58 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Latreillan sense, and the extract of the Systenia Glossatorinn 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- 

 leplula, Sphinx, Acherontla and Smerinthus. 



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

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

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

 but scant recognition in Europe. 



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

 before 1818, is Jacob Hiibner's Verzeichniss 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 

 t(_> 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 modei'n" tendency to create genera 

 on insufficient characters, and there were lumpers and splitters in 

 those days as thei-e 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 (Hit a classification which, for mi- 

 nuteness of division and subdivision, is rivalled only by Mr. 8cudder's 

 modern classificatit)n of the Xi/inphalida' and Hesperidce. The result 

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

 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 Sphinges form Hiibner's second Phalanx, defined as fi)llows : 



Mouth and tongue prolonged and spiral, the palpi rather closely 

 appressed, the antennse lamellate. Primaries long and narrow, the 

 secondaries short and broad. Abdomen long and stout. 



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

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

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



Stirps II, Chrysaores, contains in Family A, Procris, here ap])lied 

 to Iiio stuttcis ; in Family B, Sy)itoml>< ; both used in our fauna, but 

 in the case of Procris in an entirely different sense. 



Stirps III, Glaucopes, and Stirps IV, Sphecomorphcp contain no 

 American genera. 



The second tribe is termed Hymenopterides, with the pal])i curved 

 ujjwards, hairy ; the anteniue hardly pectinated. Wings partly bare 

 of scales. Abdomen with a hrvish-like tuft at tijj. 



