( 69) 



b. P. Si'.rfti Si'.rfn. 



Sjihinx sexta Johansson, I.e. 



SpIiUiJ- riiroliiiii Linne, Fabr. et alia, /./. c.r. (partial) ; Drury, Illm^tr. fC.r. /nx. i. p. .02 t. 52. f. 1 i^ 



Index (1771-73) (X. York) ; Curt., Brit. Eiit. v. 19.5 (1S28) (England ; larva, imago) ; Steph., 



lllustr. Brit. Eiit., HiiitM. i. p. 118 (1828) ; Abb. & Smith, Leji. Geon/ia i. p. G;>. t. 33 (1797) ; 



Harris, in Sillim., Jmirti. Sc. ci- Art xxxvi. p. 294. n. 2 (1839) (partim V including ijiiinqiit- 



muctilalus) ; Glov., Rf/i. U. St. Dept. Agrk. p. 157 (1873) (larva and pupa, fig.) ; Harris, Ins. Inj. 



TV(/.,ed. Flint, p. 322. figs. 145-47 (1803) (larva, pupa) : Leydy, P/v.c. A<: X. Sci. Phihid. 



p. 237 (1882) (hfe hist.) : French, Trrni-^. D^pt. Af/r. lUin. xv. p. 108 (1877) (larva) : Mart., 



ibid, xviii. p. 103 (1880) (larva) ; Coq., ibid. p. 158 (1880) (larva) ; Pilate, r,(pilio ii. p. 00 



(1882) (Dayton, O.; common) ; Kent, in Riley, Ins. Life ii. p. 283 (1891) (Mi.ssissippi, larva 



abund.) ; id., I.e. iii. p. 338 (1892) (Roxie ; common). 

 Phhgethuntim can/liim, Hiibner, I.e. (partim): Crroto, Bidl. Buff. Sue. X. Sri. iii. p. 225 (1870) ; 



Fern., S2)hiii!i. X. Engl. p. 31. n. 11 (1880): Grote, Hinrlc Moths X.Am. p. 40 (1880) (partim); 



Edw., 5w//. U.S. Xat. .Mus. xxxv. p. 40 (1S89) (liter rel. to transf.) : Beutenm., ii«//. Am. 



Jfus. ^. 77. vii. p. 298. t. 4. f. 4. (/.) (1895). 

 Sjthinr cciroliims (!), Emmons, Xat. Bid. X.Y. p. 218. t. 40. f. 10 (1854) 



Sjihinr nicotiaime Mendtrie's, Etium. Corp. Aiiim. 2fus. Petr., Lep. p. 89. u. 1480 (1857) (Am. sept.). 

 .UiierosilK Carolina, Clemens, Jourti. Ac. A. Sci. Philad. iv. p. 105. n. 59. (1859) (pt.) ; id., in Morris, 



Sijn. Lep. X. Am. p. 189 (1802) ; Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. X. Sci. ii. p. 227 (1875) (pt.) ; id., 



C(i>ia>l. Eiit. iii. p. 101 (1871) (Alabama): Thaxt., Psyche i. p. .30 (1874) (Newton, Mass., vii.) ; 



Edw., Proc. Calif. Ac. vi. p. 92 (187G) (on tobacco, Calif.); Behr., Papiliu ii. p. 2 (1882) 



(California). 

 *Sphiii.r bjcopersiei Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep- Tlel. i. p. 71. n. 2 (1875) (Calif.) : Edw., Ent. Amer. 



iii. p. 222 (1888) (Calif.). 

 Protoparce Carolina, Butler, Trans. Zool. SocLmid. ix. p. C07. n. 11 (1877) (pt.) : Smith, Trans. 



Amer. Ent. Sac. xv. p. 107 (1888) (partim) : Moff., Canad. Eid. xxix. p. 177 (1897) (London, 



Canada) ; Trum., Eid. Xeu-s viii. p. 27 (1897) (S. Dakota) : How., Yearh. U. St. D,pl. Age. 



p. 126 (1898). 

 Maerosila {Sphin.r) qninquemaeulata, Mann, Psyche ii. p. 75 (1877) (partim : descr. of larva). 

 Phlegethontius sexta, Kirby, Cut. Lep. Het. i. p. 688. n. 13 (1892) (partim). 



i ? . The wliite submargiual zigzag Hue of the forewing is, as a rule, very 

 prouounced. The black bauds of the hindwing vary in width, and the middle ones 

 also in position, the white interspaces are often as much shaded with blackish 

 brown as in jamaicensis, from which some Central American specimens are not 

 distingnishable. 



S. Dentate lobe of liarpe broad (PI. XXXVI. f. 4) ; but in one of our Orizaba 

 individuals (f. 6) it is as narrow as in the South American ]>aphm. 



Larva : the side-bauds bordered by a vow of black transverse dots. IMexican 

 specimens not described ; ? if identical with N'orth American. 



Ilah. Canada (rarely, straggler) to Honduras, westward to the Pacific. 



Boisduval's h/copersici is based on specimens from California with the white 

 markings of the forewing prominent. Our Californian examples are- Jiot different 

 from most of the eastern individuals. 



In the Triug Museum a series of larvae and pnpae, and nij odd specimens from 

 (Canada, the United States, Mexico. 



el. P. sexta pupil u.^. 



Merian, Ins. Siiriti. t. 57 (1705) {I., p., /.). 



Sjihin.t: paphus Cramer, Pap. Ex. iii. p. 39 t. 210. f. B (1779) (Surinam) : Goeze, Ent. Beytr. iii. 2. 



p. 226. n. 82 (1780) ; Boisd., Cons. Lep. Guutemala p. 74 (1870); id., Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. 



i. p. 72. n. 3 (1875) (Guiana) ; Moschl., Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. xxvi. p. 346 (1876) 



(Surinam) ; Burm., Descr. Rep. Arg. v. p. 319. n. 1 (1878) (partim ; larva). 

 Phlegethontius paphus, Riibner, Verz. bek. Schm. p. 140. n. 1504 (1822): Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. 



p. 689. n. 30 (1892) ; Bonningh., 7ns xii. p. 110. n. 3 (1899) (Rio de J.vn.). 



