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5. Philampelus typhon. • 



Sphinx typhon, Klug, Ncue Schmett. Heft i. pi. 3. fig. 1 (1836) . 

 Philampelus typhon, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 177. no. 5 (1856). 



Mexico (Donbleday). B.M. 



Section Philampelus (Harris), Grote. 

 Philampelus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 21 (1873). 



6. Philampelus achemon. 



Sphinx achemon, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. 51, pi. 29. fig. 1 (1773). 



Philampelus achemon, Harris, Sill. Journ. vol. xxxvi. p. 300 (1839) ; Scudder, Harris Corresp. p. 283, 



pi. 3. fig. 11 (1869). 

 Sphinx crantor, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 11, pi. 104.. fig. A (1779). 

 Pholus crantor, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schuiett. p. 134. no. 1435 (1816). 



New York (Donbleday). B.M. 



Transformations figured (Am. Ent. ii. pp. 22-24, 1870). 



7. Philampelus posticatus. 



Philampelus posticatus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v. p. 62 (1865). 

 Pholus licaon, Hiibner (nee Cramer), Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 160. figs. 3, 4 (1806). 

 Philampelus lycaon (part.), Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v. p. 157. no. 54 (1865). 

 Philampelus sateUilia (part.), Walker (nee Linnaeus), Lep. Het. viii. p. 175. no. 3 (1856). 



Bolivia (Bridges). B.M. 



The rose colour at anal angle of secondaries is more strongly pronounced in our ex- 

 ample than in Hiibner's figure. 



8. Philampelus mirificatus. 



Philampelus (Diipo) mirificatus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 148 (1874). 



Cuba [Wright). 



" Allied to P. posticatus, P. linnei, and P. strenuus ; from all differing by the white 

 linear bands on the fore wings and their apical white line, and by the distinctly white- 

 banded abdomen and tegula;." 



" While nearest to P. posticatits in the appearance of the hind wings, it is most dis- 

 similar in the markings of the primaries, which are more like those of P. linnei in the 

 evenness of the ground-colour." 



9. Philampelus pandorus. 



Daphnis pandorus, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 161. figs. 3, 4. 

 Philampelus pandorus, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 174. no. 1 (1856). 

 Sphinx satellitia 6 , Drury (ncc Linnanis), 111. Nat. Hist. i. pi. xxix. fig. 2 (1770). 

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