530 ME. A. G. BUTLEE ON THE SPHINGIDJE. 



Genus 6. Aellopus, Hiibner. 

 Aellopus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 131 (1816). 



Off 1. Aellopus tantalus.^ 



Sphinx tantalus, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 21 (1764). 



Sesia tantalus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 379. no. 1 (1793). 



Aellopus tantalus, Hiibner, Samnil. exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 157. figs. 1-4 (1806). 



Macroylossa tantalus, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 88. no. 4 (1856). 



Sphinx ixion, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 803. no. 26 (1766). 



Sphinx zonata, Drury, Ins. Exot. i. p. 57, pi. 26. fig. 5 (1770). 



Sphinx tripunctata, Goeze, Beytr. iii. 2, p. 216. no. 43 (1780). 



Jamaica ( Gosse) ; Haiti (Tweedie) ; St. Thomas. B.M. 



Mr. Walker confounded this with the next species in his Catalogue. 



Q t 2. Aellopus fadus. 



Sphinx f actus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 95, pi. 61. fig. C (1779). 

 Sesia fadus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 378 (1793). 

 Macroylossa fadus, Walker, Lejj. Het. viii. p. 89. no. 7 (1856). 

 Sphinx titan, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 73, pi. 142. fig. F (1779). 

 Aellopus titan, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 41 (1865). 

 Macroglossum annulosum, Swainson, 111. iii. pi. 132. fig. 1 (1823). 



Venezuela (Dyson) ; Mexico (Hartiveg) ; Brazil. B.M. 



3. Aellopus blaini. 



Aellopus blaini, Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. auss. Schin. ii. fig. 553 (1869) ; Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. iii. p. 184 (1871). 



Cuba. 



4. Aellopus sisyphus. 



Macroglossa sisyphus, Burrneister, Sph. Bras., Abhandl. uaturf. Gesellscb. Halle, p. 74 (1855). 

 Aellopus sisyphus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 42 (1865). 



Bio Janeiro. 



5. Aellopus commasle. 



Macroglossa commasice, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 90. no. 9 (1856). 



Sierra Leone (Morgan). '-typ^ B.M. 



This species at first sight looks very like M. tantalus ; but the primaries are destitute 

 of hyaline spots, and the body has two segments blue-white instead of one segment 

 snow-white. 



