142 ON SOME N. AMERICAN SPHINGID^ IN A. G. BUTLER'S REVISION. 



No. "8 Sphinx oereoclaplnie, II. Edwards, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. v. y. 109 (187-i). California." 



The above is a svnon.vm of Chersis, Hub. The Californian and Oregon examples are not as large as those from the Athuitic 

 States. 



Page 619, " 12 Sphinx ? lancedlata. Sphinx lanceoluta, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. tab. Ix.xviii. fig. o (Nov., 1874). 



(iuatemala and Mexico. 



Seems allied lo S. c/iersi's, but may possibly belong to the genus Pseudosphinx; without 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 6'. Chersis. 



On page 621 No. " 3 Lintneria eremitoides. Sphinx eremiloides, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. p. 93 (1874)." 

 This is a synonym of S. Lugens. Mr. Butler says, " Mr. Grote thinks it probable that 5. c emitoides is = S.^ Luyens of Walker ; 

 but (judging froni .Mr.'Orote's |.revions paperson the Sphingid;e) I am doubtful whether he knows the S. Ivgens of Walker. It is certain 

 that Cleniens did not ; for lie separated it bv a wide interval from his S. Icvcophceala." 



Luyens was unknown to American entomologists niilil after 1 redescrihed it on p. 93 nnder the name of Eremitoides; it was 

 Grote's ignorance of the species that led me into the error, as in the collection of Lepidoptera made by Grote and the late Coleman 

 Robinson was an example o( Sphinx Justiciw, Bdl., erroneously labeled S. Lvgens, Wlk., and inasmuch as Grote and.his collabnralor made 

 their idenlificalions of the Walkerian species by comparison with the types in the British Museum, during a visit to England, I had not 

 the remotest idea that they wouhl blunder on so large and conspicuous an insect as Lvgens. 



Mr. Bntler makes a new genus which he calls Lintneria for the reception of Sphinx Fremitus, Hb. and Sph. Pereleyiins, Ily. Edwds., 

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

 than to any others, as 1 have sliown on page 136. 



"Ceratomia hageni, Orote," is closelv allied to Daremma Undulosa, Wlk., and not at all to Ceratomia Amyntor, Hub., from which it 

 diflfers remarkably in bo'lh the larva and winged state, as will be seen by referring to page 127 of this work where I have treated on this 

 species at lenglli. 



In appendix I, p. 629 : 



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



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

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



Sphinx strobi, Boisd. figured pi. 5 fig. 3. 



cupressi, Boisd. p. 102, n. 41, pi. 2, figs. 3—5." 



Neither ofthe.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 appear to me to belong to the Pinaslri group. The habitat of S. Cupressi is given as Georgia. 



"SpAi'nx ca(a/prr, Boisd. p. 10.3, 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 m securing the imago. Boisduval 

 states on the authority" of Abbot, thai the larva was found on Cutalpa Cordifolia in Georgia. 



' He also says his description was drawn »[> from a good figure by Abbot and the notes of I.econte ; he bad failed to receive the 

 species owing to the death of Abbot. ^ , , . . t, • j „ , , . , , , 



The insect 1 believe is nnrepresenled in American collections; the figure of the imagine on Boisduval s plate looks a good deal 

 like something between S. Unduhsa and S. Hayeni. 



Page 634, "Macroy'ossa ath^a, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. i, p. 107, (1875) ; pi. xiii, fig. 2, (1876). 



9" 



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

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



Page 635, "Hemaris ruficaudis, (synonym). Macroglossa ruficaudis, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. i, pi. xiii, fig. 1, (1876)." 

 " Synonym " of what ? 



Page 636, " Deidamia inscripta. Plerogon insteriplum, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. pi. xiii, fig. 8, (1876)." 

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

 belongs. 



Page 637, "Genus Elibia, Walker. Elibia versicolor. Darapsa versicolor, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. i, pi. xiii, fig. 9, 

 (1876). It is evident from Strecker's figure, that this species has been erroneously referred to the allied genus Otus.'' 



What in all the earth could cause Butler to place this species in the genus Elibia is beyond all comprehension. In Elibia are 

 but two species, both from India, Dolichus, West., and Dolichoides, Feld. ; with the first only am I acquainted in nature and the only 

 point in common between it and Versicolor is the pale dorsal line, which decoration is also shared in by ground squirrels [Tamias) and 

 garter snakes, and the most rabid genus-fabricator would scarce on that account place tbe.se animals in one genus. 



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

 with the exception of being a little larger, abiiost jirecisely like those «\' D. Myion, Cram. And there cannot be the least doubt but 

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



Darapsa was used to replace Otus on account of the latter being preoccupied in ornithology. 



Page 638. The author says o( Cheerocampa Procne (fig. 10, plate XIII of lliis work) from California: " It is much more probable 

 that this is an .\siatic species allied to C. lucasii." 



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

 Phil. 1859. I obtained it along w"ith the collection of Rev. Dr. J. G. Morris some twenty years since; it had a small slip on the pin 

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



*Lep. Het. 1, Sph., Se.siide.s, Castnides., Suites a Buflbn. 



