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whole length bv a broad nearly even band or margin of reddish brown, Ihe same colour as on the under side of the usual female 

 form. 



Although there was some slight disarrangement in the genera! sexual make-up of this individual still it had sense enough to 

 assert its manhood, though bv so doing it sacrificed both liberty and life ; it (lew into an open window attracted by a captive virgin female 

 which had that day emerged from the chrysalis. 



For bolli the above remarkable insects, as well as numberless other kindnesses extending through long years, am 1 indebted to 

 my old friend Herman .Sachs who bred the first and captured the second at his residence in Hoboken, New jersey, some years ago; 

 and as I now gaze at them many and many a pleasant recollection ari.ses of the days of "auld lang .syne" 



From the state a{ Maine I received a male example in which the median or .second submarginal line is crimson like the ou'ter 

 one instead of black as in all other examples I have ever seen. 



Another male, from Maryland, has the ocellus of secondaries entirely black without any shining blue, or white discal mark. 



Two females have the lower edge of the ocellus of secondaries resting on the black transverse line. 



One female has upper surface of primaries puiplisb grey, transverse lines and discal marks white. Ocellus of secondaries of 

 immense size filling nearly the whole space interior to the black line ; under surface of this example is greyish yellow. It is from Ohio. 



A female in Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, is of small size and has the ocellus of secondaries suffused and irregularly spread 

 over a great portion of the wii>g. 



In collection of Mr. J. Meyer of Brooklyn is a female of very large size in which the upper side primaries are ornamented with 

 rays of darker colour which start from the ba.se and diverge outwards wider and wider until their points reach nearly to the exterior 

 margin. 



In Mr. Neumcegen's coll., also in my own, are female examples with the upper side of primaries pale grey or ashen; one of 

 these was taken near Morristown, N. Jersey, the other I bred from larva found here. 



HYPERCHIRIA LILITH. Nov. Sp. 



(PLATE XV, FIG. 17 ?.) /_,„--^ 



Fkmai,e. Expand.^* 2| inches. 



Head, tliorax and legs dark Indian red; ahdonien .same eolour with the exception that the segments 

 above are edged with a somewiiat yelloAvish line. 



Upper surfaee ; primaries dark reddish hrown more inclined to red at the base, and .siimewhat paler and 

 tinged with grey at enter margin; discal mark scarcely discernible; a darker inconspicuous tran,sverse median 

 line or rather shade. Sccondtiries brownish not as dark as the primaries, broadly bordered at abdominal margin 

 with dull crimson; a large central ocellus formed liy a distinct black ring enclosing shining blue or steel 

 colour and with a sratill white discal mark, the black and blue do not merge into each other as in //. Varia 

 but the l)lack ring is not wide and is clear and distinct on its inner edge as on the outer ; outside the ocellus is 

 a broad black line, between this latter and the exterior margin is another broader line of reddish brown; the 

 exterior margin is also bordered with the same colour. 



Under surface dark Indian red shaded towards exterior margins with brownish ; transverse lines as in 

 H. ^'aria^ on ]>rimaries a very large bkick oval di.scal sj)ot with small white round spot in centre, on seconda- 

 ries a small white discal spot. 



Hab. Georgia. 



I have only had the opportunity of examining tlie females, of whicli there were eight or nine, all bred at one time; the male, 

 of which there were only a few examples, was dtscribed to me as being much like the female, but the primaries darker or more grey- 

 ish and the secondaries [jaler. Of the eight or nine females bre<l i have exaujineif six, and all are remarkablv alike, presenting 

 scarcely any diffijrence from each other in size, .shape or colour. The wings are broader and shorter than in If. Varia, which is the 

 nearest allied species. My friend did not lake any particular note of the larva more than that they were of the Varia tvpeand that he 

 found them feeding on some small weed which soon gave out, lie then fed them on wild cherry which they ate readily until thev were 

 ready to change into the chrysalis state. This could scarce he a local form of H. Varia as the latter species I received from the same 

 locality and bred at .same time in large numbers of both sexes which were in all respects the same as those found in Penna., N. York 

 and other more northern lucalities. I have every hope that I will in a future plate be able to depict the male of this beautiful insectas 

 my informant is confident that he has in chrysalis state another brood of it. 



I have named this species after a lady of considerable celebrity in the olden time long ago, to wit: No less a per.sonage than 

 .\dam's first wife Lilith, the mother of the giants, who was eventually turned into a demon, as has been not unfrequently the case 

 witli members of her sex in subsequent times, not long ago. 



ON THE NORTH AMERICAN SPHINGID.E IN MR. A. G. BUTLER'S REVISION OF THAT 

 FAMILY PUBLISHED IN TRANS. ZOOL. SOC, LOND., VOL. IX., PART 10, (1877). 



Among the various works of interest to the Entomologist that have of late years appeared, two come in for considerable atten- 

 tion : the " Sphingides, Sesiides, Caslnides," by Dr. Eoifd\ival (1874), and the "Revision of the .Sphingidae," by Mr. Butler (1877); 

 as the latter is later and in a measure a revision of the former, I will more jiarticularly direct my attention and remarks to its contents, 

 contenting myself for the present by expressing my delight at the wonderful correctness of the drawing and beauty of colouring of the 

 figures in the work of Dr. Boisduval. 



Page 517, No. "2 Lepisesia victoria, Grote Bull. BufF. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, p. 147, (1874). British Columbia." 

 Was described from a faded example of Ptcrogon Clarkia, Bdl. In appendix p. 634 Butler makes the correction in a measure, 

 thus: "Said to be identical with Pterocjon clarkim of Boisduval ; see Bull. Bufi'. Soc, ii, p. 225." 

 On p. HI of this work 1 have slightly alluded to the above. 



