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ON SOME N. AMERICAN SPHINGIM: IN A. G. BUTLER’S REVISION. 
No. “8 Sphinx oereodciphne, IT. Edwards, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. v. p. 109 (1874). California.” 
The above is a synonym of Chersis, Hub. The Californian and Oregon examples are not as large as those from the Atlantic 
States. 
Page 619, “12 Sphinx ? lanceolata. Sphinx lanceolate, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. tab. lxxviii. fig. 3 (Nov., 1874). 
Guatemala and Mexico. 
Seems allied to S. chersis, but may possibly belong to the genus Pseudosphinx', without seeing the insect it is impossible to 
decide.” 
I have an example in my collection from Panama which agrees exactly with Felder’s splendid figure; it is close to S. Chersis. 
On page 621 No. “3 Lintneria eremitoides. Sphinx eremiloides, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. p. 93 (1874).” 
This is a synonym of S'. Lugens. Mr. Butler says, “Mi-. Grote thinks it probable that S. eremiloides is = S. Lugens of Walker; 
but (judging from Mr. Grote’s previous papers on the Sphingidae) I am doubtful whether he knows the S. lugens of Walker. 1 1 is certain 
that Clemens did not ; for he separated it by a wide interval from his S. leucophceata.” 
Lugens was unknown to American entomologists until after 1 redescribed it on p. 93 under the name of Eremitoides ; it was 
Grote’s ignorance of the species that led me into the error, as in the collection of Lepidoptera made by Grote and the late Coleman 
Robinson was an example of Sphinx Justicice, Bdl., erroneously labeled N. Lugens, Wlk., and inasmuch as Grote and his collaborator made 
their identifications of the Walkeriun species by comparison with the types in the British Museum, during a visit to England, I had not 
the remotest idea that they would blunder on so large and conspicuous an insect as Lugens. 
Mr. Butler makes a new genus which he calls Lintneria for the reception of Sphinx Eremitus, Hb. and Sph. Perelegans, Hy. Edwds., 
though the latter lie prefixes with a ?. Perelegans is nearer in general appearance to Chersis Hub., and also to Drupiferarum, Ab.-S., 
than to any others, as 1 have allown on page 136. 
“ Ceratomia hageni, Grote,” is closely allied to Daremma Undulosa, Wlk., and not at all to Ceratomia Amyntor, Hub., from which it 
differs remarkably in both the larva and winged state, as will be seen by referring to page 127 of this work where I have treated on this 
species at length. 
In appendix I, p. 629: 
“ Canadensis, Boisd.* p. 93, No. 29, = ?, Sphinx leucophceata.” 
The species figured on plate XIII and described on page 115 under the name of Sph. Plota may be the same as S. Canadensis ; if 
such should prove to be the case the name given by me must fall. Dr. Boisduval’s having priority by several years. 
Sphinx strobi, Boisd. figured pi. 5 fig. 3. 
cupressi, Boisd. p. 102, n. 41, pi. 2, figs. 3-5.” 
Neither of these are in any American collection as far as I am aware of, nor are they known here save through the figures of 
Boisduval. They appear to me to belong to the Pinastri group. The habitat of S. Cupressi is given as Georgia. 
“Sphinx catalpce, Boisd. p. 103, no. 42, pi. 2, figs. 1, 2.” 
Prof. C. V. Riley has found the larva of this species on Catalpas, but so far has not been successful in securing the imago. Boisduval 
states, on the authority of Abbot, that the larva was found on Catalpa Cordifolia in Georgia. 
He also says his description was drawn up from a good figure by Abbot and the notes of Leconte ; he had failed to receive the 
species owing to the death of Abbot. 
The insect 1 believe is unrepresented in American collections; the figure of the imagine on Boisduval’s plate looks a good deal 
like something between S. Undulosa and S. Hageni. 
Page 634, “ Macrog'ossa cethra, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Piet, i, p. 107, (1875) ; pi. xiii, fig. 2, (1876). 
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In my description of this species on page 107 I have stated that the type was from Montreal, Canada, which it seems Mr. Butler 
overlooked. I have since received other examples from the same place. 
Page 635, “FIemaris RUFICAIidis, (synonym). Macroglossa ruficaudis, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. i, pi. xiii, fig. 1, (1876).” 
“ Synonym ” of what? 
Page 636, “ Deidamia inscripta. Plerogon inscriptum, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. pi. xiii, fig. 8, (1876).” 
This belongs in the same genus with the Russian Gorgoniades, Hub., and wherever the one is placed the other likewise 
belongs. 
Page 637, “Genus Elibia, Walker. Eeibia versicolor. Darapsa versicolor, Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het. i, pi. xiii, fig. 9, 
(1876). It is evident from Strecker’s figure, that this species has been erroneously referred to the allied genus Otus.” 
What in all the earth could cause Butler to place this species in the genus Elibia is beyond all comprehension. In Elibia are 
but two species, both from India, Dolichvs, West., and Dolichoides, FeJd.; with the first only am I acquainted in nature and the only 
point in common between it and Versicolor is the pale dorsal line, which decoration is also shared in by ground squirrels ( Tamias ) and 
garter snakes, and the most rabid genus-fabricator would scarce on that account place these animals in one genus. 
Mr. J. Meyer of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was the first person that bred Versicolor from the larva, informed me that the latter are, 
with the exception of being a little larger, almost precisely like those of D. Myion, Cram. And there cannot be the least doubt but 
that Versicolor belongs to the same genus with Choerilus and Myron. 
Darapsa was used to replace Otus on account of the latter being preoccupied in ornithology. 
Page 638. The author says of Chcerocnmpa Procne (fig. 10, plate XIII of this work) from California : “ It is much more probable 
that this is an Asiatic species allied to C. lucasii.” 
The example from which my figure was drawn agrees in all particulars exactly with Clemen’s description in Jnl. Acad. Nat. Sc. 
Phil., 1859. I obtained it along with the collection of Rev. Dr. J. G. Morris some twenty years since; it had a small slip on the pin 
with the locality “ S. California” written thereon, and I candidly confess that 1 still think this locality the correct one; there is no 
*Lep. Het. 1, Sph,, Sesiides, Castnides., Suites a Buffon. 
