546 MR. A. a. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGLILE. 



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3. Otus myrox. 



Sphinx myron, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 91, pi. 247. fig. C (1782). 

 Otus myron, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schrnett. p. 142 (1816). 

 Darapsa myron, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 183. no. 2 (1856). 

 Sphinx pampinatrix, Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georg. vol. i. p. 55, pi. 28 (1797). 



Charocampa pampinatrix, Harris, Sill. Journ. vol. xxxvi. p. 301 (1839) ; Scudder, Harris's Corre- 

 spondence, p. 283, pi. 1. fig. 10 (1869). 

 Otus cnotus, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schrnett. Zutrage, figs. 321, 322 (1823). 



United States (Doubleday). B.M. 



The transformations of 0. myron are figured and described in the ' American Ento- 

 mologist,' vol. ii. pp. 22-24. 



4. Otus versicolor. 



Charocampa versicolor, Harris, Sill. Joum. vol. xxxvi. p. 303 (1839). 

 Darapsa versicolor, Clemens, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1859, p. 148. 

 Otus versicolor, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 1865, p. 81. 



" Atlantic District ! " (Grote). 



The larva feeds on Cephalanthus occidentalis (see TV. H. Edwards, Canad. Ent. ii. 

 p. 134). 



5. Otus pholus. 



Sphinx pholus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 137, pi. 87. fig. B (1779). 

 Darapsa pholus, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 184 (1856). 

 Otus pholus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. p. 81 (1865). 



" West Indies " (Cramer). 



Genus 3. Ampelophaga, Bremer & Grey. 

 Ampelophaga, Bremer & Grey, Beitr. Schmett.-Fauna nordlichen China's, p. 11 (1853). 



1. Ampelophaga rubiginosa. (Plate XCI. figs. 4, 5.) 



Ampelophaga rubiginosa, Bremer & Grey, Beitr. zur Schrnett. -Fauna nordl. China's, p. 11. no. 52 



(1853). 

 Deilephila rubiginosa, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 173. no. 18 (1856). 

 Charocampa rubiginosa, Menetries, Enum. Corp. Anim. Mus. Imp. Acad. Sci. Petrop. ii. p. 91. no. 



1513, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1857). 



Pekin; Japan (Lewis). B.M. 



I have examined a specimen of this species taken by Mr. Lewis in Japan. It appears 

 to be more nearly allied to the genus Otus of Hiibner than to any thing else. I have 

 also seen an example with a doubtful locality in Mr. Moore's collection. The larva, which 

 feeds on a very common large-leaved creeping plant, is dark green at the sides, irrorated 



