58 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Latreillaii sense, and the extract of the Systema Glossatorum in 

 " Illiger's Magazine" is referred to and again abstracted. 



In the fourth volume of the same work, issued in 1816, he gives a 

 new scheme of classification, which, so far as the present family is 

 concerned, resulted in the adoption of the genera Macroglosm, Del- 

 lephila, Sphinx, Acherontia and Smerinthns. 



In the same year Dalraan, in the " Vetensk. Akad. Handl," pro- 

 posed the genus Hemaris for the European clear winged species fuci- 

 formis and bombyllformis, a genus, by-the-bye, which has met with 

 but scant recognition in Europe. 



Dated the same year, but as to the Sphingidie certainly not issued 

 before 1818, is Jacob Hiibner's Vei'zeiehniss bekannter Schmetter- 

 linge. This is the first time since Fabricius, that an undertaking 

 was made to bring together all the described species of the order and 

 to propose a consistent general classification. It may be of interest, 

 too, in this connection to remark that the journals of that period 

 inveighed fiercely against " the modern" tendency to create genera 

 on insufiicient characters, and there were lumpers and splitters in 

 those days as there are at present. In view of this loudly expressed 

 tendency it certainly required an extraordinary man to calmly ignore 

 the feeling of his age and bring out a classification which, for mi- 

 nuteness of division and subdivision, is rivalled only by Mr. Scudder's 

 modern classification of the Ni/mphalidce and Hesperuke. The result 

 was that the work was utterly disregarded by Hiibner's contempo- 

 raries, Stephens first bringing portions of it into use, and by reprint- 

 ing a portion of it, bringing it to the knowledge of English students. 



The SpHiN(iES form Hiibner's second Phalanx, defined as follows : 



Mouth and tongue prolonged and spiral, the palpi rather closely 

 appressed, the antennae lamellate. Priniaries long and mirrow, the 

 secondaries short and broad. Abdomen long and stout. 



In this Phalanx the first tribe is the Papillonldes, with the tongue 

 moderate, the antennae thickened toward tip, palpi small and pointed. 

 The first stirps is Zygcence, containing no N. A, species. 



Stirps II, Chrysaores, contains in Family A, Procris, here applied 

 to Iiio statlcis ; in Family B, Syntomis ; both used in our fauna, but 

 in the case of Procris in an entirely different sense. 



Stirps III, Glaucopes, and Stirps IV, Sj)hecomorphcp, contain no 

 American genera. 



The second tribe is termed Hymenopterides, with the palpi curved 

 upwards, hairy ; the anteniue hardly pectinated. AVings partly bare 

 of scales. Abdomen with a bi-ush-like tuft at tip. 



