Bibliography of the Sesiid^e. 



1758. Linne, Carl. Systema Nature. 10th Edit. Holmiae, 1758. 



Original description of Sphinx (= Sesia) culiciformis (p. 493). [1] 



1759. Clerck, Carl Alexander Icones Insectorum Rariorum, etc. Holmiae, 1759-1764. 



Contains the original figures and names of Sphinx (= Sesia) tipuliformis (pi. iv, fig. 1), Sphinx (—Alge- 

 ria) apifonnis (pi. iv, fig. 2), and Sphinx (= Sesia) culiciformis Linn. (pi. iv, fig. 3). [2] 



1761. Linne, Carl. Fauna Suecica, etc. Editio altera auctior. Stockholmiae, 1761. 



Brief descriptions of Sphinx (— Sesia) tipuliformis and Sphinx (= Algeria) apiformis (p. 83). [3] 



1762. Geoffroy, Etienne Louis. Histoire des Insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, 



etc. 1762. 

 Records and describes Sphinx (= Algeria) apiformis from the vicinity of Paris (p. 83). [4] 



1766. Hufnagel. Tabelle von den Tagvoegeln der Gegend urn Berlin. Berlin. Mag. Bd. II, 



St. I, 1766. 



Records (p. 184) Sphinx vespiformis (= Algeria apiformis) and (p. 188) Sphinx salmachus (= Sesia tipuli- 

 formis) from the vicinity of Berlin. [5] 



1 766-1 779. Schaeffer, Jacob Christian. Icones Insectorum circa Ratisbonam, etc. Regens- 

 burg, 1766-1779. 

 Figures Algeria apiformis (pi. cxi, figs. 2 and 3). No scientific names are used in this work, but the deter- 

 minations of the species are given by Panzer (1804). [6] 



1767. Linne, Carl Systema Naturae. 12th Edit. Holmiae, 1767. 



Descriptions of Sphinx ( — Algeria) apiformis and Sphinx ( — Sesia) tipuliformis (p. 804). [7] 



1767. Houttuyn, Martin. Natuurlyke Histoire of Uitvoerige Beschryving der Dieren, Planten 



en Mineraalen, Volgens het Sammenstel van den Heer Linnaeus. Verlog der Insecten, 



Erste Deels, Elfte Stiik, 1767, Amsterdam. 



Contains brief accounts of Sphinx (= Algeria) apiformis (p. I461), and Sphinx ( = Sesia) tipuliformis (p, 



462). [8] 



177 1. De Geer, Carl. Memoirs pour servir a 1' Histoire des Insectes. Tom. II, Stockholm, 

 1771. 



Contains accounts and figures of Sphinx ( = Algeria) apiformis (p. 227, pi. ii, fig. 11), and Sphinx (— Sesia) 

 tipuliformis (p. 230, pi. ii, fig. 12). [9] 



1773. Muller, P. L. S. Vollstandiges Natursystem, nach der Zwolften lateinischen Ausgabe und 



nach anleitungdes Hollandischen Houttuynischen Werkes, etc. Theil V, Niirnberg, 1773. 



Brief descriptions (p. 644) of Sphinx (— Algeria) apiformis and Sphinx ( — Sesia) tipuliformis. [10] 



1775. Fabricius, Johann Christian. Systema Entomologiae, etc. Flegensburgi et Lipsiae, 1775. 



Erects the genus Sesia (p. 549) for the following species : S. tantalus, hylas, stellatarum, thy she, fuciformis, 



apiformis, hamiorrhoidalis, culiciformis, and tipuliformis. [n] 



1775. Fuessly, Johann Caspar. Verzeichniss der ihm bekannten Schweizerischen Insecten. 

 Zurich, 1775. 

 Records (p. 33) Sphinx (= Algeria) apiformis from Switzerland. [12] 



1775. Rottenburg, S. A. von. Anmerkungen zu den Hufnagelschen Tabellen der Schmetterlinge. 

 Der Naturforscher, Sttick VII, 1775. 

 Critical notes on the species mentioned by Hufnagel (1766). States that his Sphinx vespiformis=apiformis 

 and S. salmachus=tipuliformis (p. 108). [13] 



1775. Denis, Michael, und Schiffermuller, Ignaz. Verzeichniss der Schmetterlinge der 



Wiener Gegend. Wien, 1775. 



Record (p. 305) Sphinx crabroniformis (— Algeria apiformis), and (p. 544) Sphinx (— Sesia) tipuliformis 

 from the vicinity of Vienna. [14] 



1776. Sulzer, Johann Heinrich. Abgekurzte Geschichte der Insecten, nach dem Linneischen 



System. 1776. 

 Brief description and figure of Sphinx (= Algeria) apiformis (p. 152, pi. xx, fig. 6). [15] 



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