CLEAR-WING MOTHS OF FAMILY AEGERIIDAE 173 



Mountains, Tex., 5,000 feet, October 17, 1928. No additional information 



could be obtained. 



THE AEGERIA GROUP 

 Genus AEGERIA Fabricius 



Aegeria Fabricius, in lUiger, Magazin fiir Insectenkunde, vol. 6, p. I J8, 1807. 



(Genotype, Sphinx apiformis Clerck; Europe, North America.) 

 Sphecia Hubner, Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterliiige, p. 127, 1819. ( jenotype. 



Sphinx crabraniformis Denis and Schiffermuller.) 



Poplar and willow wood borers. Tongue short, feeble. An .-nna en- 

 larged toward tip with an apical brush, in the male, bipectin te, each 

 pectination heavily ciliated ; in the female pectinations very shon Labial 

 palpus upright, strongly hairy, third joint pointed. Posteri >r tibiae 

 heavily hairy above. Forewing with veins 3 and 4 connate i r short- 

 stalked. Male genitalia with socii short, stout, upright ; harp^ s short, 

 with costal and dorsal edges parallel, apices bluntly pointed with patches 

 of heavy spines ; penis finely spined. Female genitalia with a sh rt duc- 

 tus; bursa oblong, in some specimens with a minute signum, sur' )unded 

 by a finely granulated area. 



KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF AEGERIA 



Thorax dark brown, with a large yellow mark on each side anteriorly. 



apiformis (( !erck) 



Thorax dark brown with a yellow line on tegula tibialis (I arris) 



Thorax black; abdomen black narrowly banded with yellow. 



tibialis melanoformis, new \ iriety 

 Thorax black; abdomen yellow, except the first segment and part of third i lack. 



tibialis variety pacifica (Hy. Edw rds) 



AEGERIA APIFORMIS (Clerck) 



Plate 3, Figure 22; Plate 11, Figures S3, 53a; Plate 16, Figure 83 



Sphinx apiformis Clerck, Icones insectorum rariorum cum nominibus eorum trivi 'i- 



bus, pi. 4, fig. 2, 1759. — Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 8 \, 



\767. 

 Sesia apiformis Fabricius, Systema entomologiae, p. 549, 1775. 

 Sphinx crabraniformis Denis and Schiffermuller, Ankiindigung eines Werkes vo:. 



den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend [Systematisches Verzeichniss der 



Schmetterlinge der Wienergegend], p. 305, 1775. 

 Aegeria apiformis Fabricius, in Illiger, Magazin fiir Insectenkunde, vol. 6. p. 288, 



1807. — Beutenmuller, Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 256, pi. 29, 



fig. 13, 1901. — McDuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the 



United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8688, 1939. 

 Sphecia apiformis Hubner, Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge, p. 127, 1819. 

 Sesia crabroniformis Olivier, Encyclopedic methodique, pi. 67, fig. 4, 1825. 

 Trochilium apiformis Stephens, Illustrations of British entomology, vol. 1, p. 137, 



1828. — Beutenmuller, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 5, p. 204, 1890. — 



Duncan, The naturalist's Ubrary, Entomology, vol. 4, p. 171, pi. 13, fig. 1, 1836. 



— Smith, Catalogue of insects found in New Jersey, p. 288, 1890. — Beuten- 



