144 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 



Sphinx baruta Berg., Am. Soc. Argent, xv, p. 151, 1883. 



Sphinx cossoides Rothsch., Nov. Zool. i, p. 94, pi. vii, f. 22, 1894. 

 On page 542 of vol. i, of "Novitate-s Zoologicae," Mr Roths- 

 child calls attention to the identity of his S. cossoides with Hy- 

 loicus reevii Druce, but he does not give the complete synonymy. 



Lapara bombycoides. 



Lapara boinbycoides Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. viii, p. 232 (1856). 



Ellema harrisii Clem., Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil, iv, p. 188 (1856). 

 After carefully comparing my own specimens and those of the 

 B. M. with Walker's type in the Saunder's coll. at Oxford, I can 

 find not even varietal reasons for separating the above. 



Dilophonota msrianas. 



Erinnyis meriance Grote, Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil, v, p. 75, t. 2, f. 2, 1885. 

 Anceryx omphalecs Bd., Lep. Guat. p. 72 (1870). 

 With the exception of Prof. J. B. Smith, in his monograph of 

 the Sphingidee of N. A., the English writing Entomologists have 

 failed to notice that Boisduval himself draws attention to the 

 above synonymy in the Sp. Gen. Het. i, p. 128. As mentioned 

 by Mr. Rothschild in Nov. Zool. i, p. 541, D. w^rzVzw^ is a race 

 ot D. lassauxii Bd., Anceryx lassauxii Bd., Bui. Soc. Ent. 

 France (3), vii, p. 157(1859), which has the secondaries entirely 

 black, all intermediate forms being found. 



Dilophonata alope. 



Sphinx alope Dru., 111. Ex. Ent. i, t. 27, fig. i (1773). 

 Sphinx fasciata Swains., Zool. 111. iii, t. 150, f. 2 (1823). 

 Auceryx edwardsii But!., Papilio i, p. 105 (iSSi). 

 The above represent our species, which is extremely abundant 

 throughout tropical America. 



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CALIFORNIA LEPIDOPTERA. 



By MAX ALBRIGHT, Military Home, Los Angeles Co. 



The December number of the ENT. NEWS contains a complaint 

 that so few specimens are entering cabinets, which is very much 

 to be regretted. As for myself, my hobby is Lepidoptera, and 

 having taken up my neglected studies, only two years ago, I 

 have explored the vincinity of this Home, and between Los 

 Angeles and Santa Monica to some extent, and send a list of 

 some which were taken by myself and which have been identified 

 either by Dr. H. Strecker, of Reading, Pa., or by Prof. H. H. 



