IVIB. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGID^. 621 



2. Lintneria'? perelegans. 



Sphinx pwelegans, H. Edwards, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. v. p. 109 (Jan. 1874). 



Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California {G. B. Crotch). 



Mr. Henry Edwards says : — " This beautiful specimen closely resembles Sph. eremitus, 

 Walk., of the Atlantic States, but is readily known by its more brilliant grey colouring, 

 by the very sharply defined demi-bands, and by the strongly marked whitish submarginal 

 band of the fore wings." 



3. Lintneria? eremitoides. 



Sphinx eremitoides, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. p. 93 (1874). 



Kansas. 



Very briefly described, and, owing to Mr. Strecker's incomprehensible affection for 

 unmanageably extensive genera, described as a Sphinx, without a hint as to its struc- 

 tural characters. In the same page he described a Hemaris as a Macrocjlossa, which 

 at first fairly puzzled me, it not being a New-World *genus; but, fortunately, he 

 observed that it was allied to M. diffinis (one of the most typical species of Hemaris), 

 which at once enlightened me. 



Mr. Grote thinks it probable that S. eremitoides is = S. lugens of Walker ; but 

 (judging from Mr. Grote's previous papers on the Sphingidse) I am doubtful whether 

 he knows the S. lugens of Walker. It is certain that Clemens did not ; for he separated 

 it by a wide interval from his S. leucophceata. 



Genus 19. Cekatomia, Harris. 

 Ceratomia, Han-is, Sill. Journ. vol. xxxvi. p. 293 (1839). 



1. Ceratomia amtntor. 



Agrius amyntor, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. (1806). 



Ceratomia amyntor, Grote and Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. PhU. vol. v. p. 164. no. 89 (1865). 



Ceratomia quadricornis, Harris, SiU. Journ. xxxvi. p. 293 (1839). 



United States (Z*oz(5/ec^«^) ; Massachusetts (<S'/iefipar(^) ; Mesxco {Salle). B.M. 



2. Ceratomia hageni. 



Ceratomia hageni, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 149 (1874). 

 Texas. 



