. 
ZOOLOGIA. 
Class INSECTA. 
Order LEPIDOPTERA. 
Suborder HETEROCERA. 
Fam. SPHINGIDAi*. 
Subfam. MACROGLOSSINA. 
AELLOPUS. 
Aellopus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 131 (1816). 
Six species have been included in this genus, whereof four belong to South America 
and two to West Africa. It is doubtful, however, if the African forms are really con- 
generic, their narrow elongated bodies being very different from what is found in the 
American representatives of the genus. Of these latter two, or at most three, of the 
species are really distinct, the others being of doubtful value. 
1. Aellopus tantalus. 
Sphinx tantalus, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 361’. 
Aellopos tantalus, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. 11: t. 157. f. 1-4”. 
Macroglossa tantalus, Walk. Cat. viii. p. 88 °. 
Sphing titan, Cr. Pap. Ex. ii. p. 73, t. 142. f. F*. 
Macroglossa annulosum, Sw. Zool. Ill. iii. t. 1382. £. 1°. 
Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz (mus. Oaf.), Cordova (Riimeli), Mazatlan (HZ. Bawards), 
Valladolid, Yucatan (Gauwmer); British Honpuras, river Sarstoon (Blancaneauz) ; 
GuatEMALA, Duefias (Ff. D. G. & O. S., mus. Oxf.), Zapote, San Gerdénimo, Coban 
(Champion); Panama (Boucard, mus. D.).—AntvILLES, Jamaica ?, San Domingo 3, &c. ; 
CoLomBIA, Santa Marta (mus. D.); EcuaDor (mus. D.) ; Venezveta?; Guiana, Surinam’; 
Amazons, Para®; Braziu®, Rio (mus. D.). 
* In the arrangement of this family I have in a great measure followed that propounded by Mr. Butler in 
his paper on the Sphingide (Trans. Z. 8. ix. p. 511 e¢ seqq.). 
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