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b. P. si'Jila si'.rffi. 



Sjihiiix sexta Johanssou, /.<•. 



Sjihijir carollmi Linne, Fabr. et alia, t.l. r.r. (partim) ; Drury, Ilhi.dr. E.r. Ins. i. p. 52 t. .Oi. f. 1 & 



Index (1771-73) (N.York) ; Curt., Uril. ICnl. v. i9t) (1828) (England ; larva, imago) ; Steph., 



niustr. Brit. Ent., Maud. i. p. 118 (1828) ; Abb. &• Smith, Lej,. Geurifia i. p. Co. t. .S:^ (1797) ; 



Harris, in Sillim., Jnurn. Sc. d- Art xxxvi. p. 294. n. 2 (1839) (partim V including i/iiinijiie- 



maculuius) ; GloT., Rfp. U. St. DfjjI. Af/ni-. p. 157 (1873) (larva and pupa, fig.) ; Harris, Ins. Inj. 



IV^.,ed. Flint, p. 322. figs. 145 47 (18(53) (larva, pupa) ; tifs^Ay, Pmr. Ac N. Scl. I'kilml. 



p. 237 (1882) (life hist.) ; French, Trnm. Vfjit. Agr. Jllhi. xv. p. 1G8 (1877) (larva) ; Mart., 



ibid, xviii. p. 103 (1880) (larva) ; Coq., ibid. p. 158 (1880) (larva) ; Pilate, Pi(j,ilin n. p. 00 



(1882) (Dayton, 0.; common) ; Kent, in Riley, Ins. Lif<- ii. p. 283 (1891) (Mi.ssissippi, larva 



abund.) ; id.. I.e. iii. p. 338 (1892) (Roxie ; common). 

 PMrgithonfius mrolhia, Hiibuer, /.c. (partim) ; Grote, Bull. Bnf. Soc. N. Sd. iii. p. 225 (187G) ; 



Fern., Sjihitifi. N. Engl. p. 31. n. 11 (1880) ; Grote, Nawle Mollis N. Am. p. 40 (1880) (partim); 



Edw., Bull. U.S. Nat. .Uus. xxxv. p. 40 (1880) (I'tei" re'- *» transf.) ; Beuteam., Bull. Am. 



J/iw. N. n. vii. p. 298. t. 4. f. 4. (/.) (1895). 

 Bphlnx curolhms (!), Emmons, Nat. Hist. N.Y. p. 218. t. 40. f. 10 (1854) 



Sj,hin.r nk-otianae Mf-n(5tri<;9, Enum. Corp. Anhn. Mhk. Petr., Lep. p. 89. u. 1480 (1857) (Am. sept.). 

 .\larrosila Carolina, Clemens, Joiiru. Ac. ^. Sri. Philad. iv. p. 105. n. 59. (1859) (pt.) ; id., in Morris, 



Syn. Lep. N. Am. p. 189 (1802; ; Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. N. Sci. ii. p. 227 (1875) (pt.) ; id., 



Canarl. Ent. ui. p. 101 (1871) (Alabama); Thaxt., Psyche i. p. 30 (1874) (Newton, Mass., vii.) ; 



Edw., Proc. Calif. Ac. vi. p. 92 (1870) (on tobacco, Calif.); Behr., Papilio ii. p. 2 (1882) 



(California). 

 *Sphinx lyeoprrsici Boisduval, Sprr. Gen. Lep- Ilrt. i. p. 71. n. 2 (1875) (Calif.) ; Edw., Ent. Amei: 



iii. p. 222 (1888) (Calif.). 

 Pruloparce Carolina, Butler, Trans. Zunl. Sue. Lunil. ix. p. 007. n. 11 (1877) (pt.) ; Smith, Trans. 



Amer. Ent. Soc. xv. p. 107 (1888) (partim) ; Mofp., Camul. Eut. xxix. p. 177 (1897) (London, 



Canada) ; Trum., Ent. News viii. p. 27 (1897) (S. Dakota) ; How., Yearh. U. St. Dipt. Ai/r. 



p. 120 (1898). 

 Macrosila {Sjiliin.r) (piinquernueulata, Mann, Psyrhr ii. p. 75 (1877) (partim ; descr. of larva). 

 Plileijethontins sexia, Kirby, Cat. Lep. lift. i. p. 088. n. 13 (1892) (partim). 



i ? . The white submarginal zigzag line of the forewing is, as a rule, very 

 Iironouuced. The black bands of the liindwing vary in width, and the middle ones 

 also in position, the white interspaces are often as mnch shaded with Mackish 

 brown as in jamaicensis, from whicli some Central American specimens are not 

 distiiignishable. 



i. Dentate lobe of harpe broad (PI. XXXVI. f. 4) ; but in one of our Orizaba 

 individuals (f. G) it is as narrow as in the Sontli American jxtphu.s. 



Larva : the side-bands bordered by a row of black transverse dots. Mexican 

 specimens not described ; ? if identical with North American. 



]Iub. Canada (rarely, straggler) to Honduras, westward to the Pacific. 



Boisduval's h/coper.iici is liased on s[iecimens from (!aliibrnia with the white 

 markings of the forewing prominent. Onr Californian examples are not different 

 from most of the eastern individuals. 



In the Tring Museum a series of larvae and p((p:i.e, and 5(1 od<l spi^cimens IVora 

 Canada, the United States, Mexico. 



(I. P. si:i:l(i jxiphua. 



Meriun, Ina. Surin. t. .57 (1705) (I., p., i.). 



Sphinx pnphuf Cramer, Pap. Ex. iii. p. 39 t. 210. f. Ii (1779) (Surinam) ; Goeze, Ent. Beylr. iii. 2. 



p. 220. n. 82 (1780) ; Boisd., Cons. Lep. Guatemala p. 74 (1870); id., Spec. lien. Lep. Hit. 



i. p. 72. n. 3 (1875) (Guiana) ; Moschl., Verh. Zool. Hot. Ges. Wien. xxvi. p. 340 (1870) 



(Surinam) ; Burm., Descr. Hep. Arij. v. p. 319. n. 1 (1878) (partim ; larva). 

 PhltyeAlamtim paphus, linhnuT, Vers. hek. Schm. p. 140. n. 1.504 (1822); Kirby, I'al. Lep. Ilel. i. 



p. 089. n. -M (1892) ; Boiiiiingh., Iris xii. p. 110. n. 3 (1899) (Rio de .Jan.). 



