140 ON SOME X. AMERICAN SPHINGID.IC IX A. G. BITLEK'S REVISION. 



Page o 18, No. "2, Uemaris fitmosa. Mucroyiossa fumom, Strwker, Lep. Rlinp. et Het., p. 93, 1874. .\lbany. Allied to 

 H. diffinis; Grole believes il to be H. tenuis, in wbicli the scales on tlie pellnci<l area of the wings are slill adlieren'." 

 Grote is right in his belief. 



Page 519, No. li, " Sesia thetis, Grote and Robinson, Trans. Am. ICiit. Soc, Vol. I, p. 3, pi. (!, fig. 3G. (Jan., 1868)." 

 Should be p. 32.'), pi. 0, etc., not p. " 3." 



Page 521, No. " 16, IIem.^uis axillaris. Sesia axiilari*, (Jrote and Robinson, Trans. .\m. Knl. Soc, ii, p. 180, (1868). 

 liEMAnis AXILLARIS, (jrole. Bull. Bufl'. Soc. Na(. Sci., p. 0, |)l. I, fig. 9, (1>>73). 

 Sesia (jroUi, Butler, Ann. A Mag. Nat. Hist,, .Scr. 1, Vol. XIV, p. 365, (1874). Texas, (Bel/rage)." 

 No. "17, Hemakis maroinai.is. Grote, Bull. BuH'. Soc. Nat. Sci., p. 6, pi. 1, fig. 10, (1873). Michigan. {Strecker.)" 

 These two are unqiiesiioiiably the same species; the type of Mnrtfinalls has the dentations on inner edge of margin of primaries 

 not as deeply cut as in the type of Axillaris, but in a number of examples all the gradations between the two extremes can be found and 

 in one example which 1 passess the teeth are prohmgeil inwardly even more than in Grote's figure in Bull'. Bull. 



P. 522 No. "20 Hemakis iuff,\loexsis. Ilirjnorrhiuiia buffahensis, (irnte and Robinson, .\nn. Lye, Nat. Hist. New York, 

 Vol. viii, p. 437, pi. Hi, figs, IS, Hi, i I8ti7l. BuH'.ilo. Very closely allieil to, if not identical with H. rujicuudis (jf Walker (? Kirby, ; 

 the body, however, seems greener in colouring, and the cell of primaries les.s open," 



This is, as the latter part of the above quotation would lead us to infer, indentical with Ruficaudia of wliicli Sesia f/ni/ormis, G.-R., 

 is also a .synonym. 



On ihe same principle that certain individuals of this iTvlicmtrlis were erected into the species Buff<tloenjiis, all those found in 

 Reading could be designated a.- Readingensis, those from Kniztown as Kulzlownensis, those from Folly-bill as Folly-hiltensis, and so on. 



The svnonvmv of this species is: 

 MACRociLOS,iA RiFKAUDis, KiRiiY, I Sesio Jt.), Faun. Hor. Am. IV, 303, (18.37). Walker, C. B. M, \I1I, 82, (1856). Morris, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am., 17, ( IStllli, Syn. Lep., 149, (ISi;2). Cuuper. Can. Ent. IV, 20o, (1872). 

 Hcemorrhagia Rulicaudis. Urate A' Robinson, Proc. Knt. Soc, Phil. \', 149 & 175, (1865). 

 Hemaris Ru/icaudis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Loud. IX, 521, (1877 I. 

 HtemorrhiKiia BuffaUiensix. Grote li Robinson, .\nn. Lvc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. VIII, 437, t. 16. figs. 1.8, 19, (1867), List Lep. N. Am., 3, 



(18tiS|. ' Grote. Butr. Hull. 1. 18, (1873i, II, 224, (18751. 

 Hemarii BulYaloensis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Loud. IX, 522, (1877). 



Sesia Uniformis, Grote & R^)bin.vm, Trans. Am. Knt. Soc. 11, 181, (1868). Lintner, 23d Kep. N. Y. State Cab. Nat Hist., 172,(1872). 

 Uamnrrhagia Unifo'mis, Grole & Robinson, List Lep. N. Am., 3, (1868). Grole. Butt'. Bull. I, 18, (1873), II, 224, (1875). 

 1 would futther refer the student to page 109 of this work where I have dwelt at .some length on this species. 



