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2. LlNTNERIA ! PERELEQANS. 



Sphinx perelegans, H. Edwards, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. v. p. 109 (Jan. 1874). 



Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California (G. B. Crotch). 



Mr. Henry Edwards says : — " This beautiful specimen closely resembles Sph. eremitus, 

 Walk., of the Atlantic States, but is readily known by its more brilliant grey colouring, 

 by the very sharply defined demi-bands, and by the strongly marked whitish submarginal 

 band of the fore wings." 



3. LlNTNERIA ] EREMITOIDES. 



Sphinx eremitoides, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. p. 93 (1874) . 



Kansas. 



Very briefly described, and, owing to Mr. Strecker's incomprehensible affection for 

 unmanageably extensive genera, described as a Sphinx, without a hint as to its struc- 

 tural characters. In the same page he described a Hemaris as a Macroglossa, which 

 at first fairly puzzled me, it not being a New-World genus ; but, fortunately, he 

 observed that it was allied to M. diffinis (one of the most typical species of Hemaris), 

 which at once enlightened me. 



Mr. Grote thinks it probable that S. eremitoides is = S. lugens of Walker ; but 

 (judging from Mr. Grote's previous papers on the Sphingidse) I am doubtful whether 

 he knows the S. lugens of Walker. It is certain that Clemens did not ; for he separated 

 it by a wide interval from his *S'. leucophceata. 



Genus 19. Ceratomia, Harris. 

 Ceratomia, Harris, Sill. Jonrn. vol. xxxvi. p. 293 (1839). 



&\_1. Ceratomia amyntor. 



Agrius amyntor, Hiibner, Sainml. exot. Schmett. ii. (1806) . 



Ceratomia amyntor, Grote and Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v. p. 164. no. 89 (1865). 



Ceratomia quadricomis , Harris, Sill. Jonrn. xxxyi. p. 293 (1839). 



United States (Doubleday) ; Massachusetts (Sheppard) ; Mexico (Salle). B.M. 



2. Ceratomia hageki. 

 Ceratomia hageni, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 149 (1874). 

 Texas. 



