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CATALOGUE OF 
Sphinx? Tisi phone. 
Ala antica cinerea, vim pallida; postica supra nigra, basi 
Hindostan. 
Sphinx? pagana. 
Ala cinereo nebulosa ; postica supra disco ferrugineo. 
Sphinx pagana Fair. Sp. Ins. ii. 146, 29 ; Manl. Ins. ii. 95, 32 
G-mel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2385, 92. 
Sphinx?? Ocvpete. 
Ala nebulosa , postica margine postico basali albo. 
Sphinx Ocypete, Linn. Mus. Lud . Ulr. 344. Gmel. ed. Svst Nat 
i. 5, 2373, 4. J 
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Genus ABCTONOTUS. 
Aictonotus, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr . 2 me Ser. x. 
Mas Corpus crassum, pilosissimum. Proboscis brevissima 
aut obsoleta. Palpi validi, brevissimi, pilosissimi. Antenna ro- 
ousta, serrata, valde pubescentes, tborace multo longiores Abdo- 
men longi-obconicum, tborace vix longius. Pedes validi, pilosi • 
tibia postica calcaribus quatuor parvis. Ala mediocriter lata, non 
longa, vix denticulata, sat lata ciliata; antica apud costam recta 
vix acuminata, margine exteriore sat obliquo vix convexo ; postica 
apice rotundata. r 
Male . Body thick, very pilose. Proboscis very short, obsolete. 
Palpi stout, very short and pilose. Autenna thick, serrate, very pu- 
bescent much longer than the thorax. Abdomen elongate-obconi- 
ca!, hardiy longer than the thorax. Legs stout, pilose ; hind tibia 
with four rather short spurs. Wings moderately broad, not long 
hardly denticulated, rather deeply ciliated. Fore wings straight in 
front, slightly acuminated, rather oblique and slightly convex along 
the exterior border ; second inferior vein nearer to the third than to 
the first; third rather further from the fourth than from the first 
Hind wings much rounded at the tips. 
This genus appears to connect Smerinthus with the Bombycida. 
