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Page 518, No. “ 2, Hemaris fumosa. Macroglossa fumosa, Strecker, Lep. Kliop. et Het., p. 93, 1871. Albany. Allied to 
H. diffinis] Grote believes it to be H. tenuis, in which the scales on the pellucid area of the wings are still adherent.” 
Grote is right in his belief. 
Page 519, No. 6, “ Sesia thetis, Grote and Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. I, p. 3, pi. 6, fig. 36, (Jan., 1868).” 
Should be p. 325, pi. 6, etc., not p. “ 3.” 
Page 521, No. “16, Hemaris axillaris. Sesia axillaris, Grote and Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., ii, p. 180, (1868). 
Hemaris axillaris, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., p. 6, pi. I, fig. 9, (1873). 
Sesia grotei, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4. Vol. XIV, p. 365, (1874). Texas, ( Belfrage ).” 
No. “17, Hemaris marginalis. Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., p. 6, pi. 1, fig. 10, (1873). Michigan. ( Strecker .)” 
These two are unquestionably the same species; the type of Marginalis lias the dentations on inner edge of margin of primaries 
not as deeply cut as in the type of Axillaris, but in a number of examples all the gradations between the two extremes can be found and 
in one example which 1 possess the teeth are prolonged inwardly even more than in Grote’s figure in Buff. Bull. 
P. 522 No. “ 20 Hemaris buffaloensis. Hcemorrhagia buffaloensis, Grote and Robinson, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 
Vol. vi'i, p. 437, pi. 16, figs. 18, 19, (1867). Buffalo. Very closely allied to, if not identical with H. ruficaudis of Walker (? Kirby) ; 
the body, however, seems greener in colouring, and the cell of primaries less open.” 
This is, as the latter part of the above quotation would lead us to infer, indentical with Ruficaudis of which Sesia Uniformis, G.-R., 
is also a synonym. 
On the same principle that certain individuals of this Ruficaudis were erected into the species Buffaloensis, all those found in 
Reading could be designated as Readingensis, those from Ivutztown as Kutztownensis, those from Folly-hill as Folly-hillensis, and so on. 
The synonymy of this species is: 
Macroglossa Ruficaudis, Kirby, ( Sesia R.), Faun. Bor. Am. IV, 303, (1837). Walker, C. B. M. VIII, 82, (1856). Morris, Cat. 
Lep. N. Am., 17, (1860), Syn. Lep., 149, (1862). Couper, Can. Ent. IV, 205, (1872). 
Hcemorrhagia Ruficaudis, Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. V, 149 & 175, (1865). 
Hemaris Ruficaudis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. IX, 521, (1877 ). 
Hcemorrhagia Buffaloensis, Grote & Robinson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. VIII, 437, t. 16, figs. 18, 19, (1867), List Lep. N. Am., 3, 
(1868). Grote, Buff Bull. I. 18, (1873), II, 224, (1875). 
Hemaris Buffaloensis, Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. IX, 522, (1877). 
Sesia Uniformis, Grote <£• Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. II, 181, (1888). Lintner , 23d Rep. N. Y. State Cab. Nat PLst., 172,(1872). 
Hcemorrhagia Uniformis, Grote & Robinson, List Lep. N. Am., 3, (1868). Grote, Buff. Bull. I, 18, (1873), II, 224, (1875). 
I would further refer the student to page 109 of this work where I have dwelt at some length on this species. 
No. “23 Hemaris fuscicaudis. Sesia fusiciudis Walker, Lep. Het. viii, p. 83, No. 6 (1856). Hcemorrhagia fusicaudis, Grote & 
Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v, p. 174 (1865). 
Georgia (Abbot). Type, B. M.” 
This is the southern form of Thysbe, from which it differs in nothing except its greater size; the absence of the greenish colour 
on the sides of the two last segments of abdomen is not specific as I have taken as many of Thysbe in Pennsylvania destitute of this 
greenish colour on abdomen as I have with it, and one example in my cabinet has all the segments of the abdomen dark red and only 
the thorax green ; otherwise it is the same as the ordinary Thysbe. 
On p. 519 No. “3 Hemaris palpalis Grote” from British Columbia. 
No. 7 “Hemaris metathetis” Butler from Texas. 
On p. 635 '‘Hemaris rubens, H. Edwds.” from Oregon and “ II. cynoglossum H. Edwds.”from California and Vancouver’s Island. 
Are all unknown to me save through the author’s descriptions. 
Page 529, No. “41, Macroglossa erato, Bdl., Lep. Cal. in Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige., xii, p. 65, no. 67 (1868).” 
Page 536, “Euproserpinus phaeton, Grote and Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. v, page 178, (1865). California ( Weidemeyer ) .” 
Further on page 636, “Euproserpinus phaeton of Grote is said to be identical with Macroglossa erato of Boisduval ; see IT. Edwards 
in Proc. Cal. Acad. Sc. 1875, p. 8.” 
On page 113 (foot note) and page 124, I have explained fully in regard to the confusion of names in this species which is fig. 1 
on plate XIV. 
Page 569, Deilephila Galii and D. Chamienerii are cited as separate species, but the author adds: “according to Strecker (Can. 
Ent. IV, p. 206), 1). chamcenerii is = I). galii,” and I must here repeat that they undoubtedly are but one species, the only difference 
between them being in the name. 
Page 569 No. “8 Deilephila intermedia, Ivirby, Fauna Amer.-Bor. vol. iv. p. 302 (1837). “Canada” (Kirby).” 
This also I believe to be nothing more than Gain ( Chamcenerii , Harr.). 
Page 574 No. “2, Philampdus linnei Grote & Robinson Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. v, pp. 157, 179, 182, pi. 3, fig. 3, (1865). 
Sphinx vitis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. vol. iii, pi. 268, fig. E (1782). 
Dupo vitis, Hubner, \ r erz, bek. Schinett. p. 137, no. 1466 ( 1 816). 
Philampdus vitis, Walker, Lep. Het. viii, p. 176, no. 4 (1856). 
Philampdus fasciatus, Grote, notes Cub. Sph., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. v, pp. 59, 84, (1865). 
Mexico (Hartweg ) ; Haiti (Cuming & Tweed i e) ; ? (Stevens).” 
I have an example of this species taken by Boll near San Antonia, 8. W. Texas; Mr. J. Doll also took it in Florida. 
Some examples which I received from Surinam and the upper Amazons are much larger than the West Indian ones or those 
from Florida and Texas, expanding 4} to 4| inches; these S. Am. examples are also of a general darker hue, the dorsal stripe of abdo- 
men being not particularly noticeable; the greenish of upper side of secondaries more inclined to grey, the rose-coloured inner margin 
darker, the pale lines and bands of primaries clouded or shaded with brown, and the veins are accompanied with white to the extreme 
edge of the exterior margin, whilst in the Cuban and U. S. examples they extend only to the grey border of exterior margin. They 
remind one forcibly of Menetries’ figure of P. Strenua (Cat. Mus. Pelrop. Lep. II, f. 12, 1857) and it is only by actual comparison that 
the mind can be disabused of the idea that they are identical. 
