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Dome (Guillemot), Var (Cantener), Morbihan — Vannes, fairly common, Ploermel, 

 rare (Griffith), Gironde, throughout (Trimoulet), Doubs (Bruand), Aude (Mabille), 

 Loire-Inferieure, occasionally— Savenay, Nantes, La Chapelle-sur-Erdre (Bonjour), 

 Saone-et-Loire, occasionally (Constant), Indre, near Blanc, not very rare (Martin), 

 Deux-Sevres (Maillard*, Sarthe (Desportes), Digne, Marseilles, Aix, Pyrenees 

 (Speyer), Cauterets, Montlouis, Hyeres, Rennes (Oberthiir), Montpellier (Chabrier), 

 Cannes (Milliere), Dax (Lafaury), Chartres (Guenee), Eastern Pyrenees — Gavarnie, at 

 4600ft., Mont Cenis (teste Bartel), Paris suburbs (Lucas). St. Cloud (Godart). 

 Germany : only singly (Heinemann), Wurtemberg, rare (Seyffler), Stuttgart, 

 Reutlingen (Hoffmann), Alsace— near Huningue, La Vancelle (Berce), Miilhausen 

 odd ones at Strasburg, &c. (Peyerimhoff), Hesse— Walderhausen, one (Glaser), Meck- 

 lenburg — Wismar, one (Schmidt), Bremen, one — Lilienthal (Rehberg), Thuringia, oc- 

 asional — Rudolstadt, several in 1883, Gberhain-bei-Konigsee, Georgenthal, Gotha 

 (Krieghoff), Erfurt (Knapp), Nassau, occasionally (Rossler), Saxon Upper Lusatia — 

 Bautzen, one, Lichtenau, one (Moeschler), Posen— Ostrowo, Miinster, Dresden, 

 Aix, Weilburg, Offenbach (Speyer), Burghausen (Schrank), Chemnitz, as a 

 visitor (Pabst), Berlin district, occasional ^Pfiitznen, Silesia — Hirschberger Thai, 

 near Tannhausen in Riesen-Gebirge, Mittelwalde an der Glatzer Neisse, Brieg, 

 Breslau, Oels (Wocke), Magdeburg, Crefeld, Duisburg, Gottingen, Penig, Leipzig, 

 Augsburg, Burghausen on the Salzach, Partenkirchen, Kempten, Memmingen [teste 

 Bartel), Wurtemberg -Reutlingen, Stuttgart, rare (teste Bartel), Baden, very rare — 

 near Constance, Waldshut, Freiburg, Dinglingen, Carlsruhe, Heidelberg (Reutti), 

 Frankfort-on-Main, Nassau — Wiesbaden (teste Bartel), Moselweiss, near Coblenz, 

 Laubachthal, Rohrerberg, Bavarian Palatinate (teste Bartel). Greece : Attica, rare, 

 Corfu (Staudinger), Patras (Fletcher), also in Mediterranean 100 miles from coast of 

 Greece (Fletcher). Italy: throughout, not common in the north (Curd), Modena 

 (Fiori), Sicily, somewhat rare — Madonie, Palermo, Monreale, Syracuse, Pantellaria, 

 Anapo, Mondello,Palla-gutta valley (Mina-Palumbo), Roman Campagna.not common, 

 near Boscolungo, very common (Calberla), Mont Cenis Pass, flying over by day, Lom- 

 bard}-, Piedmont, Liguria, Tuscany, very common — near Leghorn, Florence, &c, 

 Naples (teste Bartel), Sardinia (Dahl), Aranci Bay (Fletcher). Malta (Fletcher). 

 Portugal: Lisbon (Petiver). Koumania : probably everywhere, in certain 

 years common — Kloster Neamtz, Grumazesti, Costischa, Comanesti, Bucharest 

 (Caradja). Russia : Moscow govt., Ivanovsk, one (Assmuss), Crimea — Alupka 

 (Melioransky), Caucasia (Eichwald), district of Lower Volga — govt. Kasan, 

 Sarepta, common, in the Achtuba steppes, Caspian coast, not rare (Evers- 

 mann), Transcaucasia, distributed — Tiflis, Borjom, Derbent (Romanoff), Aps- 

 cheron (teste Bartel), Circassian provinces (Kolonati). Scandinavia : Oster- 

 gothland, one (Aurivillius), Hofby, one (Thedenius), Eneby (Kindberg). Spain : 

 Andalusia — plains of Malaga, abundant (Rambur), Barcelona — San Gervasio, 

 Calella (Cuni y Martorell), Gibraltar (Walker), Bilbao (Seebold), Tragacete 

 (Chapman). Switzerland : throughout, usually rare, occasionally more 

 abundant in spring or autumn as an immigrant — Wolleshofen, near 

 Zurich, common 1883 (Paul), Chur (Caflisch), Weissenburg, one (Hugu- 

 enin), Bechburg (Riggenbach-Stehlin), Grisons— Chur, Flims, Serneus (Killias), 

 Berne, Sollalex alp at foot of the Diablere's (Brown), Basel, Neuen- 

 burger See (Couleru), Schiipfen (Rothenbach), Gadmen — Steinalp to 6200ft. 

 (Ratzer), the Aargau and Solothuru Juras, Lenzburg (Wullschlegel), Wipkinge, 

 near Zurich (Zeller), Winterthur district (Biedermann), Plafters (Eisenring), St. 

 Gallen, Canton Glarus (Heer), Mederaner-Thal (Wullschlegel), Uri, Vicosoprano, 

 in Bergell (Zeller), Celerina, in Upper Engadine (Mengelbir). Turkey: Both 

 European and Asiatic sides of Sea of Marmora, Gallipoli (Mathew). 



Genus : Celerio, Oken. 



Synonymy.— Genus : Celerio, Oken, " Lehrb. Zool.," i., p. 761 (1815) ; 

 Tutt, "Brit. Lep.," hi., p. 355 (1902). Sphinx, [Linn., " Sys. Nat.," xiith. ed., p. 

 802 (1767);] Rott., " Naturf.," vii., p. 107 (1775); Fab., "Spec. Ins.," ii., p. 

 147(1781); "Mant.," ii., p. 95 (1787); "Ent. Syst.," hi., pt. 1, p. 368 (1793) ; 

 [Schiff.,] "Schmett. Wien.," p. 42 (1775); Ill.'s n. Ausg., p. 14 (1801) ; Esp., 

 "Schmett. Eur. f " ii., p. 173, pi. xxi (1779) ; Bergstr., " Sphing. Larv.," p. 8 

 (1782); Retz., "Gen. et Spec. Ins.," p. 34 (1783); Bork., " Sys. Besch.," pp. 

 81, 140, 179 (1789), Brahm, '• Insectenkal.," ii., p 314 (1791 ) ; Hb., li Eur. 

 Schmett.," fig. 64 (1796) ; "Larvae Lep.," ii., Sph. iii., Legit. B. d., fig. 2 a — b 

 (circ. 1800) ; text p. 96 {circ. 1805) ; Schrk , "Faun. Boica," ii., pt. 1, p. 226 (1801) ; 

 Latr., " Hist. Nat.," xiv., p. 131 (1805) ; Ochs., ^Die Schmett.," ii., p. 217 (1808) ; 

 [Leach, " Edin. Encycl.," ix., p. 131 (1815) ;] Dalm., "Vet. Ak. Handl.," xxxvii., 



