140 ON SOME N. AMERICAN SPHINGID.E IN A. G. BUTLER'S REVISION. 



Page 518, No. " 2, Hemaris fdmosa. Macroytossa fumom, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. et Het., p. 93, 1874. Albany. Allied to 

 S. diffinis; Grote believes it to be H. tenuis, in wbich ibe scales on the pellucid area of the wings are still adlieren>." 

 Grote is right in his belief. 



Page 519, No. 6, " Sesia ihetis, Grote and Robinson, Trans. Am. ICnt. Soc, Vol. I, p. 3, pi. (5, fig. 36, (Jan., 18G8)." 

 Should be p. 325, pi. 6, etc., not p. " 3." 



Page 521, No. "16, Hem.\ris axillaris. Sesia axillaris, (irote aud Robinson, Trans. .\ni. Ent. 8oc., ii, p. 180, (1868). 

 Hemaris, axillaris, Grote, Bidl. Buft'. Soc. Nat. Sci., p. 6, pi. I, fig. 9, (1873). 

 Sesia grolei, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4. Vol. XIV, p. 365, (1874). Texas, (Bel/rage)." 

 No. "17, Hemaris JiAKGiNALis. Grote, Bnll. Bufi'. Soc. Nat. Sci., p. 6, pi. 1, fig. 10, f 1873). Michigan. [Strecker.)" 

 These two are untpiestioiiably the same species; the type of MargiwtUs lias the dentations on inner eiige 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 exaniple which 1 possess the teeth are prolonged inwardly even more than in Grote's figure in Eutl'. Bull. 



P. 522 No. "20 FIemar-is bufpaloensis. Hmmorrhagia buffaloensis, Grote and Robinson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New Yorlc, 

 Vol. viu, p. 437, pi. 16, figs. 18, 19, (1867). Bufflilo. Very closely allied to, if not identical with H. rujicaiidis of Walker (? Kirby) ; 

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



This is, as the latter part of the above quotation would lead us to infer, indentical with Ruficaudis of which Sesia Uiii/onnis, G.-R., 

 is also a synonym. 



On the same principle that certain individuals of this Evlicauiiis were erected into the species Buffaloensis, all those found in 

 Keading could be designated as Readingensis, those from Kutztown as Kutzlownensis, those from P^olly-hill as Follij-hillensis, and so on. 



The svnonymv of this species is: 

 Macroglossa Ruficaudis, Kirby, tSesia R.), Faun. Bor. Am. IV, 303, (1837). Walker, C. B. M. VHI, 82, (1856). 3forris, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am., 17, (I860), Syn. Lep., 149, (1862). Couper, Can. Ent. IV, 20o, (1872). 

 Hcemorrhagia Ruficaudis, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. V, 149 & 175, (1865). 

 Hemaris Ruficaudis, Butter, Trans. Zool. Soc. Loud. IX, 521, (1877). 

 Hcemorrhagia Buffaloensis, Grote & Robinson, Ann. Lvc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. VIII, 437, t. 16, figs. 18, 19, (1867), List Lep. N. Am., 3, 



(1868). Grote, Buff. Bull. I. 18, (1873), II, 224, (1875). 

 Hemaria Buffaloensis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Loud. IX, 522, (1877). 



Sesia Unifonnis, Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. II, 181, (1868). Lintner, 23d Rep. N. Y. State Cab. Nat Hist., 172,(1872). 

 Hcemorrhagia Unijo'mis, Grote & Robinson, List Lep. N. Am., 3, (1868). Grote, Buff. Bull. I, 18, (1873), II, 224, (1875). 

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



No. "23 Hemaris fuscicaddis. Sesia fusic ludis Walker, Lep. Het. viii, p. 83, No. 6 (1856). Hrmorrhagia fusicaudis, Grote & 

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



Georgia (Abbot). Type, B. M." 



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

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

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

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



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

 No. 7 "Hemaris metathetis" Butler from Texas. 



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

 Are all unknown to me save through the author's descriptions. 



Page 529, No. "41, Macroglos.sa erato, Bdl., Lep. Cal. in Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige., xii, p. 65, no. 67 (1868)." 



Page 536, "Euproserpinvs phceton, Grote and Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v, page 178, (1865). California ( Weidemeyer) ." 



Further on page 636, "Huproserpimis phaeton of Grote is said to be identical with Macroglossa erato of Boisduval ; see H. Edwards 



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



On page 113 (foot note) and page 124, I have explained fully in regard to the confiLsion of names in this species which is fig. 1 



on plate XIV. 



Page 569, Deilephila Galii and D. Chania'uerii are cited as separate species, but the author adds: "according to Strecker (Can. 

 Ent. IV, p. 206), 1). chamcenerii is = I), gulii," and I nmst here repeat that they undoubtedly are but one species, the only difierence 

 between them being in the name. 



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

 This also I believe to be nothing more than Galii (Chamcenerii, Harr.). 



Page 574 No. "2, Philampelus linnei Grote & Robinson Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. v, pp. 157, 179, 182, pi. 3, fig. 3, (1865). 



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



IJupo vitis, Hubner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 137, no. 14fi<) (1816). 



Philampelus vitis. Walker, Lep. Het. viii, p. 176, no. 4 ( 1856). 



Philampelus fasciatus, Grote, notes Cub. Sph., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. v, pp. 59, 84, (1865). 



Mexico (Hartweg) ; Haiti (Cuming & Tweedie) ; — ? (Stevens)." 



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



Some examples which I received from Surinam and the upper .\mazons are nn'ch larger than the West Indian ones or tliose 

 from Florida and Texas, expanding 4^ to 4| inches ; these S. .\m. examples are also of a general darker hue, tlie dorsal stripe of abdo- 

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

 darker, the pale lines and bands of primaries clouded or shaded with brown, and the veins are accompanied with white to the extreme 

 edo-e of the exterior margin, whilst in the Cuban and U. S. examples they extend only to the grey border of exterior margin. They 

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

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



