62 SMERINTHUS. 



ImL Soc, Phila., Vol. Y, p. IGO, 185, (1865); T.ist Lep. X. Am. I, p. iv, (1868.) 



Packard, Guide, Ins., p. 275, (1869.) Lintner, 24th Report, N. Y. State, Mus. Nat. 



Hist., p. 119, (1870.) Grofe, IJull. Buff". Soc. Nat. Sc, Vol. I, p. 2.3, (1873.) 

 Smcrinthus Gamnnta, Harris, Cat. Ins. Mass. in Rep. Geo. Bot. & Zool. of Mass., (1835); Sill. 



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

 Yar. Jam viCENSis, Drury, (Sphinx Ocellatu.^ Jamaicensis, ) 111. Ex. Eut., Yol. II, p. 43, t. 25, 



(1773.) Smerinthus J., WestwoofI, Urnrv 111. E.\-. Ent, Yol. II, p. 47, t. 25, (1837) ; 



Grote & Rohimon, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., Yol. Y, p. 160, (1865); Lintner, 24th 



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



Oi'TiiALMicus, BoLstluval, Annales, Soc. Ent. de France, t. Ill, 3me ser. xxxvii, (1855.) Ctonens, Jnl. 



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



& Robinson, Proc. i:nt. Soc, Phila., Yol. Y, p. 160,(1865); List Lep. N. Am., 



I, p. iv, (1868.) Lintner, 24th Report, N. Y. State, ISIus. Nat. Hist., p. 125, (1870.) 



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

 Ceri.syi Kirby, Fauna Boreali Americana, Yol. lY, p. 302, t. 4, f. 4, (1837.) Lintner, 24th Report, N. Y. 



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

 Smvinthus Cerisii, Grote, Proc Ent. Soc, Phila., Yol. Y, p. 40, (1865) ; Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat 



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



(1865); List Lep. N. Am., I, p. iv, (1868.) 



MoDEST\, Harris, Sill. Am. Jnl. Sc. & Art, Yol. 36, p. 292, (1839); Agassiz' Lake Superior, p. 388, t. 7, 

 (1850.) Clemens, Jnl. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., p. 183, (1859.) 3Iorris, Syn., p. 210, 

 n. 3, (1862.) 



Smerinthus 3Iodestus, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Lep. 8, p. 248, (1856.) Grote & Robinson, Proc. 

 Ent. Soc, Phila., Yol. Y, p. 161, 185, (1865); List Lep. N. Am. I, p. iv, (1868.) 



Smerinthus Princeps, Walker, Cat. Brit. iSIus. Lep. 8, p. 255, (1856.) 



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



In 1810 Hubiier in liis Verzeic-linisz Bekannter Sclimetlerliiige divided .md sub-divided the Smcriiitlii into .'icveral groups and 

 genera. Ilis first sub-family, Dentati, comprised the genera Colaces and Polyptychus, and tlie second, Angiilati, contained Paonias and 

 Maima'ntes- Polvptvcluis was for the reception of tlie plain grey species such as Deutatus C'r. and .Juglandis Abb. & S., whilst Paonias 

 was for the 'species having the inferiors ornamented with eye-like spot.^ of which Ocellata L., and Excaecata Abb. & S. were types. 

 But in this Huhner was no more felicitions than in ibe numberless other instances in which he pursued the same course ; in fact so few 

 admired the svstem that it fell into almost entire disuse, until within the present year, when, Mr. (M-ote very injudiciously attempted 

 to revive it, w"ith additions of his own, in his Catalogue of the Sph. of X. -Vm., published in ilie ISuUetm ol the Buflalo Society, m which 

 the unfortunate Smerinthi are treated in this wise on p. 23, 2-1. 



"Tribe, Angui.ati Ilubner. SMERINTHUS, Latreille (1S09.) 



PAONIAS, Hubner (1816.) Type : Sphinx Ocellatu.s, Linnacm. 



Tvpe: Sphinx Exc.aecatus, Abbot & Smith. Ophthalmicus, BoMural 



California. 

 ExCAECATC.s, Huhner. Geminati'S, Say. 



Sp/iinx £j;caeca(us, Abbot & Smith. Canada; Massachusetts; New York; Penn-sylvania. 



Canada; Massachusetts; New York ; Southern States. Cerisii, Kirby. 



Hudson'.^! Bay Territory (Kennicott.) 

 Pavoninus, Geyer. 



Pennsylvania (Auth. Geyer.) An spec, praec f Tribe: Dentatae (Huhner.) 



Myops, Hvhner. LAOTHOE, Fahricitis restr. (1807.) 



SphinrnMyops, Abbot & Sinilh. ■ Type : Sphinx Populi, imnofu.?. 



Smerinlhxis Rosacaerum, Boisduval. MODESTA. 

 New Y'ork ;_ Pennsylvania ; Southern States. Smerinthus Modesta, Harris. 



„ „ ,,„»„> Smerinthus Prmcfps, Walker. 



CALASYMBOLUS, Grote (18-3.) ^^^^ ^^^^^^ Massachusetts ; New York. 



Type, Sphinx Astylus, Drury. '■ 



CRESSONIA, Grote & Eobinson (18G5.) 

 ASTYH-S. rp^pg . Sphinx Juglandis, Abbot A Smith. 



SphiTix Miylus, Drury. Juglandis, Grote .0 Robinson. 



SpAiTix /o, Boisduval., ""- oi- r ; j- >i i * c c -.1 



Smerinthus Integcrrima, Harris. Sphmx .Juglandis, Abbot & Smith. 



Massachusetts; New York ; Pennsylvania. Canada ; Mas.sachusetts ; 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 tlian 

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

 " differs from Paonias in the shape of the secondaries, and from Smerinthus in antennal structure, " in what tliat difference of an'ennal 

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

 species of this countrv, as well as of v.arious Exotics, I am forced to the conclusion that any real material difference in the structure 

 exists not in the anteimae of the Smerinthi but in the fervid imagination of the founder of the Calasymbolus and Crcssonia Dynasties. 



