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* Inferior wings prolonged into a tail. 



H. proteus, Lat. Wings brown, with live or six square semitrans- 

 parent spots and black transverse bands below the inferior ones. 

 Inhabits south America. Nouv. Diet. xiv. 446. 



** Inferior wings not prolonged. 



H. malvce, Lat. Wings dentated, blackish, with deeper spots, of 

 which many are disposed in bands, some almost black, with white 

 transparent points, and many square ; under side of the wings 

 paler and less spotted, and the whitish points disposed in two 

 or three transverse lines. Inhabits Europe, on the mallow. 

 Shaw, vi. pi. 7L 



FAMILY II. CRKPUSCULARIA. 



Exterior border of the lower wings with generally near its ori- 

 gin a strong and pointed stiff horny bristle, which enters in- 

 to a groove below the upper ones, and retains the four in a 

 horizontal situation in repose ; antennae in the form of an 

 elongated club, those of many males, and sometimes both 

 sexes, pectinated or serrated ; caterpillars with always sixteen 

 feet. 



TRIBE I. HESPERI-SPHINGES, Lat. 



Antennae always simple, terminating in a club, with the extre- 

 mity hooked and without a tuft of scales. 

 Gen. COHONIS, CASTNIA, AGARISTUS. 



Gen. CASTNTA, Lat. Fab. Papilio, Lin. 

 Antennae with a terminal elongated club ; palpi subcylindrical, 

 adpressed, not contiguous, shortly scaled, and distinctly three 

 jointed. 



C. Cyparissias, Lat. Wings black, entire, with two white bands, 

 oblique before, and dotted behind. Inhabits South America. 

 Fab. Spec. ii. 52. 



TRIBE II. SPHINGIDES, Lat. 



Antennae always terminated by a small scaly tuft in a prismatic 

 club, commencing near the middle of their length ; lower 

 palpi broad, very scaly, with the third joint smaller, and ge- 

 nerally indistinct. 

 Gen. SMERINTHUS, ACHERONTHIA, SPHINX, MACROGLOSSUM. 



Gen. SPHINX, Lat. Lin. 



Lower palpi with but two apparent joints, the third being very 

 small, contiguous, scaly ; club of the antennae commencing 

 near the middle, simple, or with three transverse striae, beard- 

 ed, never strongly serrated ; a corneous and very distinct 

 tongue ; body short, thick ; eyes large ; wings almost hori- 

 zontal, forming a triangle with the body ; abdomen conical ; 

 feet thick, with two simple hooks at the end of the tarsi 