No. "23 Hemaris fuscicaudis. Sesia fiuiicittdis Walker, Lep. Het. viii, p. 83, No. 6 (1856). Hivmorrhagia/usicaudis, Grote & 

 Robinson, Proc. Knt. Soc. Phil. vol. v, p. 174 (1865). 



(icorgia {Abbot). Type, H. M." 



This is the southern form of Thysbe, from which it ditlers in nothing except its greater size; the absence of Ihe greenish colour 

 on the sides of the two last segments of abdomen is not specific as I Juive taken as many of Thysbe in Pennsylvania destitute of this 

 greenish colour an abdomen as I have with it, and one example in my cabinet has all Ihe segments of the abdomen dark red and only 

 the thorax green ; otherwise il is the same as the ordinary Thysbe. 



On p. 519 No. "3 Hemaris palpalis Cirote'' from British Columbia. 

 No. 7 "Hemaris melathetis" Butler from Texas. 



On p. 635 ''Hemaris rubens, H. Eilwds." from Oregon .and " H. cynoglossum IL Kdwds," from California and Vancouver's Island, 

 ,\re all unknown to me save through the author's descriptions. 



Page 529, No. "41, Macrogi.ossa erato, Bdl., Lep, Cal. in Ann. Soc. Knt. Beige., xii, p, 65, no, ()7 (1868)," 



Page 536, " Euproxerj)inv.'< plutlon, (jrote and Kobin-^on, Proc. Knl. Soc. Phil. v<il. v, page 178, (1865). California ( Weidemeyer)." 



Further on page 636, "Jiuproaerpinus phaeton ofOroie is said lobe identical with Macroglossa erato of Boisduval ; see H. Edwards 



in Proc. Cal. Acad. Sc. 1875, p. ';." 



On page 113 (fool nolei and page 124, I have explained fully ill regard to the confusion of names in this .species which is fig. ] 



on plate .\1 V. 



Page 569, Deilephila (iaiii and D. Chama-nerii are cited a.s separate speeie.s, but the author adds: "according to Strecker (Can, 

 Knt. IV, p. "206), i>. chamcenerii is = D. galii," and I must here repeat ihat they undoubtedly arc but one species, the only diflerence 

 between them being in tiie name. 



Page 569 No. "8 Deilephila intermedia, Kirby, Fauna Amer.-Bor. vol. iv. p. 302 (1837). "Canada" {Kirby)." 

 This also I believe to be nothiug more than Galii iChamcenerii, Harr.). 



Page 574 No. "2, Philampelus linnei Grote & Robinson Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. v, pp. 1.57, 179, 182, pi. .3, fig. 3, (1865). 



Sphinx vitis. Cramer. Pap. Kxot. vol. iii, pi. 268, fig. E ( 1782). 



Dupo vitis, Ilubncr, \'erz. bek. Schnietl. p. 137, no. 146(1 ( 1816). 



J'hilampelus ritis. Walker, Lep. Het. viii, p. 176, no. 4 (18-56). 



Phitampelus/asciatus, Grote, notes Cub. Sph., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. v, pp. -59, 84, (1865). 



Mexico (Ilarlueg] ; Haiti {Oiiming <t Tueedie) ; ? (Stevens)." 



I have an example of this species taken bv Boll near San .Vntonia, S. W. Texas; Mr. .1. Doll also look it in Florida. 



Some examples which I received from Surinam and the upper .Vmazons are nn'ch larger than the West Indian ones or tho.se 

 from Fhnida and Texas, expanding 4^^ to 45 inches; these S. .\m. examples are also of a general darker hue, the dorsal stripe of aMo- 

 men being not particularly noticeable; the greenish of upper side of secondaries more inclined to grey, Ihe rose-coloured inner margin 

 darker, the pale lines and l>auds of primaries clouded or shaded with brown, and the veins are accompanied with while to the extreme 

 edge of the exterior margin, whilst in the Cuban and I". S. examples they extend only to the grey bonier of exterior margin. They 

 remind one forcibly of Menelrics' figure of P. Strenua (Cat. Mus. Pelrop. Lep. II, f. 12, 1857) and il is only by actual comparison that 

 the mind can be disabused of the idea that they are identical. 



