574 ME. A. G. BUTLEE ON THE SPHINGLD^. 



Genus 17. Philampelus, Harris. 

 Philampelus, Hams, Amer. Journ. Sci. vol. xxxvi. p. 299 (1839). 



Section Dupo, Hiibner. 



1. Philampelus vitis. 



Sphinx vitis, Linnseus, Mus. Lud. TJlr. p. 354 (1764). 

 Philampelus vitis, Harris, Sill. Journ. vol. xxxvi. p. 299 (1839). 

 Sphinx fasciatus, Sulzer, Gesch. Ins. p. 151, pi. 20. fig. 1 (1776). 

 Philampehis fasciatus, Herrich-ScliafFer, Corr.-Blatt. 1865, p. 58. 



(J Eumorpha elegans jiissieiKB, Htibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. i. pi. 169. figs. 1, 2 (1806). 



? Dupo jussieutB, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 163. figs. 3, 4 (1806). 

 Philampelus jtissieua, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 177. no. 6 (1856). 



Mexico (Salle) ; west coast of South America [Eellet & Wood) ; Haiti (Tweedie) ; 

 Jamaica {Bedman, Gosse) ; Brazil (Stevens). B.M. 



Mr. Grote has very rightly restored Linne's name to this species, the figure referred 

 to in the original description (Merian, Surin. 47, t. 47. f. 1 — that is, the upper figure) 

 being evidently intended for the S. fasciatus of Sulzer (Mimorpha jussieuw, Hiibn.). 



2. Philampelus linnei. 



Philampelus linnei, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v. pp. 157, 179, 182, pi. 3. fig. 3 



(1865). 

 Sphinx vitis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. vol. iii. pi. 268. fig. E (1782). 

 Dupo vitis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 137. no. 1466 (1816). 

 Philampelus vitis, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 176. no. 4 (1856). 

 Philampelus fasciatus, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v. pp. 59, 84 (1865). 



Mexico (Hartioeg) ; Haiti (Cuming & Tweedie) ; \ (Stevens). B.M. 



3. PHIL.UIPELUS HOENBECKIANA. 



Philampelus hornbeckiana, Harris, Cat. N.-Am. Sph., SUl. Journ. p. 299 (1839). 

 " St. Thomas, West Indies." — Harris. 

 Apparently allied to the preceding. 



4. Philampelus strenuus. 



Ch(Brocampa strenua, Menetries, Enum. Corp. Anim. Mus. Ac. Sci. Petrop., Ins. Lep. ii. p. 132, pi. 13. 



fig. 3 (1857) ; Walker, Lep. Het., Suppl. i. p. 30 (1864). 

 Philampelus strenuus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v. pp. 60, 157 (1865). 



" Haiti." — Menetreis. 



Allied to P. linnei. 



