142 ON SOME N. AMERICAN SPHINGID.T-: IN A. G. BUTLER'S REVISION. 



No. "8 Sphinx oereodaphne, II. Edwnnls, Proc. Calif. .\ca<1. Sci. v. p. 109 (1874). California." 



Tlie above is a j^viiiinyiii of CA<Ts/s, Hull. The Califoiniiin ami Oregon examples are not as large as those from the .Vllanlic 

 Slates. 



Page (il9, " 12 SpiiiN.x '.' lanceolata. Sphinx lanceolato, Feliler, Reise iler Nov., Lep. iv. lal). Ixxviii. lig. ;> (Nov., 1874). 

 (iiiateinala and Mexico. 



Seems allieil to S. chersis, liiit may possilily belong to the genus Pseudosphinx; willioiu seeing the insect it is impossible to 

 decide." 



I have an example in my collection from Panama which agrees exactly with Felder's splendid figure ; it is close to S. Chersis. 



On page (i21 No. "3 Lint.vekia kukmitoiiif-s. Sphinx crcmiioidfs, Streeker, Lep. Rhop. and Ilel. p. 93 (1874)." 

 This is a svnonvm of .V. Lumens. Mr. linller says, " .Mr. (irote thinks it prolialile thai 5. <' emitoides is = S. Luijens o( Walker; 

 but ( jnilging from Mr. ti rote's previons papers on the Spliingiilie i I am doublfnl whether he knows llie ^'. tiigens of Walker. It is certain 

 that Clemens did not ; for he separated ii by a wiile inlerval from his A', Icucophwala." 



/.(((/ens was unknown to .\nierican entomologists uniil after 1 rcdeseribed it on p. 93 under the name o( Erentitoides; it was 

 Grole's ignorance of the species that led me into the error, as in the collection of Lei)idopte.ra made by Orole and the late Coleman 

 Kobinson was an example of Sphinx JuMiciu; Hill., erroneously labeled S. Lumens, Wlk., and inasmuch as (irote and his collaborator made 

 their identilicalions of the Walkerian species by comparison with the types in the British Museum, during a visit to Kngl.-iml, I had not 

 the remotest idea that they would blunder on so large and conspicuous an insect as Lugt-ns. 



Mr. Hntler makes a new genus which he calls Linhteriu for the reception of Sphinx Krcmitvu. lib. and Sph. Pereleyuns, Ily. Kdwd.s., 

 though the latter he prefixes with a ?. Perdegans is nearer in general appearance to Chersis Hub., and also to Drupiferurnm, Ab.-S., 

 than to any others, as 1 have shown on page 13G. 



'■Ceralomiii hayeni, Orote," is closely allied to Daremma Undulosa, Wlk., and not at all to Ccratamia Amyntor, Midi., from which it 

 difTers remarkably in both the larva and winged state, its will be seen by referring to page 127 of this work where 1 have treated on this 

 species at length. 



In appendix T, p. 629: 



" Canadensis, Boisd.* p. 93, No. 29, = ?, Sphinx leucophaata." 



The species figured on plate XllI and described on p.age 115 under the name of Sph. Plata may be the same as S. Canadensis; if 

 such should prove to be the case the name given by me must fall. Dr. Boisduval's having priority by several years. 



Sphinx strobi. Boisd. ligured pi. 5 lig. 3. 



cupressi, Boisd. p. 102, n. 41, pi. 2, figs. 3-.")." 



Neither oflhe.se are in any American collection as far as I am aware of, nor are they known here save through the figures of 

 Boisduval. They ajipear to me lo belong to the Pinastri group. The habitat of 5. Cupressi is given as Georgia. 



"Sphinx calalpte, Boi.sd. p. 103, no. 42, pi. 2, figs. 1, 2." 



Prof. C. V. Riley has found the larva of this species on Catalpas, but so far has not been .successful iri .securing the imago. Boisduval 

 slates, on the authority of .\bbot, that the larva was found on Culalpa Cordifolia in Georgia. 



He also says his description was drawn up from a good figure by .\bbot and the notes of I.econte; he had failed lo receive the 

 species owing to the death of .Vbbol. 



The insect I believe is unrepresented in .Vmerican collections; the figure of the imagine on Boisduval's plate looks a good deal 

 like something between S. Undulosa and S. Hagmi. 



Page 634, "Macrog'ossa (rth-a, Streeker, Lep. Rhop. and Kel. i, jl. 107, tl87ol ; pi. xiii, fig. 2, (1876). 



In my description of this species on page 107 I have .stated that the type was from Montreal, Canada, which it seems Mr. I'.utler 

 overlooked. I have since received other examples from the same place. 



Page 035, " Hemaris RtFioAfDis, (.synonym). Macroglossa rufmiudis, Streeker, Lep. Rhop. and llet. i, pi. xiii, fig. 1, (1876)." 

 " Synonym " of what ? 



Page 636, " Deidamia inscrii-ta. Plerogon in-vriptuvt, Streeker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. pi. xiii, fig. 8, (1876)." 

 This belongs in the same genus with the Russian Gorgoniades, Hub., and wherever the one is placed the other likewise 

 belongs. 



Page 637, "Genus Ki.iniA. Walker. Kl.iniA versicolor. Darapsa versicolor. Streeker, Lep. Rho]i. and Het. i, pi. xiii, fig. 9, 

 (1876). it is evident Irom Sirecker's figure, that lliis species has been erroneously referred to the allied genus Otus." 



Wliat in all the earth could cause Biuler to place this species in the genus Elibia is beyond all comprelunsion. In Elibia are 

 but lwos]ieeies, bolh from India, Dolichus, West., and Dolichoides. Feld.; with ihe first only am 1 ac(|Uainleil in nature and the only 

 point in common iielwein it and Versicolor is the pale dorsal line, which decoration is also shared in by ground squirrels (lamias) and 

 garler snakes, and the mo.st rabid genus-fabricator would scanc on that account place these animals in one genus. 



Mr. .1. Meyer of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was the first person that bred Versicolor from the larva, informed me thai Ihe latter are, 

 with the e.xccpliou of being a little larger, almost precisely like those of i). Myton, Cram. And there cannot be Ihe least doubt but 

 that Versicolor belongs to the same genus with Choerilus and Myron. 



Darapsa was used to rejilace 0^(8 on account of the latter being preoccupied in ornithology. 



Page 63S. The author says of Chreroc impa Procne (fig. 10, plate XIII of this work) from California : " It is much more probable 

 that this is an .Vsiatic species allied lo C. lucasii." 



The example from which my figure was drawn agrees in all particulars exactly with Clemen's description in Jnl. .\cad. Nat. Se. 

 Phil., 1859. 1 obtained it along with the collection of Rev. Dr. J. 0. Morris some Iwenty years since; it had a small slip on ihe pin 

 with llie locality "S. California" written thereon, and I candidly confess that 1 still think this locality the correct one; there is no 



* Lep. Het. 1, Sph., Sesiides, Castnides., Suites a Buflbn. 



