530 ME. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGID.E. 



Genus 6. Aellopus, Hiibner. 

 Aellopus, Hiibner, Vera. bek. Schmctt. p. 131 (181G). 



1. Aellopus tantalus. 



Sphinx tantalus, LiimaeuB, Mas. Lud. Ulr. p. 21 (1764). 



Sena tantalus, Pabrioiuflj Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 379. no. 1 (1793). 



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



Macroglossa tantalus, Walker, Lep. Ilet. viii. p. 88. no. 4 (1856). 



Sphinx ixion, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 803. no. 26 (17(i(i). 



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



Sphinx tripanetata, Goeze, Bcytr. 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. 



2. Aellopus fadus. 



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

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

 Macroglossa fadus, Walker, Lep. Hct. 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 (Hartweg) ; Brazil. B.M. 



3. Aellopus blaini. 



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

 Soc. iii. p. 184 (1871). 



Cuba. 



4. AiiLLOPUS SISYPHUS. 



Macroglossa sisyphus, Burmcister, Spb. Bras., Abhandl. naturf. Gesellsch. Halle, p. 74 (1855). 

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



Kio Janeiro. 



5. Aellopus commasi^e. 



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



Sierra Leone (Morgan). iyi )e > 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. 



