264 CATALOGUE OF 



Sphinx ? Tisiphone. 



Alee anticce cinerece, vitta pallida; posticce supra nigra, basi 

 rubrce. 



Sphinx Tisiphone, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. 359. Gmel. ed. Syst. 

 Nat. i. 5, 2386, 23. 



Hindostan. 



Sphinx ? pagan a. 



Alee cinereo nebulosce; posticce supra disco ferrugineo. 



Sphinx pagana, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 146, 29 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 95, 32. 

 Gmel. ed. Sijst. Nat. i. 5, 2385, 92. 



Sphinx?? Ocypete. 



Aim nebulosce, posticce margine postico basali albo. 



Sphinx Ocypete, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. 344. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. 

 i. 5, 2373, 4. 



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Genus AECTONOTUS. 



Arctonotus, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Ser. x. 



Mas. Corpus crassum, pilosissimum. Proboscis brevissima 

 aut obsoleta. Palpi validi, brevissiini, pilosissimi. Antennas ro- 

 bustae, serratae, valde pubesceutes, tborace multo longiores. Abdo- 

 men longi-obconicum, tborace vix longius. Pedes validi, pilosi : 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor parvis. Ala? mediocriter lata?, non 

 longae, vix denticulatae, satlatae ciliatae; anticae apud costam recta?, 

 vix acuminates, margine exteriore sat obliquo vix convexo ; posticae 

 apiee rotundatae. 



Male. Body thick, very pilose. Proboscis very short, obsolete. 

 Palpi stout, very short and pilose. Antennae thick, serrate, very pu- 

 bescent, much longer than the thorax. Abdomen elongate-obconi- 

 cal, hardly longer than the thorax. Legs stout, pilose ; hind tibiae 

 with four rather short spurs. Win^s moderately broad, not long, 

 hardly denticulated, rather deeply ciliated. Fore wings straight in 

 front, slightly acuminated, rather oblique and slightly convex along 

 the exterior border ; second inferior vein nearer to the third than to 

 the first ; third rather further from the fourth than from the first. 

 Hind wings much rounded at the tips. 



This genus appears to connect Smerinthus with the Bombycidee* 



