422 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



Rouen, etc. (Viret), St. Quentin (Dubus), Deux- Sevres (Maillard), Sarthe (Desportes), 

 Paris (Walker), Loire-Inferieure, common— -Chapelle-sur-Endre, Nantes, Savenay, 

 Montmorency, near Paris, common (Bonjour), Le Havre (Dupont), depts. 

 Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse (teste Bartel), Aix-les-Bains, common (Agassiz), 

 Germany : common (Heinemann), northwest Germany, generally distributed 

 (Jordan), everywhere in Silesia (Assmann), Rhine Palatinate, rare (Bertram), 

 Wurtemberg (Seyffler), Giessen (Dickore), Lower Elbe district (Zimmermann), 

 Waldeck (Speyer), Erfurt (Keferstein), Zeitz-on-the-Elster (Wilde), Chemnitz (Pabst), 

 Halle (Stange), Munich, not common (Kranz). Hildesheim, common (Grote), 

 Rudolstadt (Meurer), Mecklenburg (Schmidt), Bremen (Rehberg), Saxon Upper 

 Lusatia, common (Schutze), Dresden (Steinert), Thuringia— in the plains and lower 

 mountains not rare— near Erfurt, Gotha, common (Krieghoff), Prussia, common 

 (Grentzenberg), Upper Lusatia, common everywhere (Moeschler), Ratisbon 

 (Schmid), Pomerania, not rare (Hering), Dessau (Richter), Frankfort-on-Oder 

 (Kretschmer), Hanover, moderately common (Glitz), Wernigorode (Fischer), Alsace 

 (Peyerimhoff) , Brunswick (Heinemann), Eutin (Dabl), Stuttgart (Hoffmann and 

 Keller), Baden district, generally — Constance, Carlsruhe, very common (Reutti), 

 near Heidelberg (Baker), Heligoland (Gatke), Berlin, Holstein— Plon, Crefeld, 

 Barmen, Elberfield, somewhat common, Cassel, Leipzig, Friedewald, common, 

 Fichtel-Gebirge, Kissingen, Augsburg, not rare, Kempten, Nassau, Frankfort-on- 

 Main, Wiesbaden, Wetterau, Bavarian Palatinate (teste Bartel). Italy: fairly 

 common except Sardinia and Corsica (Curd), throughout Tuscany — Roman Campagna 

 — Monte Rotondo, near Rome (Calberla), Modena (Fiori), Naples district— Castel- 

 lam mare di Stabia on the Gulf of Naples, Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria [teste Bartel), 

 Madonie, somewhat rare (wrongly noted byStaudinger as not occurring in Sicily) (Mma- 

 Palumbo). Netherlands: in all provinces, common (Snellen), Breda, very common 

 (Heylaerts). Portugal [teste Bartel). Roumania: quite rai'e, Grumazesti (abundant 

 in 1895), Kloster Neamtz, Slanic (Caradja). Comanesti (Leon), Ciucorova in the 

 Dobrudscha (Mann). Russia : Moscow govt. (Albrecht), Volga disti-ict, not 

 rare (Eversmann), Transcaucasia — Borjom, Manglis, Lagodekhi (Romanoff), St. 

 Petersburg (ErschofF), Baltic Provinces, very rare — Sessau (Voigt), Mitau (Bienert), 

 Groesen (Rosenberger), govts. Archangel, Oblonez, Oranienbaum, Narwa, Pskow, 

 Mogilew — Gorki, Wolynien, Kijew, Bessarabia, Cherson, Jekatinerinoslaw, Poltawa, 

 Charkow, Orel, Kaluga, Tambow, Kasan, Simbirsk, Ufa, Orenburg, Samara, 

 Saratov, Astrachan — Sarepta, not rare; Tawritschesk, Stavropol, north Caucasus 

 [teste Bartel). Scandinavia : not rare in south, northern limits Upland and south 

 Finland (Aurivillius), Norway — Christiania, Drammen, Odalen, Naes Vaerk 

 (Siebke) ; southern Sweden to Upland, southern Norway (Lampa). Spain : Teruel — 

 Rubielos de Mora (Zapater), Galicia (Macho-Velado), Barcelona — Besos, Calella 

 (Cuni y Martorell), Catalonia (Martorell y Pena), Bilbao (Seebold). Switzerland : 

 Weissenburg (Huguenin), Grisons, rather rare — Chur, Bergell, etc. (Killias), Visp 

 valley (Jordan), Aigle (Lowe), Zermatt, Gadmenthal from 2000ft. — 2500ft., canton 

 Glarus [teste Bartel), Bern, common (Knecht), Bechburg (Riggenbach-Stehlin), 

 Zurich district — Mettmenstatten, Zurichberg (Dietrich). 



Tribe : Smerinthidi. 

 This appears to be the most extensive tribe of the Amorphids. It 

 is a higher branch of this phylum than the Sichiid or "querciis" group, 

 and very distinct from the Amorphid (sens, strict.) or "popuW group. 

 The tribe is exceedingly well-developed in the Nearctic region, 

 and contains a number of closely-allied and interesting genera. The 

 characteristic marking of the imagines is the ocellated spot on 

 the hindwings. Bacot notes that Smerinthus (ocellata) and Amorplia 

 (populi) appear to have arisen from a form possessing the 

 characteristic anal angle wing-mark very much as is now seen in 

 Sichia quercus, through a long series of less specialised forms now 

 represented by occidentalis and modesta towards Amorpha populi and 

 through another series now represented by Burrowsia roseipennis and 

 Daddia kindermanni to Smerinthus ocellata. The anal-angle hindwing 

 marking and colouring of the species of the <///cvr//.9-group, e.g., 

 B. roseipennis, become in D. kindermanni a double series of blue and 

 black bars (black, blue, black, blue) ; these bars, strengthened 

 vertically, and the black encroaching on the blue at the ends and 



