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Heterocera. 
SPHIN GTD JE. 
T. W. Harris. — Descriptive Catalogue of the North American insects 
belonging to the Linnsean genus Sphinx, in the cabinet of Thaddeus 
William Harris, M. D., librarian of Harvard University. <Amer. 
Journ. Sc. and Arts, Yol. XXXYI, 1839, pp. 282-320. 
Includes not only the Sphingidse as at present limited, hut also the Zygseni- 
dse of Grote’s new list. 
B. Clemens. — Synopsis of the North American Sphingides. < Journ. 
Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil., Yol. IY, Pt. 2, 1859, pp. 97-190. 
A monograph of the family as at present limited. 
J. A. Boisduval. — Sphiugides, Sesiides, Castniides. Paris, Boret 1874. 
Forms part of the Suites a Buffon, and is Vol. I of the Species g6n6ral des 
L6pidopteres h6t6roceres. 
A. G. Butler.— Revision of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the 
family Sphingidse. <Trans. Zool. Soc. London, Yol. IX, 1877, pp. 
511-644, PI. XC-XCIY. 
A descriptive catalogue. 
John B. Smith. — An introduction to a classification of the North 
American Lepidoptera. Sphingidse. <Entom. Amer., Yol. 1, 1885, 
pp. 81-87. 
Contains a synopsis of the genera, with brief remarks on each. 
C. H. Fernald. — The Sphingidse of New England. Orono, Me., 1886. 
Gives the life-history, so far as known, of all species recorded from New Eng- 
land. 
John B. Smith. — A monograph of the Sphingidse of North America, 
north of Mexico. <Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Yol. XY, 1888, Part II, 
12 plates. 
[This is not published but is included here because now in the printer’s 
hands. — C. V. R.] 
SESILDiE. 
See papers by Harris and Boisduval above cited, who treat the Sesiidse as a 
part of the Sphingidse, both works being antiquated so far as they relate to 
the Sesiidse. 
John B. Smith. — An introduction to a classification of the North 
American Lepidoptera. <Entom. Amer., Yol. IX., 1888, pp. 9-13. 
THYRIDJE. 
This family has also been treated by Harris and Boisduval as a part of the 
Sphingidse. 
ZYGJENIDiE. 
A. S. Packard, Jr. — Notes on the family Zygaenidm. <Proc. Essex 
Institute, Yol. IY, 1864, pp. 7-47, PI. I, II. 
Description of a number of new genera and species, with notes on others. 
