Mil. A. G. BUTLEE ON THE SPHINGUXE. 599 



not tufted ; primaries less pointed at apex ; discocellulars more transverse ; secondaries 

 broader and more rounded at apex. 



TATOGLOSSUM CARICjE. 

 Sphinx caricce, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 350 (1764). 

 Erinnyis caricce, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 139. no. 1493 (1816) . 

 Sphinx cacus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 73, pi. 46. fig. E (1782). 



<S ? , Colombia 1 (Parzudaki). B.M. 



• 

 Genus 2. Amphonyx, Poey. 

 Amphonyx, Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba (1832). 



1. Ampiionyx duponchel. 



Amphonyx duponchel, Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba (1832). 

 Maci'osilia duponchel, Herricb-Schaffer, Corr.-Blatt, 1865, p. 59. 

 Macrosilia antams (part.), Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 200. no. 1 (1856). 



<S ? , Haiti (Tweedie) ; ? , Jamaica (Gosse). B.M. 



2. Ampiionyx rivularis. (Plate XCIV. fig. 6.) 

 Amphonyx rivularis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 11. no. 22. 



? d , ] ; 6 , Ega {Bates). Type, B.M. 



3. Amphonyx Antaeus. 



<J, Sphinx antams, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 43, pi. 25. fig. 2 (1773). 



Amphonyx antams, Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba, Dec. 1 (1832). 



Macrosila antams (part.), Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 200. no. 4 (1856). 



Macrosila anthaiis (sic), Herrich-Schaffer, Corr.-Blatt, 1865, p. 59. 



Sphinx iatropha;, Pabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 538. no. 8 (1775). 



Cocytius iatropha, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 140. no. 1497 (1816). 



Ancistror/nuthus iatropha;, Wallengren, Ofvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Forhaudl. 1858, p. 138. 



?, Haiti (Tweedie). B.M. 



4. Ampiionyx medor. 



$ , Sphinx medor, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 215, pi. 394. fig. A (1782). 



<S $ , Mexico (Hartweg). B.M. 



This species is altogether darker in colouring than the preceding ; the body is of a 

 dark gunpowder-grey tint, on which the orange spots stand out very vividly. 



5. Amphonyx hydaspus. 



? , Sphinx hydaspus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 31, pi. 118. fig. A (1779). 

 Sphinx hydaspes, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pbil. v. p. 66 (1865). 



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