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whole length by a broad nearly even band or margin of reddish brown, the same colour as on the under side of the usual female 
form. 
Although there was some slight disarrangement in the general sexual make-up of this individual still it had sense enough to 
assert its manhood, though by so doing it sacrificed both liberty and life ; it flew into an open window attracted by a captive virgin female 
which had that day emerged from the chrysalis. 
For both the above remarkable insects, as well as numberless other kindnesses extending through long years, am 1 indebted to 
my old friend Herman Sachs who bred the first and captured the second at his residence in Hoboken, New Jersey, some years ago; 
and as I now gaze at them many and many a pleasant recollection arises of the days of “auld Jang syne.” 
From the state of Maine I received a male example in which the median or second submarginal line is crimson like the outer 
one instead of black as in all other examples I have ever seen. 
Another male, from Maryland, has the ocellus of secondaries entirely black without any shining blue, or while discal mark. 
Two females have the lower edge of the ocellus of secondaries resting on the black transverse line. 
One female has upper surface of primaries purplish grey, transverse lines and discal marks white. Ocellus of secondaries of 
immense size filling nearly the whole space interior to the black line ; under surface of this example is greyish yellow. It is from Ohio. 
A female in Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, is of small size and has the ocellus of secondaries suffused and irregularly spread 
over a great portion of the wing. 
In collection of Mr. J. Meyer of Brooklyn is a female of very large size in which the upper side primaries are ornamented with 
rays of darker colour which start from the base and diverge outwards wider and wider until their points reach nearly to the exterior 
margin. 
In Mr. Neumcegen’s coll., also in my own, are female examples with the upper side of primaries pale grey or ashen; one of 
these was taken near Morristown, Is. Jersey, the other I bred from larva found here. 
HYPERCHIRIA LILITH. Nov. Sr. 
(PLATE XV, FIG. 17 $.) 
Female. Expands 2f inches. 
Head, thorax and legs dark Indian red ; abdomen same colour with the exception that the segments 
above are edged with a somewhat yellowish hue. 
Upper surface ; primaries dark reddish broivn more inclined to red at the base, and somewhat paler and 
tinged with grey at outer margin ; discal mark scarcely discernible ; a darker inconspicuous transverse median 
line or rather shade. Secondaries brownish not as dark as the primaries, broadly bordered at abdominal margin 
with dull crimson ; a large central ocellus formed by a distinct black ring enclosing shining blue or steel 
colour and with a small white discal mark, the black and blue do not merge into each other as in H. Varia 
but the black ring is not wide and is clear and distinct on its inner edge as on the outer ; outside the ocellus is 
a broad black line, between this latter and the exterior margin is another broader line of reddish brown ; the 
exterior margin is also bordered with the same colour. 
Under surface dark Indian red shaded towards exterior margins with brownish; transverse lines as in 
H. Varia-, on primaries a very large black oval discal spot with small white round spot in centre, on seconda- 
ries a small white discal spot. 
Hab. Georgia. 
I have only had the opportunity of examining the females, of which there were eight or nine, all bred at one time; the male, 
of which there were only a few examples, was described to me as being much like the female, but the primaries darker or more grey- 
ish and the secondaries paler. Of the eight or nine females bred 1 have examined six, and all are remarkably alike, presenting 
scarcely any difference from each other in size, shape or colour. The wings are broader and shorter than in H. Varia, which is the 
nearest allied species. My friend did not take any particular note of the Jarva more than that they were of the Varia type and that he 
found them feeding on some small weed which soon gave out, he then fed them on wild cherry which they ate readily until they were 
ready to change into the chrysalis state. This could scarce be a local form of H. Varia as the latter species I received from the same 
locality and bred at same time in large numbers of both sexes which were in all respects the same as those found in Penna., N. York 
and other more northern localities. I have every hope that I will in a future plate be able to depict the male of this beautiful insect as 
my informant is confident that he has in chrysalis state another brood of it. 
I have named this species after a lady of considerable celebrity in the olden time long ago, to wit: No less a personage than 
Adam’s first wife Lilith, the mother of the giants, who was eventually turned into a demon, as has been not unfrequently the case 
with members of her sex in subsequent times, not long ago. 
ON THE NORTH AMERICAN SPHINGIDJE IN MR. A. G. BUTLER’S REVISION OF THAT 
FAMILY PUBLISHED IN TRANS. ZOOL. SOU, LOND., VOL. IX., PART 10, (1877). 
Among the various works of interest to the Entomologist that have of late years appeared, two come in for considerable atten- 
tion : the “ Sphingides, Sesiides, Castnides,” by Dr. Boisduval (1874), and the “(Revision of the Sphingidse,” by Mr. Butler (1877); 
as the latter is later and in a measure a revision of the former, I will more particularly direct my attention and remarks to its contents, 
contenting myself for the present by expressing my delight at the wonderful correctness of the drawing and beauty of colouring of the 
figures in the work of Dr. Boisduval. 
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Page 517, No. “2 Lepisesia victoria, Grote Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, p. 147, (1874). British Columbia.” 
Was described from a faded example of Pterogon Clarkice, Bdl. In appendix p. 634 Butler makes the correction in a measure, 
tnus: “Said to be identical with Pterogon darkice of Boisduval ; see Bull. Buff. Soc., ii, p. 225.” 
On p. Ill of this work I have slightly alluded to the above. 
