PAPILIO. 



Prgan of tl^e fJew Jork pntomological piub. 



Vol. 1.] July, 1881. [No. 7. 



NOTES ON SOME NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



By Arthur G. Butler. 



Our good friend, Mr. Henry Edwards, has recently presented 

 to the British Museum a series of 115 Lepidoptera with pupa- 

 cases &c. ; and, as at the same time, he writes that a few notes on 

 these insects might prove interesting to the readers of " Papilio'' 

 I gladly forward observations on the Sphingidce, which (if accept- 

 able) I will supplement by remarks on the other groups. 



Hemaris CYNOGLOSSUM. H. Ediv. 



This species is nearly allied to the Texan insect to which I 

 gave the name of H. nietathetis. It differs in being slightly 

 smaller and with the external dark brown border of the primaries 

 of only two-thirds the width ; these appear to be the only note- 

 worthy distinctions between the two forms. 



Pterogon clarkIvE. Boisd. 



This species, of which we previously possessed specimens 

 presented by Lord Walsingham, although very similar in colora- 

 tion to P. cenotheriB of Europe, agrees better structurally with my 

 recently described genus Cinogon, differing from the latter prin- 

 cipally in its even less dentated wings and better developed anal 

 tuft. \{ Lepisesia victoria be conspecific with P. clarkice the gen- 

 eric name ought certainly to be retained for this species. The 

 name Proserpimis must be rejected altogether, as it is the orig- 

 inal name of P. CBuotJicrce; (which should therefore stand as Pter- 

 ogoji ^ proserpina' of Pallas). 



Deidamia inscripta. Harr. 



Seems, excepting in the form of secondaries, to be interme- 

 diate in structure between Lophiira contimia (of Brazil) and Am- 

 phio7i nessus: It also seems allied to Mimas and Cypa, two old 

 world genera of SmerinthincB. To which has it really most affinity ? 



Enyo lugubris. Linn. 



The example sent by Mr. Edwards was taken at Indian River, 



