MI*. A. G. BUTLEli ON THE SPHINGID.E. 621 



2. LlNTNERIA 1 PERELEQANS. 



Sphinx per elegans, H. Edwards, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. v. p. 109 (Jan. 1874). 



Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California (G. R. Crotch). 



Mr. Henry Edwards says : — " This beautiful specimen closely resembles Sph. (fremitus, 

 Walk., of the Atlantic States, but is readily known by its more brilliant grey colouring, 

 by the very sharply defined demi-bands, and by the strongly marked whitish submarginal 

 band of the fore wings." 



3. LlNTNERIA? EREMITOIDES. 



Sphinx eremitoides, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. p. 93 (1874). 



Kansas. 



Very briefly described, and, owing to Mr. Strecker's incomprehensible affection for 

 unmanageably extensive genera, described as a Sphinx, without a hint as to its struc- 

 tural characters. In the same page he described a Hemaris as a Macroglossa, which 

 at first fairly puzzled me, it not being a New- World genus; but, fortunately, he 

 observed that it was allied to M. (tiffin is (one of the most typical species of Hemaris), 

 which at once enlightened me. 



Mr. Grote thinks it probable that S. eremitoides is = S. lugens of Walker ; but 

 (judging from Mr. Grote's previous papers on the Sphingida?) I am doubtful whether 

 he knows the S. lugens of Walker. It is certain that Clemens did not ; for he separated 

 it by a wide interval from his S. leucophceata. 



Genus 19. Ceratomia, Harris. 

 Ceratomia, Harris, Sill. Journ. vol. xxxvi. p. 293 (1839). 



1. Ceratomia amyntor. 



Agrius amyntor, Hiibncr, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. (1806) . 



Ceratomia amyntor, Grote aud Robinsou, Proc. Ent. Soc. Ph.il. vol. v. p. 164. no. 89 (1865). 



Ceratomia quadricornis, Harris, Sill. Journ. xxxvi. p. 293 (1839). 



United States (Doubleday) ; Massachusetts (ISheppard) ; Mexico (Salle). B.M. 



2. Ceratomia hageni. 



Ceratomia hageni, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 149 (1874). 

 Texas. 



