52 SMERINTHUS. 



Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. V, p. IGO, 185, (1865); List I>cp. X. Am. I, p. iv, (1868.) 



Packard, (iuide, Ins., p. 275, (1869.) Linluer, 24th Report, N. Y. State, Mus. Xat. 



Hist., p. 119, (1870.) Grote, Bull. BufF. Soc. Nat. Sc, Vol. I, p. 2.3, (1873.) 

 Sinerinlhus Gtminata, Harris, Cat. Ins. Mass. in Hep. Geo. Bot. & Zool. of Mass., (1835); Sill. 



Am. Jnl. Sc., Vol. 36, p. 291, (1839.) 

 Var. .Iam.vicexsis, Drurv, {Sphuix Ocellatm JamalKns!'^, ) 111. Ex. Ent., Vol. II, p. 43, t. 25, 



(1773.) Smmnthus J., Wcs(woo(J, Drury III. Ex. Ent., Vol. II, p. 47, t. 25, (1837); 



Grote <(• liobinson, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. V, p. 160, (1865); Lintner, 24th 



Report, N. Y. State, Mus. Xat. Hist., p. 123, (1870.) 



OiTHALMicus, Boisihival, Annales, Soc. Ent. de France, t. Ill, 3me ser. xxxii, (1855.) C/£meris, Jnl. 

 Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., p. 184, (1859.) Morris, Syn., p. 211, n. 5, (1862.) Grote 

 A- liobinson, Proc P^nt. Soc, Phila., Vol. V, p. 160,(1865); List Lcp. X. Am., 

 I, p. iv, (1S68.) Lintner, 24th Report, N. Y. State, Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 12-5, (1870.) 

 Grote, Bull. Butf. Soc Nat. Sc, I, p. 23, (1873.) 



Ckiu.'^yi, Kirby, Fauna Boreali Americana, Vol. IV, p. 302, t. 4, f. 4, (1837.) Lintner, 24th Report, X. Y. 

 State, Mus. Xat. Hist., p. 124, (1870.) 

 Smerinthu-s Cerisii, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., \(>\. \, p. 40, (1865) ; Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat 

 Sc, I, p. 23, (1873.) Grote & Robinson, Proc Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. V, p. 160, 

 (1865); Li,st Lep. X. Am., I, p. iv, (1868.) 



MODE.STA, Harris, Sill. Am. Jul. Sc & Art, Vol. 36, p. 292, (1839); Agassiz' Lake Superior, p. 388, t. 7, 

 (1850.) Clemens, Jnl. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., p. 183, (1859.) Horns, Syn., p. 210, 

 n. .3, (1862.) 



Smerinthus Modestus, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Lep. 8, p. 248, (1856.) Grote & liobinson, Proc. 

 Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. V, p. 161, 18-5, (1865); List Lep. N. Am. I, p. iv, (1868.) 



Smerinthus Princeps, Walkei-, Cat. Brit. Mus. Lep. 8, p. 255, (1856.) 



Laothoe Modesto, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc Nat. Sc. I, p. 24, (1873.) 



Ill ISlfi Iliibiier in liis ^'erzeic]lnisz Bekannter Schniclterlinge dividod and .«ub-dividcil tlie Smeriiitlil into several grouiw and 

 gonora. His fir.-it .sub-family, I)c-ntati, comprisfd llie genera Colaces and I'olvptyclius, and tlie second, An^ulali, contained Taonias and 

 Maimanles; Polvptychns was for tlie reception of the plain grey species .siicli as Dentatus ( 'r. and .Jnglandis Alil). & 8., whil.st Paonias 

 wa.s for tlie species having the inferiors ornamented with eye-like spots, of which Ocellata L., and Kxcaecata Abb. & S. were types. 

 But in this Ilubner was no more felicitious than in (lie numberless other instances in which he pursued the .same course ; in fact .so few 

 admired the system that it fell into almost entire disuse, until within the present year, when, Mr. Cirote very injudiciously attempted 

 to revive it, with addition.s of his own, in his Catalogue of the Sph. of X. Am., published in the I'ulletin of the Kuilalo Society, in which 

 the uiiforlunalc Smerinthi are treated in this wi,-c on p. 23, 24. 



"Tribe, ANfiii.ATi //»6ncr. SMERINTIIl'S, Latreille (1800.) 



PAONIAS, Ilubner (ISIG.) Type: Sphinx Occllatus, Linnofui. 



Type: Siihin.x Excaecaliis, ,lMu( <(• .SihiV/i. Ophthalmicus, Boiidurat. 



California. 

 !• .KC.ux-.VTUs, //»4aer. (Jemi.vatus, Say. 



Sphinx Ercaecatuf, Ah\>ot & Smith. Canada,- Mass.icliusetts; New York; Pennsylvania. 



Canada; Mas.sachuselts; New York ; Southern Stales. Cerisii, Kirby. 



„ /-, IIudsoir.s Bay Territory (Kennicott.) 



Pennsylvania (Aiith. Geyer.) An spec, pracc? Tribe: Dentatae (JTubner.) 



Myops, IMner. LAOTHOE, Fabriciiis restr. (1807.) 



Sphinx Myops, Abbot & Smith. Type: Sphinx Populi, Linnaeus. 



Smcn'n/Atts jBosacaerum, Boisduval. ,. „„^_,. 



New York; Pennsylvania; Southern States. ' " ' ' 5,„^„.„,^„, 3^„j^,„^ „„.,,;, 



CALASYMBOIA-S, Grote (1873.) S,nerinthus Princeps, \\:>\Uv. ^ 



Type, Sphinx Astyhis, Drury. Lake Superior ; Canada; Ma.s.sachuselts ; New \ork. 



ASTYIA'S. 



Sphin)- Aslylus. Drurv. „ „ , . 



Sphinx lo, lioisdnvaf. Jcglakdis, Grote <C- Robinson. 



CRESSONIA, Grote & Bobimon (18C.5.) 



'ype ; Sphinx Juglandis, Abbot it Smith. 



Smerinthus Intei/errima, Harris. Sphinx Jntjlandis, .\bbot & Smith. 



Massachusetts; New York ; Pennsylvania. Canada; Ma.ssachiisetts ; New York ; Southern States." 



From the above, which I have quoted in full, it will be seen that the compiler has not been more fortunate in this arrangement than 

 was the great originator of it, in whose footsteps he endeavors to tread. The genus Cal.a.synibolus, erected for Astylus, he says : 

 "diil'ers from Paonias in the shape of the secondaries, and from Smerinthus in antennal structure," in what that dillerence of antennal 

 structure consists the student is not informed; I, for my part would immensely like to know, for after a patient examination of all the 

 species of this country, as well as of various Exotics, I am forced to the conclusion that any real material difference in the structure 

 exbts not in the antennae of the Smerinlhi but in the fervid imagination of the founder of the Calasymbolus and Cressonia Dynasties. 



