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ORGAN OF THE CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB 



EDITED BY GEORGE DIMMOCK AND B. PICKMAN MANN. 



VoL II.] Cambridge, Mass., Sept.-Oct., 18T7. [Nos. 41-42. 



Descriptions of some Larvae of Lepidoptera, respect- 

 ing Sphingidae especially. 



In this article is given a list, as full as the time and means 

 now at my disposal allow, of tlie descriptions hitherto published 

 of the larvte of North American Sphingidae, together with a 

 few descriptions, now published for the first time, of larvre of 

 Sphingidae and of other moths. It is due to Mr. W. V. An- 

 drews, the author of some of the new descriptions, to say that 

 he put some of his descriptions into the hands of the editors 

 more than a year ago, and their publication has been delayed 

 through 710 fault of his. 



The descriptions which are contained in the monograph of 

 the Sphingidae published by Brackenridge Clemens in the 

 Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 \v (1859), are reprinted in the Synopsis of the described Lep- 

 idoptera of North America, i (1862), compiled by J. G. Mor- 

 ris for the Smithsonian Institution. As the latter publication 

 is the more accessible, it is referred to here to the exclusion of 

 the references to the original monograph. 



The following named works have been consulted (with 

 others) in the preparation of this list, and are referred to by 

 the abbreviations prefixed. 



Abb. — The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia (1797). 



Can. Ent. — Canadian Entomologisr, vol. i-ix (1868-1877). 



Hy. Edw. — Henry Edwards' Pacific Coast Lepidoptera, Nos. i-xxiii (1873-1877). 



HaiT. Ins. Inj. Veg. — T. W. Han-is' Treatise on some of the insects injurious to 

 vegetation (ed. of 1862). 



Harr. Ent. Corr. — T. W. Harris' Entomological Correspondence (If 69). 



Harr. Sphinx. — T. W. Harris' . . . Catalogue of the North American . . . Sphinx 

 . . . , in the American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. xxxvi (1839). 



Lintn. Ent. Contr. — J. A. Lintner's Entomological Contributions, Nos. i-iii (1S73- 



