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lower rank in the Family. A'o generic separation of the Enropean 

 species of Smerintlius is made by Wallengren, hnt sucli is evidently 

 demanded. Although the European SDieriitfhus tiJiae is ennmer- 

 ated first by Latreille under his genns, yet it cannot be considered 

 his type while he cites ocellatvs under the same name, and Avhich 

 latter species we have separated as typical of the genns in our Cata- 

 logue. Laothoe Fiihv. and Delina Dahnan. appear to be cast for the 

 same species, and to be in reality, intended as = Smerinthns Lntr. 

 The former has been nsed i'or the European iHifuli, and Ave have 

 considered this species as the type. Nor does this arrangement in- 

 terfere in the slightest with Hiibner's Verzeichniss, a Avork to which 

 we Avonld accord the fullest anthority and weight. "We have 

 taken for Hiibner's genns Paonias the type P. excaecatus, which 

 (with Myops and Salicis) he includes on p. 142. This genus is (ex- 

 cluding Salicis as the type of Smerinthns) unrepresented in Europe, 

 and contains two, if not three, American species. Calasymbohis, 

 G rote, is also nnreprescnited in Europe; its type, Astylus, is not 

 mentioned by Iliibner. For the European tiliae, Hiibner's genus 

 Mimas must be retained; there are no described American species. 

 "VYe have already proposed to restrict Polyptychus Hdbner, to 

 Cramer's dentatus as the type. (]uite distinct from any of the other 

 species included under Polyptychus and more strongly marked, 

 perhaps, than any of the other Smerinthoid species, the American 

 jiiglandis has ailready been separated uiider Cressonia. 



Wallengren, unhappily (and unnecessarily), refers Philampelus, 

 Harris, as a synonym to Choerocampa. The proper type of this 

 genus is Ph ilampelus salellitiu. Harris (nee Linn.), Daplniis Pan- 

 dorus Hiil)ner; the genus is unrepresented in Europe. Wallengren's 

 idea is probably taken from Bnrmeister's fusion of the genera in the 

 " Sphingidae Brasiliens." Nor does Wallengren separate D. nerii, 

 as the type of Daphnis Huhner, as has been correctly done by Curtis. 

 Quite unnecessarily, Wallengren erects a new genus for the Euro- 

 pean Macroglossum stellatarum, already origin nlly considered as the 

 type of Scopoli's genus. AVallengren has, evio .>tly, taken the pre- 

 valent European idea of '•' Macroglossa," without exercising literary 

 research. For Hemaris Dahiuo) (to Avhicli Boisduval has referred 

 S. fuciformis as the type), AVallengren u^es the incorrectly written 

 term " Macroglossa." 



