22 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Sphinx drupifera7-uin. A. & S. — Common at light, and on several kinds 



of flowers. 

 Sphinx Kalmice, A. & S. — Found with S. dritpiferarn?n. 

 Sphinx chcrsis, Hiibn.— The most common Sphinx in this locality ; taken 



at twilight on CEjiothera Lamar ckiana and Nicotia?ia affinis ; also 



bred on ash ; July. 

 Sphinx gordius, Cram. — Found on lilac and Tartarian honeysuckle, early 



in the evening. 

 Sphinx hiscitiosa, Clem. — Rare, on climbing honeysuckle, at twilight. 

 Dolba hylceus, Drury. — Rare, on CEnothera and honeysuckle, at twilight. 

 EUema Harrisii, Clem. — Rare, on honeysuckle, at twilight ; also at light, 



in June. 



ABNORMAL SPECIMEN OF THE GENUS SAMIA. 



BY W. F. KIRBY, LONDON, ENG. 



This remarkable specimen, which has puzzled every entomologist who 

 has seen it, was bred by M. Alfred Wailly from a cocoon received from 

 some part of North America. It may be a hybrid between 6". cecropia 

 and some other species, but if so, it is so different from all the other known 

 species, that it is difficult to guess with what it could have been crossed. 

 It is equally difficult to imagine that it is a new species. The specimen 

 is a female, and equals the largest specimens of S. cecropia in size, mea- 

 suring fully 6^ inches in expanse \ and the wings are more rounded and 

 less oblique than in cecropia. The body resembles that of cecropia, except 

 that the abdomen is banded with yellowish gray and black. The base of 

 the fore wings is brown, thickly scaled with white towards the costa ; 

 below this is a brick-red blotch, longer and narrower than in cecropia. 

 Beyond this is a white space, extending nearly from the base to one third 

 of the length of the wing on the inner margin, but curving up to the costa 

 in a rather narrow stripe. This is followed by a large irregular black 

 blotch, broad at the costa (where it is thickly dusted with gray) and the 

 narrow end extending to beyond the middle of the wing. On this stands 

 the large white kidney-shaped central spot, which is surrounded with red, 

 and divided by a reddish stripe at the outer end of the black blotch ; it 

 extends beyond it into a broad red white-dusted band, followed by a black 

 one, so very thickly dusted with yellowish gray that it appears of that 



