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



This species is certainly distinct; Cramer's figures of A. medor and A. hijdaspus are 

 evidently both taken from female examples ; the white spots are most distinctive. 



6. Amphonyx cluentius. 



Sphinx cluentius, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 124, pi. 78. fig. B (1779). 

 Phlegethontius cluentius, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 140. no. 1500 (1816). 

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

 Macrosila cluentius, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 200. no. 3 (1856). 



Brazil (Saunders) ; Eio Janeiro (Stevens) ; Haiti (Tweed 'ie). B.M. 



Genus 3. Anceryx, Walker (restricted) 1 . 

 Anceryx, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 222. gen. 29 (1856). 



1. Anceryx alope. 



? , Sphinx alope, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist. i. p. 58, pi. 27. fig. 1 (1770). 



Jamaica. 



Comparing this species with the various allied but distinct forms in the genus Dilo- 

 phonota, several of them sent by the same collector from Oaxaca, Mexico, I cannot 

 believe that Drury 's figure can be so gross as to be a representation of the Sphinx alope 

 of Cramer ; not only is the banding and coloration of the primaries utterly different, but 

 the body is both described and represented as "clay-coloured;" I therefore adopt Swain- 

 son's name of Sphinx fasciata for Cramer's insect. 



2. Anceryx fasciata. 



<£, Sphinx fasciata, Swainson, Zool. 111. 2nd ser. vol. iii. pi. 150 (1823). 



? , Sphinx alope, Cramer (nee Drury), Pap. Exot. iv. p. 23, pi. 301. fig. G (1782). 

 Erinnyis alope, Hiibner, "Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 139. no. 1492 (1816). 

 Dilophonota alope, Burmeister, Abhandl. naturf. Gcsellsch. Halle, p. 70. no. 2 (1855). 

 Anceryx alope, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 225. no. 6 (1856). 



<S 9, Haiti (Tweedie); Jamaica (Gosse); South America (Milne). B.M. 



1 Allied to Amphonyx ; thorax with a broad and very prominent dorsal tuft, dilatod in front and excavated 

 above ; proboscis long, but shorter than in Amphonyx ; head and thorax projecting a long way in front of pri- 

 maries ; secondaries narrow, especially towards apex. 



