62G MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPHINGIDjE. 



Hyloicus coniferarum, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 139. no. 1484 (181G). 

 Ancery.v coniferarum, Walker, Lop. Het. viii. p. 224. no. 2 (1856). 

 Sphinx cana, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 19. fig. 1 (1797). 

 EUema coniferarum, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 27 (1873). 



Georgia (Abbot). B,M ' 



I am glad to see this species referred by Mr. Grote to EUema, that being unquestionably 



the true position for it; our example agrees far better with Abbot's figure than with 



the description of E. harrisii ; it is certainly S. cana of Martyn. 



2. Ellema harrisii. 



EUema harrisii, Clemens, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1859, p. 188 ; Lintner, Rep. New- York 



St. Cab. xxiii. pp. 170, 171, pi. 8. figs. 8-11 (1872). 

 EUema (sic) harrisii, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 37 (1864). 

 Sphinx coniferarum, Harris (nee Sm. & Abb.), Sill. Journ. vol. xxxvi. p. 297 (183!)). 

 EUema harrisi (sic), Morris, Syn. N.-Am. Lep. Sm. Ins. p. 216 (1862). 



"Atlantic District!" (Grote). 



The larva of this species is described at p. 272 of Packard's ' Guide.' 



3. Ellema pineum. 



Ellema pineum, Lintner, Rep. New-York St. Cab. xxiii. p. 169, pi. 8. figs. 12, 13 (1871). 



Canada. 



The larva of this species is described by Lintner. 



Genus 23. Lapara 1 , Walker. 

 Lapara, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 232. gen. 33 (1856). 



Lapara bombycoides. 

 Lapara bombycoides, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 233. no. 1 (1856). 



Canada. 



But for Mr. Walker's description of the body of this species as " body rather slender " 

 and " abdomen linear " I should have been inclined to think the species a male Ellema ; 

 as 1 have not seen males of that genus it may possibly be so. 



Genus Himantoides, n. gen. 



Himantoides undata. 

 Perigonia undata, Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 103. no. 6 (1856). 



Jamaica. T >'P e > BM " 



1 See Mr. Groto's remarks in Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 28 (1*73). 



