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in this Sphingid genus was therefore unexpected. No other American 

 species is so distinguished, and I cannot find a note of any other species 

 so distinguished, from other countries. 



In describing the genus, Messrs. Grote and Robinson (Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. Phil. V, 1 86) stated that the antennae were "doubly bi-pectinated" 

 in the (^, simple in the Q, failing however to remark on the anomalous 

 nature of this structure. In venation this species is typically spkingid, 

 and its larva of the true sphinx type. The tongue in the imago is entirely 

 obsolete, the feet are subequal in length, the frenulum wanting in the 9' 

 very minute in the (^, the loop wanting on the primaries : these structures 

 being essentially Bombycid. 



This structure can hardly be explained in anv wav, unless we con- 

 sider it an example of reversion — considering the Salurniids as the more 

 ancient type, ami the tvpical Sphinges as more recent than the Smerinthids, 



Catocala marmorata, Ediv. 

 This insect, one of the most beautiful, as well as one of the largest 

 of its genus, for many years was known only in isolated examples. The 

 type came from Yreka, Cal. Then it was taken here and there, in from 

 one to four or five specimens. In West Farms, by Mr. x\ngus; in New 

 Jersey, by Mr. Doll; in Covington, Ky. , by Mr. Dury; in Ills., by Prof 

 French; in P^vansville, Ind., by Mr. Evans, as well as other places, but 

 everywhere very rarely. A year or two since however its true home was 

 found; INIr. P>anck (if Brooklyn, while travelling through Kentucky, heard 

 of a local collector, and after the manner of the "brethren of the net'" 

 visited him to see who he was, and what he had. Imagine his surprise 

 to find that this collector, unknown to fame, had C. marmorata by the 

 scores. Our wide awake Brooklynite came to us showing box after box 

 <:)f these regal insects ! By a misfortune many were broken, but we saw 

 enough to excite our wonder. The collector reported, that it was very 

 common in his vicinity. Geo. D. Hulst. 

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