SPHINGIDiR. 
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Philampelus capronnieri, Boisd. ; id. 1. c. p. 348. P. vitis, Linn. : 
identification ; id. S. E. Z. xxxvii. pp. 313 & 314. 
Sphinx luscitiosa^ Clem., p. 114, lugens.. Walk., plota, Scudd., jasmi- 
nearum, Boisd., p. 115, coniferarum, A. & S., harrisi, Clem., p. 116, and 
sequoioe, Boisd., p. 117, figured, and generally redescribed, by H. Strecker, 
1. c. pi. xiii, figs. 11-17. S. convolvuli taken in Orkney in 1876; J. T. 
Boswell, Scot. Nat. iii. p. 265 ; Ent. ix. pp. 257 & 258. S* ligustri : M. 
Grirard records a case of “ flaquerie ” in the larva, precisely analogous to 
that well-known disease in the silkworm ; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vi. 
p. clxxix. S. strohi, Boisd., is South African, not Californian ; H. 
Strecker, 1. c. p. 120. 
Anceryx scyron, Cram., is quite distinct from rimosa, Grote ; H. B. 
Moschler, Yerh. z.-b. Wien, xxvi. p. 346. 
Sphinx atropos is an indigenous European species, and not an immi- 
grant, as asserted by Boisduval ; Keferstein, S. E. Z. xxxvii. pp. 236-238. 
SmeHnthus tilicc. A pupa, in which the colours of the imago were 
beginning to appear, was laid on a window-sill exposed to bright sun- 
light. It prematurely produced a $ , which crept away at once from the 
disagreeable situation. Its wings were qnite wet and pale coloured, but 
they dried in a few hours, and assumed their usual colours, but did not 
grow, and the abdomen did not contract nor discharge any fluid. Fully 
three days afterwards, the wings acquired their proper size, and the 
abdomen shrunk to its usual form. Other specimens were disengaged 
from the pupa-skin two or three days before the proper time, but most 
of them, on being placed under a glass with damp sand, became fully 
developed, though sometimes not for a whole day. This species is well 
suited to such experiments, from its robustness, and from the colour of 
the wings showing through the pupa-skin. J. van Leewen, jun.,Tijdschr. 
Ent. xix. pp. cvi. & cvii. 
Basiana postica, Walk., redescribed ; H. D. J. Wallengren, 1. c. p. 94. 
Arctonotus lucidus, Boisd., figured and redescribed by H. Strecker, 1. c. 
p. 113, pi. xiii. fig. 7. 
Ceratomia quadricornis, Harr. Brown variety of larva ; W. Y. Andrews, 
Canad. Ent. viii. p. 40 ; cf. B-. Bunker, op. cit. p. 120. 
New species : — 
Macroglossa ohscuriccps^ A. G. Butler, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 309, pi. xxii. 
fig. 6, Malacca. 
Lophura minima^ id. 1. c. p. 310, pi. xxii. fig. 2, Malacca. 
Pterogon juanita^ H. Strecker, Lepidoptera, p. 112, pi. xiii. fig. 6, 
Mexico or S.W. Texas. 
Deilephila marioe^ H. D. J. Wallengren, CEfv. Ak. Forh. xxxii. 1, p. 93, 
Transvaal. 
Chmrocampa ploctzi^ H. B. Moschler, Yerh. z.-b. Wien, xxvi. p. 350, 
Surinam ; G. moeschleri., Columbia, and mexicana^ Mexico, N. Erschoff , 
Trud. Russk. x. pi. i. figs. 1 & 2, 
Sphinx saniptri^ H. Strecker, 1. c. p. 118, pi. xiii., fig. 18, Canada and 
Pennsylvania. 
Mimas terranea, A. G. Butler, 1. c. p. 310, pi. xxii. fig. 3, Malacca. 
