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LXXXI. SPHINX.— Typns : ocrllata. 



Sphinx Linnt', Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 489 (1758) (partim ; type : oc'lUitu). 



S/jertnim Scopoli, Iiilr. Hid. Nat. iii. p. 413 (1777) (partim ; includes type of S/ihiiix). 



Smeriiitliiia Latreille, ///«/. Nat. Crust. Iii.i. iii. p. 401 (IHD'i) (partim ; includes type of Sphinx). 



Liiiit/inr¥a.hric\us, in Illig., .^fnl|. Eiil. vi. p. 287 (I8l)7) (partim : includes type of Sphinx). 



DiJiita Dalman, Kum/l. Vit. Ak: Ham!!, x.x.xvii. p. 21l' (181G) (partim ; includes type of Sphinx). 



/'(toiiia.t Hiibner, Verz. hek. Schm. p. 142 (1822) (partim ; includes type of Sphinx). 



Miriiithii.t (!) Meigen, Hamlh. Schm. p. 100 (1827) (partim ; correct, of Smfrinlhii.i !). 



Eiixmeriiitliiis Grote, Camid. Ent. ix. p. 132 (1877) (type : januiiceiinix). 



Calnsymliolus Grote {mm id., 1877), Uau-k Mathx N. Am. p. 34 (1886). 



Ciihinyiiiliohis Cojiinnieriiithu.<i Grote, I.e. p. 3.") (188(j) (type : cerisyi). 



Cnpia><m,ri,ilhHs (I), Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 712 (1892). 



Cypii. Hampson («'-» Walker, 1850), Jmirn. Bum/iay N. II. Sm: xiii. p. 38 (1900). 



D-nhlia Tutt, Brit. Lep. iii. p. 386 (1902) {>in„i. mid.). 



Bellia id.. I.e. {num. niitl.). 



Nirhohoiiia Tutt, I.': (num. niul.). 



c??. Tongue very weak and sliort. Piilpus small in ?, larger in S. Ainlomon 

 spiuose all over dorsally, the spines very weak, dense at and near the apical edges 

 of the segments : no broad under-scales on the tergites. Eetinac.nhim absent ; 

 frennlnm rednoed, the bristle of S short bnt rather stout, the bristles of ¥ thin, 

 hair-l^ke. Pnlvillns and paronychinm present. Tibiae not spinose : anterior tibia 

 with or without apical thorn ; one ymr of spurs to hindtibia. Hindwing red for the 

 greater })art. 



c?. Antenna more distinctly dilated laterad than in Amoi'jj/ui, sometimes sub- 

 jiectinate, or even pectinate. Tenth abdominal tergite rounded at end, or feebly 

 sinuate {caecus); steruite triangular, simple. Harpe simple, rounded or obtusely 

 ])ointed at end, not. divided as in Amorp/ta. Penis-sheath with one or two conical 

 teeth at end, pointing laterad. 



?. Antenna (PI. LX. f. 14 — 17) with traces of the lateral expansions of c?. 

 Vaginal plate membranaceous, without a distinct ridge in front of the vaginal cavity, 

 or the ridge is more or less wrinkled, not strongly chitinised. 



Larva granulose, head triangular ; horn tuberculated ; green, with white or 

 yellowish side-bands, often spotted with red. — Food-plants : Foj/ii///s, Pniint.'i, 

 •'Salix, and other trees. 



Pupa stout, more or less rugulose and punctured, somewhat glossy, sheath of 

 antennae rather broad in both sexes. 



Hab. Palaearctic and Nearctic Regions. 



Six species. 



According to what we have said in the introduction, the type of Sphinx is 

 ocellatn. Synonymous with Sjihinx are the generic names Ijiotlioi', Dilina, and 

 Paoma.H, which have all occllata for types. The Grotean genus Kusmerintlius, 

 reduced to the rank of a subgenus by its author in 1886, is l)ased npon one Neari^tic 

 species {jamaicensis) which differs in the d' -antenna from all the allied forms, and 

 on some Palaearctic species which are not very nearly related to jumaicensis. There 

 is some reason to separate jamaicensis from the other species, and we should not 

 reject Eiismcrinthus as a genus if there was a character, apart from colour, by 

 which the ? could be distinguished. This jamaicensis is, in the development of the 

 (^-antenna, the liighest species, the long pectinations being an exaggeration of the 

 short side-processes or feeble dilatations found in the other members of the genus 

 Sphinx. 



