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he mixed it up with specimens of his S. tityus, and added a character 

 properly applicable to the latter. (3) In the 12th edition of the Sy sterna 

 Naturae, Linne, discovering that he had mixed two forms, separated 

 the second as ' /3,' distinguishing it by the very character which, 

 from those given, would at once separate his Sphinx tityus as 

 the narrow-bordered bee-hawk, feeding on scabious." Aurivillius, 

 in his " Recensio Lep. Mus. Lud. Ulr.," throws a little further light 

 on the probable determination of Linne's Sphinx tityus. He writes 

 (Sv. Vet. Ak. HandL, xix,, no. 5, p. 170) : "Sphinx tityus, Linn., Syst. 

 Nat., ed. x., p. 493, no. 24. In schedula, quae sine dubio hue 

 pertinet, scriptum est : ' Phalaena Sphinx ano barbato, cingulo 

 nigro. — Statura Bombylii. — Corpus flavum, hirsutum; abdomen versus 

 basin cinctum fascia lata nigra ; pone hanc fasciam a tergo fulvum 

 est abdomen. Cauda atra barba fastigiata, sed supra flavescens. 

 Alse margine nigro. Antennae caeruleo — nigrae, muticae, clavatae.' 

 Haec descriptio adeo bene in Macroglossa (Hemaiis) bombyliformis 

 (Esp.) quadrat, ut verisimiliter ad earn speciem pertineat. Quum 

 autem descriptio a Linne publicata nimium brevis sit, optimium 

 puto, nomen tityus huic speciei non conservari." Staudinger 

 has (Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., xiv., p. 301) a note on the 

 synonymy, in which he states that : (1) The specimen in Linne's 

 collection, labelled ''■fuciformis" in Linne's handwriting, is an example 

 of the " broad-bordered " species. (2) He gathers from the Linnean 

 descriptions that originally fuciformis must have been the " narrow- 

 bordered" species, and bombyliformis the "broad-bordered." (3) In 

 his later works Linne united the two, and attached his label fucifonnis 

 to what was his earlier bombyliformis. The specimens which 

 are extant in Linne's collection give us little assistance ; but 

 it is to be borne in mind that the type of his tityus was 

 probably never in his collection, as the letters " M. L. U." 

 show that it was in that of the Queen of Sweden. The 

 specimen in Linne's cabinet, which actually bears the label 

 fuciformis in his handwriting, is a " broad-border," but an unlabelled 

 specimen of the "narrow-border," apparently of Linne's setting, is 

 present beside it, and as the label has been re-pinned, it may have 

 once been attached to this other specimen, but there is no evidence 

 whatever to show that this was so. 



Genus : Hemaris, Dalman. 



Synonymy. — Genus: Hemaris, Dalm., "Vet. Ak. Handl.," xxxvii., p. 215 

 (1816); Butl., "Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond.," ix., pt. 10, p. 518 (1876); Kirby, "Eur. 

 Butts, and Moths," p. 75, pi. xx., figs. 3 a— c (1879); "Cat.," p. 625 (1892); 

 "Handbook, &c.," iv., pp. 4 — 5 (1897); "Ent.," xxix. f p. 40 (1896); Meyr., 

 "Handbook, &c," p. 294 (1896); Prout, "Ent.," xxxii., p. 60 (1899); Staud., 

 "Cat.," 3rd ed., p. 104 (1901). Sphinx, Linn., " Sys. Nat.," xth ed., p. 493 

 (1758); xiith ed., p. 803 (1767); " Faun. Suec.," ii., p. 289 ( 1 761 ) ; Poda, 

 "Ins. Mus. Grsec.," p. 12, pi. ii., fig. 6 (1761); Scop., "Ent. Cain.," p. 188 

 (1763); Mull., "Faun. Frid.," p. 37 (1764); " Mel. Ac. Sci. Turin," iii., p. 193 

 (1766); "Zool. Dan. Prod.," p. 187 (1776); Hfn., "Bed. Mag.," ii., pp. 184, 

 194(1766); [Schiff,] " Schmett. Wein ," p. 44 (1775); 111- n. Ausg., p. 22 

 (1801) ; Esp., " Schmett. Eur.," ii., p. 118, pi. xiv., fig. 1 (1779); Retz., "Gen. 

 et Spec. Ins.," p. 33 (1783); Geoff., " Fourc. Ent. Paris.," ii., p. 252 (1785); 

 Boric, "Sys. Besch.," ii., pp. 52, 133, 176(1789); E. J. A. D., " Bork. Rheiu. 

 Mag.," p. 313 (1793) ; Don., " Brit. Ins.," iii., p. 37, pi. lxxxvii (1795) ; 

 Hb., "Eur. Schmett.," figs. 55—56 (1796); " Larva? Lep.," ii., Sph. iii., 

 Legit. A. a. fig. 1 a ; A. b., fig. 1 a— d (circ. 1800); text p. 93 (circ. 1805); 

 Panz., "Faun. Ins. Germ.," vi., pt. 69, no. 23 (1798); Schrk., "Faun. Boica," 



