SPHINGIDJC CASTNIID.^. 
389 
Sphinx convolvuli. On the larva and its habits ; W. Buckler, Ent. M. M. 
ix. pp. 286-289. 
Sphinx atropos possesses a tuft of hairs on the first abdominal segments 
which it can erect when uttering its cry ; the cry seems to be produced 
by the contraction of the muscles at the base of this. There is a horny 
scale at the junction of the femur and tibia in the front legs of the $ , 
which may assist in grasping the $ . Laboulbene, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) 
iii. pp. 537-54:1. Both sexes utter a cry : M. Girard, op. cit. Bull. p. ccxxi. 
Smerinthus. Strecker (Lepidoptera, pt. vii. pp. 51-60, pi. vii.) mono- 
graphs the N. American species, admitting 10, of which one is new. The 
others are S. juglandis, A. & S., p. 53, figs. 12 & 13, exccecata, A. & S., 
p. 54, figs. 1 & 2, mi/ops, A. & S., p. 55, fig. 9, astylus, p. 56, fig. 10, 
geminatus, Say, figs. 6 & 7 (and var. jamaicensis, Drury, p. 57, fig. 8, 
which [has priority, but] really occurs at New York and in Maryland), 
ophthalmicus, Boisd., p. 58, figs. 4 & 5, cerisyi^ Kirb., p. 59, fig. 3, modesta, 
Harr., p. 60, fig. 11. A figure of a hybrid between ocellatus and popuU 
(fig. 15) is added ; also criticisms on G-rote's remarks on the genus. 
Smerinthus populeti, Bienert, is probably a southern var. of S. populi, 
H. Christoph, 1. c. 
Laothoe^ Fab. Grote proposes to restrict this name to Smerinthus populi 
and allies, I. c. p. 24. 
Ellema harrisi, Clem., probably = Lapara hombycoides, Walk. ; id. I. c. 
p. 28. 
Calasymholus^ g. n., id. I. c. p. 23. Allied to Smerinthus ; type, Sphinx 
astylus, Drury. 
Hemaris tenuis^ p. 4, pi. i. fig. 6, Pennsylvania, marginalis^ p. 6, pi. ii. 
fig. 10, JVIichigan, Grote, I. c. spp. nn. 
Amhulyx constrigilis, sp. n.. Walker, Tr. N. H. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 328, 
Congo. 
Basiana suffusa, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 329, Congo. 
Daphnusa misJcini, sp. n., R. P. Murray, Cist. Ent. vii. p. 178, Queens- 
land. 
Smerinthus pallens, Strecker, Lepidoptera, p. 54, pi. vii. fig. 14, Texas ; 
S. subjectus, Walker, I. c. p. 328, Congo. 
On the habits, &c., of the British species; E. G. Meek, Ent. M. M. x. 
pp. 160-162. 
IjRANllDJi;. 
Urania fulgens. On its annual migration from east to west in August 
and September across the isthmus of Panama ; Nature, viii. p. 536. 
Urania rhipheus. On its transformations, cf. Sganzin & Boisduval, Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. p. ccxx. 
Thaliura criesus, Gerstacker, figured and re-described ; V. d. Decken's 
Reisen, iii. pt. 2, p. 383, pi. xvi. fig. 4. 
Castniidjo. 
Eusemia pardalina, sp. n., Walker, 1. c. p. 329, pi. v. fig. 1, Congo. 
