198 Remarks on the Sphingidoe of Cuba. 



terminal band is drawn alon«; the external margin of the 

 secondaries, which is one of the strongest specific characters of 

 the insect. Cramer is the first, and, until now, the only author 

 to figure the second species (fasciatus mihi, non Sulzer), which 

 he does on Plate 268, Fig. E, while erroneously regarding it as 

 the female of the species figured on Plate 267, Fig. C. This 

 latter figure accurately represents the Sphinx vitis of Linnaeus, 

 Merian, Drury, ~W. V., Abbot and Smith, and the Philampelus 

 vitis of Harris. 



I find, besides Hiibner's synonym for P. vitis — of Dupo jus- 

 sieuce (under which trivial name Mr. "Walker and Dr. Clemens 

 erroneously describe P. vitis Harris, etc.), that Sulzer has 

 figured the species as Sphinx fasciatus Sulzer, a name, which, 

 as long since remarked by Cramer, must be referred as a syno- 

 nym to Sphinx vitis\A\\\\. (S. vitis Cramer, Plate 267. Fig. C). 

 I had no access, as stated, to Sulzer's work, when determining 

 the species, and have erroneously used the trivial name pro- 

 posed by Sulzer, for the P. vitis of Mr. "Walker and Dr. 

 Clemens, a species which must receive a new name, since it has 

 been hitherto confounded with Linnteus's species. 



For the. reason that Dr. Harris's description of Philampelus 

 hornbecldana will not positively and properly apply to this 

 species, to which it has been doubtfully referred by authors, 

 and that the researches among Dr. Harris's insects in the col- 

 lection of the Boston Society of Natural History, kindly under- 

 taken by Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., and Mr. Francis G. Sanborn, 

 have failed to discover the specimen, the present species has 

 received the name of Philampelus linnci, Grote and Robinson 

 {P.fasciaius, mihi, non Sulzer), in the paper on North Ameri- 

 can Sphingidoe, already alluded to. A disintegration of Dr. 

 Clemens' synonymy of P. vitis Clem., shows that the two 

 species have been indifferently cited. For instance, we find 

 here the citation of Dr. Harris's Philampelus vitis, which, in 

 reality, refers to P.jussieum Clem., while the larva of Sphinx 

 vitis Smith ( Philampelus vitis Harris), which is the true vitis 



