208 CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 



The name of * Sphinx Vespiformis'' has little connection 

 with the subject of the essay further than its being the ori- 

 ginal name of the insect selected as an object whose place 

 in a natural system the author proposed to find. Concern- 

 ing the insect to which the name was strictly applicable 

 some doubts appeared to exist, and the author attempted 

 to show that it was synonymous with the JEgeria Asili- 

 formis of our cabinets. The insect is figured below. 



