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species, having the anterior wings more or less falcate, and crossed by 

 fine, striate, pale lines, which are quite characteristic. This latter 

 group is well represented in Asia and Africa, to judge from authors, 

 where the species sometimes acquire argent metallic lines and tinges. 

 As to C. (Irancus Cramer, sp., quot'^d by Mr. Walker as occurring in 

 the West Indies, Cramer gives the habitat plainly as " Indes Orien- 

 tales." Cram. Exot. Vol. 2, p. 56. This habitat is erroneously trans- 

 lated by Mr. Walker, who has not identified the species. Dr. Clemens 

 copies Mr. Walker's erroneous habitat, evidently without having referred 

 to Cramer's work. The different genera in this Tribe are remarkable 

 in having green and brown species, while Mr. Grote has remarked that 

 certain larva belonging to this same Tribe show indiflFerently these two 

 " cosniical tints" at maturity. In the genus Oh(s, 0. choerihis is brown, 

 the rest more or less green. In Chserocampa, C irrorata Grote, and 

 generally speaking the species of the third group, are brown or brown- 

 ish. In Phi'lanjpelus, P. achemon and P. fi/jjJion assume a brownish 

 hue. etc. 



Deilephila intermedia, Kirby. 



This species, which is not yet identified, may be the same as D. cJin- 

 mpfntrH Harris, but for the present it is best to keep it distinct, since 

 Kirby's insufiieient diagnosis could hardly entitle it to take precedence 

 of Dr. Harris' species, though anterior in point of publication. The 

 description in the Fauna Am. Bor. reads as follows: ''This species is 

 intermediate between D. Euphorbia and D. gah'i, which last it most 

 resembles, but the anterior portion of the mesal stripe of the primary 

 wings is pale rose color; the fringes of their inner margin, and of the 

 posterior of the secondaries is white ; there is no series of white dots 

 on the back of the abdomen, and the ventral segments are fringed at 

 the apex with white hairs. This description was taken from an old 

 specimen, apparently somewhat faded." 



Deilephila lineata. 



Fabricius.iu his late works, himself regarded our species as identical 



with the European D. livornica. We refer to Mr. Grote's recent paper 



for remarks on the synonymy of this species, as well as on D. chanise- 



nrrii Harris. 



Philampelus vitis and Philampelus Linnei. 



Linnaeus is the first to describe a species of Sphinx under the spe- 

 cific name of cltU. His diagnosis reads as follows : " S. alis cineris 

 fusco variis: posticis margine interiore sanguineis." He refers to M. 

 Merian's fi<i;ure, T. 47, fi<r. 1, Ins. Surin., and adds: •' Alae inferiores 



