122 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Q.om.'pz.xe& Eziproserpifius I am satisfied that this is not Lipisesia; it is 

 made a distinct section of Macroglossa by Boisduval ; it is our nearest 

 genus to Macroglossa. I have compared M. stellatarimi with the species 

 of Hemaris. Not only the opaque wings, but the vestiture, tuftings, 

 head, neuration, give comparative differences which I set down as gen- 

 eric. It has been one of my studies, and I beHeve I am even the first 

 writer to correct the statement that the European Hemaris has a vem on 

 the cell ; on removing the bar of scales I found no vein as described in 

 European text books of ten or more years ago. We have no true Macro- 

 glossa and no true Acherontia in North America, though both are asserted. 

 The remaining genera have the wings angulate, except Arctotiotus and 

 Cautethia. These are : the genus to which gaurae belongs, Amphion, 

 Thyreus and Deidamia. If Prof Fernald will examine the primaries of 

 these three last genera, he will find them very like, also the body tuftings, 

 though the abdomen is elongated in Deidamia, and has lost the plump 

 typical Macroglossian form. But the larva has not the cordate head of 

 Smerinthus, and I cannot class the moth with this latter, notwithstanding 

 what Butler says. The fact that Deilephila also pupates like the first 

 group and does not enter the ground, that the flight is often diurnal, the 

 colors vivid, make me bring the Chxrocampini in here. It is a notice- 

 able fact that the lower genera of the Macroglossinse and many Chcero- 

 campinae feed on the grape. I have nothing to say upon these genera of 

 the second group except that I believe Ampelophaga to be older than 

 Every X ; if therefore Myron and Versicolor are congeneric, they may 

 both be referred to this genus of Bremer's ; while for Chcerilus we may 

 retain Everyx. Having studied extra-limital Chcerocampid forms with 

 angulated wings, I discovered an Ambulyx from Brazil with eye-spots like 

 a Smerinthus, and I look upon this genus as a sort of passage to the 

 Smerinthinse in consequence, aided by the sunken head, brown colors with 

 roseate patches, etc. The Smerinthinse feed as larvae on fruit and nut 

 trees. We have one true Smerinthus, congeneric with ocellatus of Europe, 

 viz., ophthalmicus from California. Then we have a type which deviates 

 in small details and is represented by geminatiis, having a representative 

 in Asia Minor, as Butler tells us. Prof Fernald points out that Cerisyi 

 agrees with Calasymbolus Astylus in antennal structure, but I never saw 

 Cerisyi, which, from the figure of Kirby, seemed to me like geminatus, 

 with which, if I remember rightly, Kirby compared it. Probably there is 

 nothing like Astylus, Cerisyi or myops in the Old World, and it would be 



