310 CATALOGUE OF 



Section III. 



Larva of moderate length, either distinctly tuberculate and nearly 

 naked, or subpilose, and having long filiform appendages on the 

 anterior, or on both the anterior and posterior segments, together 

 with dense dorsal tnfts of short hairs on the middle segments. 

 Metamorphosis :— Cocoon large, oval, with a dense outer covering, 

 the interior consisting of a silken fabric. The perfect insect has the 

 wings either long and trigonate, oval, or broad ; the hind-wiDgs in 

 some are also long, being produced to a point at the apex : flies by 

 day ; antennae broadly bipectinated in the male, more narrowly so in 

 the female, and in some genera the females have the apex clavate ; 

 proboscis short ; abdomen slender, in some females the ovipositor 

 being exserted. 



Sphinx {sect. 4, pt.~), Linnaeus, S. N. I. II. (1767). 



Phal.33Na, sect. Attaci, pt. Linnceus. 



Sphinges (Larva G. pt.), Denis et Schieffermuller, Wien. Verz. p. 43, 



(1776), 

 Sphinges, pt. Hilbner, Zutrdge, p. 4 (1818). H. Loubleday, List 



Brit. Lep.p. 3 (1850). 

 Zygjsnides, pt. Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Lns. IV. pp. 189, 211 (1809). 



Boisduval, Ind. Me'th. p. 50 (1840). Walker, List Lep. Set. 



Brit. Mus.pt. I. p. 62 (1854). 

 ZYG.ENiD.a3, pt. Leach, Bdinb. Hncycl. p. (1815). Stephens, III. 



Brit. Ins. Haust. I. p. 105 (1828) ; id. Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. 



Mus.p. 24 (1850). Stainton, Manual Brit. Lep. pp. 75, 76 



(1856). 

 Glattcopites, pt. Newman, Bntom. Mag. II. p. 384 (1834) ; id. 



Hist, of Ins. 2nd edit. p. 21% (1841). 

 Antheoceeid^e, pt. Westwood, Introd. II. p. 371 (1840). 

 Zygjenites, pt. Peoceites, Abctiites et Lithosiites,^^. Blanchard, 



Hist. Nat. des Ins. II. pp. 354, 362-3 (1845). 



LlTHOSIID^, pt. CTENUCHIDiE, MeLAMEBID^!, PEEICOPIDiE, JNyC- 



temeeid^), Euschemidje et CHAECOsinxa:, Walker, List Lep. 



Het. Brit. Mus. pt, II. p. 279 (1854) ; id.pt. YII. pp. 1645- 



1668 (1856). 

 HazidjE, Guenee, Hist. Nat. des Lep. X. (Geometrites) , p. 188 (1857). 

 Zyg^noidea, pt. et Syntomoidea, Herr. Schqfer, Lep. JExot. Spec. 



Nov. pp. 57, 72 (1858). 

 Pteales, pt. Neionmn, Sph. Vesp.pp. 35, 36 (1832). 



