626 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGID^. 



Hyloicus coniferarum, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 139. no. 1484 (1816). 

 Anceryx coniferarum, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. .324. no. 2 (1856). 

 Sphinx cana, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 19. fig. 1 (1797). 

 Elkma coniferarvm, Grote, Bull, Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 27 (1873). 



Georgia (Abbot). B.M. 



I am glad to see this species referred by Mr. Grote to Ellema, that being unquestionably 

 the true position for it ; our example agrees far better with Abbot's figure than with 

 the description of E. harrisii ; it is certainly 6'. cana of Martyn. 



2. Ellema harrisii. 



Ellema harrisii, Clemens, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1859, p. 188 ; Lintner, Rep. New- York 



St. Cab. xxiii. pp. 170, 171, pi. 8. figs. 8-11 (1872). 

 Eilema (sic) harrisii. Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 37 (1864). 

 Sphinx coniferarum, Harris (nee Sm. & Abb.), Sill. Journ. vol. xsxvi. p. 297 (1839). 

 Ellema harrisi (sic), Morris, Syn. N.-Am. Lep. Sm. Ins. p. 216 (1862). 



"Atlantic District!" {Grote). 



The larva of this species is described at p. 272 of Packard's ' Guide.' 



3. Ellema pineum. 



Ellema pineum, Lintner, Rep. New-York St. Cab. xxiii. p. 169, pi. 8. figs. 12, 13 (1871). 

 Canada. 

 The larva of this species is described by Lintner. 



Genus 23. LaparaS Walker. 

 Lapara, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 232. gen. 33 (1856). 



Lapara bombycoides. 

 Lapara bombycoides. Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 233. no. 1 (1856). 



Canada. 



But for Mr. Walker's description of the body of this species as " body rather slender " 

 and " abdomen linear " I should have been inclined to think the species a male Ellema ; 

 as 1 have not seen males of that genus it may possibly be so. 



Genus Himantoides, n. gen. 



HiMANTOIUES UNDATA. 

 Perigonia undata, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 103. no. 6 (1856). 



Jamaica. Type, B.M. 



' See Mr. Grote's remarks in Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 28 (1873). 



