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Oeilepliela lineata. 



Sphinx lineata, Fabricius, Sya. Ent. s. Ins. (1775.) 

 " daiccus, Cram., II. 41, pi. 125, fig. D. (1779.) 

 " lineata, Abbot, Smith Ins. Georgia 1.77, pi. 39. (1797.) 

 Deilephila daucus, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. I, 126, 4.11. (1828.) 

 " lineata, Harris, Cat. N. A. Sph. Sill. Journ. (1839.) 



" daucus, Walker. C. B. M. VIII, p. 171. (1856.) 



" lineata, Clemens, Syn. N. A. Sph. Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sei. p. 



143. (1859.) 

 " daucus, H-S. Corr. Blatt. Reg. ;■. .8. (1865.) 



" lineata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. i nil. Vol. 4, p. 319. (1865.) 



Two specimens, % and $ . 



Habitat.— {]vih-A, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil. 

 Nnmher 513 Poeys MSS. Catalogue. 



The specimens do not differ from a number of individuals taken in 

 different parts of the United States, the Territories and Canadas, that I 

 have examined. I give, after examination, the priority to Fabricius. 

 who intended our species, distinct from the European DeilepliUa livor- 

 nua. in his original description, which reads as follows: 



" Sphinx lineata : alls virescentibus ; fascia striisque albis ; posticis 

 nigris : fascia rubra. Habitat in America. Statura praecendentis. 

 Caput virescens. stria lateralibus alba. Thorax virescens, striis tribus 

 iilbis duplicatus. Abdomen cinereum,albo nigro-quemaculatum. Alse 

 anticae integerrimge, fascia media striisque sex fasciam secantibus ab- 

 breviatis, albis. Margo posticus einerascens. Subtus omnes cineras- 

 ceutes. atomis viridebus." 



The trivial name lineata has been given to the European D. livur- 

 iiica by certain authors, while from the above it is evident that Fabri- 

 cius intended the American and not the European species, a specimen 

 of which latter I have before me, and which differs from the present 

 species by the absence of the intermediate white stripe on the tegulae 

 as well as by the abdominal ornamentation, which latter character seems 

 not to have been hitherto dwelt upon. In the synonymy I have given 

 merely the citation of Fabricius' first notice of the species in his ''Sys- 

 teuia Entomologife sistens Insectorum classes, etc." Flensburgi et 

 Lipsiae. 1775. Deilephila lineata, Stephens 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. 1, 

 126, 3, pi. 12. fig. 1, refers to the European Deilephila livornica and 

 not to the present species. 



PHILAMPELUS. Harris. 

 Philampelus vitis. 



Sphinx vitis, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 801, No. 16. (1766.) 

 " Drury, Exot. 1, 60, PI. 28, fig. 1. (1770.) 

 " Fabricius, Sp. Ins. II, 147, 35. (1781.) 

 " '• Cram. Exot. Ill, pi. 267, fig. C. (1782.) 



