618 ME. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGID^E. 



2. Sphinx leucoph^eata. 



Sphinx leucophceata, Clemens, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1859, p. 168. 

 Sphinx lugens (part.), Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 219. no. 11 (1856). 



Oaxaca, Mexico {Hartweg). B.M. 



3. Sphinx lugens. 



Sphinx lugens, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 219. no. 11 (1856). 

 Sphinx andromedte, Boisduval, Lep. Guat. p. 74 (1870). 



Oaxaca, Mexico {Hartweg). '-type* B.M. 



Although coming from the same locality as the preceding, and very like it in its 

 general characters, I believe this species to be quite distinct. It is altogether shorter, 

 broader, and darker, and has the pale bars of secondaries much narrower and whiter. 



4. Sphinx jasminearum. 



Sphinx jasminearum, Boisduval, Griffith's Anim. Kingd. vol. ii. pi. 83. fig. 1 (1832). 

 New York, Pennsylvania. 



5. Sphinx vancouverensis. 



Sphinx vancouverensis, H. Edwards, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. v. p. Ill (1874). 

 Esquimault, Vancouver Island {Bremner). 

 Taken in August 1871. It seems closely allied to S. gordius. 



6. Sphinx gordius. 



Sphinx gordius , Cramer, Pap. Exot. vol. iii. p. 91, pi. 247. fig. B (1782). 

 Lethia gordius, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 141. no. 1512 (1816). 

 Sphinx pcecila, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. i. p. 222 (1828). 



United States {Doulleday) ; North America {Jones). B.M. 



I cannot see any reason for separating this generically from Sphinx. 



7. Sphinx luscitiosa. 



Sphinx luscitiosa, Clemens, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 172 (1859). 

 Lethia luscitiosa, Grote, Bull. Buft'. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 28 (1873). 



New York ; Wisconsin. 



8. Sphinx oreodaphne. 



Sphinx oreodaphne, H. Edwards, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. v. p. 109 (1874). 



California. 



Henry Edwards says: — "Taken on the wing, about flowers of Californian Laurel 

 {Oreodaphne calif ornica), near St. Helena, Napa County,^ in June 1872. A strongly 



