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marked species, readily distinguished by its pale fore wings, and by the triangular mark 

 of the thorax." 



9. Sphinx justici^. 



Sphinx justici(B, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 220. no. 12 (1856). 



Brazil {Stevens) ; Rio Janeiro {Stevens). Type, B.M. 



10. Sphinx anteros. 



Sphinx anteros, Men^tries, Enum. Corp, Anim. Mus. Imp. Acad. Sci. Petrop. ii. p. 131. no. 1478, 

 pi. xii. fig. 1 (1857). 



" New Friburg (not far from Rio Janeiro)." 

 Allied to the preceding species and to S. chersis. 



11. Sphinx mekops. 



Sphinx merops, Boisduval, Lep. Guat. p. 73 (1870) . 



Hondui'as and Mexico. 



Closely allied to S. jiisticiw, from which it seems chiefly to differ in having three 

 black bands on the under surface of secondaries. 



12. Sphinx"? lanceolata. 



Sphinx lanceolata, Felder, Raise der Nov., Lep. iv. tab. Ixxviii. fig. 3 (Nov. 1874) . 



Guatemala and Mexico. 



Seems allied to S. chersis, but may possibly belong to the genus Pseudosphinx ; 

 without seeing the insect it is impossible to decide. 



13. Sphinx capreolus. 



Anceryx capreolus, Schaufuss, Nunquam Otiosus, i. p. 16 (1870) . 



" Virmont " ^ {Kaden) ; " Venezuela ! " {Schaufuss). 



This appears to me to be a very faulty description of a faded S. kalmice, Sm. & Abb.; 

 for although the description of the body ^ and the under sui'face of the wings does not 

 agree with S. kalmice, the former may be rubbed or greasy, and the latter faded. The 

 apparently arbitrary alteration of the locality makes me suspicious of there being an 

 error somewhere : if the species was, as Dr. Schaufuss says, labelled " Mit der Bezeich- 

 nung ' Virmont ' in der Sammlung," why alter it to Venezuela 1 



' ? State Vermont, Umted States. 



' The body (apparently only the abdomen) ia described as pitch-black at the sides, with a pale spot, with a 

 slender longitudinal red line and two other black ones ; whereas S. Icalmice is black at the sides, with about live 

 white bars, interrupted by a longitudinal red-brown band with a central black line. 



