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January 25, 1922 Vol. VIII, pp. 1-23 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



TWENTY-FIVE NEW SPHINGIDAE 



BY BENJAMIN PRESTON CLARK 



The sphingid forms described in the following pages comprise 

 thirteen new species and twelve new subspecies. They are from 

 widely scattered localities. Seven are from South America, 

 five from China, five from Polynesia, two from the Philip- 

 pines, and one each from the Caucasus, North America, the 

 West Indies, Africa, Australia and the Fiji Islands. 



My collection now has reached a total of eleven hundred and 

 twenty-five species and subspecies, represented by some seventy- 

 two hundred specimens. As the total number of species and 

 subspecies of Sphingidae known to science is about thirteen 

 hundred, it is my hope and ambition eventually to gather to- 

 gether a complete collection of this remarkable family, con- 

 taining every known form. So far as I have been able to learn, 

 such a task never has been accomplished in any large family of 

 living creatures. Yet I have good reason to believe that, though 

 by my own efforts I never could attain this goal, I shall be en- 

 abled to do so by the active cooperation of men of science the 

 world over, which has already brought me so far along the road. 

 For this assistance I wish to give my hearty thanks to men too 

 numerous to mention, but whose help I deeply appreciate. 



