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SMERINTHUS. 
Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. V, p. 160, 185, (1865); List Lep. X. Am. I, p. iv, (1868.) 
Packard, Guide, Ins., p. 275, (1869.) Lintner, 24th Report, X. Y. State, Mus. Xat. 
Hist., p. 119, (1870.) Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Xat. Sc., Vol. I, p. 23, (1873.) 
Smerinthus Geminata, Harris, Cat. Ins. Mass, in Rep. Geo. Bot. & Zool. of Mass., (1835); Sill. 
Am. Jnl. Sc., Vol. 36, p. 291, (1839.) 
Var. Jamaicensis, Drury, (Sphinx Ocellatus Jamaicensis, ) 111. Ex. Ent., Vol. II, p. 43, t. 25, 
(1773.) Smerinthus J., Westwood, Drury 111. Ex. Ent., Vol. II, p. 47, t. 25, (1837) ; 
Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. V, p. 160, (1865); Lintner, 24th 
Report, X. Y. State, Mus. Xat. Hist., p. 123, (1870.) 
Opthalmicus, Boisduval, Annales, Soc. Ent. de France, t. Ill, 3me ser. xxxii, (1855.) Clemens, Jnl. 
Acad. Xat. Sc., Phila., p. 184, (1859.) Morris, Syn., p. 211, n. 5, (1862.) Grote 
& Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. V, p. 160, (1865); List Lep. X. Am., 
I, p. iv, (1868.) Lintner, 24th Report, X. Y. State, Mus. Xat. Hist., p. 125, (1870.) 
Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Xat. Sc., I, p. 23, (1873.) 
Cerisyi, Kirby, Fauna Boreali Americana, Vol. IV, p. 302, t. 4, f. 4, (1837.) Lintner, 24th Report, X. Y. 
State, Mus. Xat. Hist., p. 124, (1870.) 
Smerinthus Cerisii, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. V, p. 40, (1865) ; Bull. Buff. Soc. Xat 
Sc., I, p. 23, (1873.) Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. V, p. 160, 
(1865); List Lep. X. Am., I, p. iv, (1868.) 
Modesta, Harris, Sill. Am. Jnl. Sc. & Art, Vol. 36, p. 292, (1839); Agassiz’ Lake Superior, p. 388, t. 7, 
(1850.) Clemens , Jnl. Acad. Xat. Sc., Phila., p. 183, (1859.) Morris, Syn., p. 210, 
n. 3, (1862.) 
Smerinthus Modestus, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Lep. 8, p. 248, (1856.) Grote & Robinson, Proc. 
Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. V, p. 161, 185, (1865); List Lep. X. Am. I, p. iv, (1868.) 
Smerinthus Princeps, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Lep. 8, p. 255, (1856.) 
Laothoe Modesta, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Xat. Sc. I, p. 24, (1873.) 
In 1816 Hubner in his Verzeichnisz Bekannter Schmetterlingc divided and snb-divided the Srnerinthi into several groups and 
genera. His first sub-family, Dentati, comprised the genera Colaces and Polyptyclius, and the second, Angulati, contained Paonias and 
Maimantes; Polyptyclius was for the reception of the plain grey species such as Dentatus Cr. and Juglandis Abb. & S., whilst Paonias 
was for the species having the inferiors ornamented with eye-like spots, of which Ocellata L., and Excaecata Abb. & S. were types. 
But in this Hubner was no more felicitious than in the numberless other instances in which he pursued the same course ; in fact so few 
admired the system that it fell into almost entire disuse, until within the present year, when, Mr. Grote very injudiciously attempted 
to revive it, with additions of his own, in his Catalogue of the Sph. of N. Am., published in the Bulletin of the Buffalo Society, in which 
the unfortunate Srnerinthi are treated in this wise on p. 2.3, 24. 
“Tribe, Angulati liubner. 
PAONIAS, Hubner (1816.) 
Type: Sphinx Excaecalus, Abbot & Smith. 
Excaec a.tus, Hubner. 
Sphinx Excaecatus, Abbot & Smith. 
Canada; Massachusetts; New York ; Southern States. 
Payoninus, Geyer. 
Pennsylvania (Auth, Geyer.) 4a spec, peace ? 
Myops, Hubner. 
Sphinx Myops , Abbot & Smith. 
Smerinthus Rosacaerum, Boisduval. 
New York ; Pennsylvania ; Southern States. 
CALASYMBOLUS, Grote (1873.) 
Type, Sphinx Astylus, Drury. 
A ST vi, rs. 
Sphinx Astylus, Drury. 
Sphinx Io, Boisduval. 
Smerinthus Integerrima, Harris. 
Massachusetts ; New York ; Pennsylvania, 
SMERINTHUS, Latreille (1809.) 
Type: Sphinx Ocellatus, Linnaeus. 
Ophthalmicus, Boisduval. 
California. 
Gkm in’Atus, Say. 
Canada; Massachusetts; New York; Pennsylvania. 
Cerisii, Kirby. 
Hudson’s Bay Territory (Kennicott.) 
Tribe : Dentatae {Hubner.) 
LAOTHOE, Fabricius restr. (1807.) 
Type : Sphinx Populi, Linnaeus. 
Modesta. 
Smerinthus Modesta, Harris. 
Smerinthus Princeps, Walker. 
Lake Superior ; Canada; Massachusetts; New York. 
CRESSONIA, Grote Robinson (1865.) 
Type: Sphinx Juglandis, Abbot A Smith. 
Juglandis, Grote & Robinson. 
Sphinx Juglandis, Abbot & Smith. 
Canada; Massachusetts; New York; Southern States.” 
From the above, which I have quoted in full, it will be seen that the compiler has not been more fortunate in this arrangement than 
was the great originator of it, in whose footsteps he endeavors to tread. The genus Calasymbolus, erected for Astylus, he says : 
“differs from Paonias in the shape of the secondaries, and from Smerinthus in antennal structure,” in what that difference of antennal 
structure consists the student is not informed; I, for my part would immensely like to know, for after a patient examination of all the 
species of this country, as well as of various Exotics, I am forced to the conclusion that any real material difference in the structure 
exists not in the antennae of the Srnerinthi but in the fervid imagination of the founder of the Calasymbolus and Cressonia Dynasties. 
