574 ME. A. G. BUTLEE ON THE SPHINGIDjE. 



Genus 17. Philampelus, Harris. 

 Philampelus, Harris, Amer. Journ. Sci. vol. xxxvi. p. 299 (1839). 



Section Dupo, Hiibner. 



1. Philampelus vitis. 



Sphinx vitis, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 354 (1761). 



Philampelus vitis, Harris, Sill. Journ. vol. xxxvi. p. 299 (1839). 



Sphinx fasciatus, Sulzer, Gesch. Ins. p. 151, pi. 20. fig. 1 (1776). 



Philampelus fasciatus, Herricb-Schaffer, Corr.-Blatt. 1865, p. 58. 



£ Eumorpha e/eaans jussieua , Hiibner, Samml. exot. Scbmett. i. pi. 169. figs. 1, 2 (1806). 



? Dupojussieua, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Scbmett. ii. pi. 163. figs. 3, 4 (1806). 



Philampelus jussieua>, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 177. no. 6 (1856). 



Mexico (Salle) ; west coast of South America (Kellet & Wood) ; Haiti (Tioeedie) ; 

 Jamaica (Redman, Gosse) ; Brazil (Stevens). B.M. 



Mr. Grote has very rightly restored Linne's name to this species, the figure referred 

 to in the original description (Merian, Surin. 47, t. 47. f. 1 — that is, the upper figure) 

 being evidently intended for the S. fasciatus of Sulzer (Eumorpha jussieuo?, Hiibn.). 



2. Philampelus linnei. 



Philampelus linnei, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v. pp. 157, 179, 182, pi. 3. fig. 3 



(1865). 

 Sphinx vitis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. vol. iii. pi. 268. fig. E (1782). 

 Dupo vitis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 137. no. 1466 (1816). 

 Philampelus vitis, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 176. no. 4 (1856). 

 Philampelus fasciatus, Grote, Notes Cub. Spb., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v. pp. 59, 84 (1865). 



Mexico (Hartioeg); Haiti (Cuming & Tweedie); ? (Stevens). B.M. 



3. Philampelus hornbeckiana. 



Philampelus hornbeckiana, Harris, Cat. N.-Am. Spb., Sill. Journ. p. 299 (1839). 

 " St. Thomas, West Indies." — Harris. 

 Apparently allied to the preceding. 



4. Philampelus strenuus. 



Charocampa strenua, Menetries, Enum. Corp. Anim. Mus. Ac. Sci. Petrop., Ins. L6p. ii. p. 132, pi. 12. 



fig. 3 (1857) ; Walker, Lep. Het., Suppl. i. p. 30 (1864). 

 Philampelus strenuus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v. pp. 60, 157 (1865) . 



" Haiti." — Menetreis. 



Allied to P. linnei. 



