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PROCEEDINGS

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY,

PHILA-DELPHIj^.

vol. V.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED BT THE &0C1ETT.

1805.

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LIST OF PAPEB

Brendel, Emil, M. D.

Od some new species of Faelaphidte,

New species and corrections in the family PBelapbidse,

Cle.mens, Bracken ridge, M. D.

North American Micro-Lepidoptera,

Ckesson, E. T.

Monograph of the Philanthidfe of North America, .

Edwards, W. H.

Description of a new epeciee of Limenitis,

Grote, Auo. R, ,

Notes on Cuban Sphiii$;idse, .....
Notea on the BombycidsB of Cnba, ....

GBOTE k ROBINBON.

A Synonymical Catalogue of North American Sphingidse,

with Notea and DescriptiooB, 149

Reakirt, Tayos.

DeRcriptions of some new Bpecies of Danain», . . . 217
DescriptionB of some new species of Eresia, . . . 224

SCUUDER, SaHUFL H.

Revision of the hitherto known species of Chlonobas in
North America, ■ 1

Walsh, Benjamin D., M. A.

On Phytophagic Varieties and Phylophagic Species, with

remarks on the Unity of Coloration in Insects, . , 194

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PEOCEEDINGS

OP TH£

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

OF PHILADELPHIA.

BY SAMIEL H. SCUDDEtt.
iCommanicaUd June 12th, 1865.)

Having long been desirous of comparing the species of Chionoiin
described by Say under the name of /Ti/j^'ii-c/Ka seniiWrK, of which I
hare seen a large number of specimens, with the subarctic speciea of
the same genus indicated or described by authors as living in the colder
regions of this continent, no specimens of which have hitherto found
their «ay into the museums of this country, it was with great satisfac-
tion that I was given the opportunity of examining an interesting col-
lection of this genus made by my friend aud fellow student Dr. A. ^.
Packard. Jr.. on the coast nf Labrador, near the northern extremity
of the Straits of Belle Ule, and us far north m the mission station of
Hopedale ; it comprised nil but one of the species hitherto described <ir
figured, or in any way indicated aa coming from that region — that ex-
ception was made good to me through the favor of Mr. Vi'. II. Edwards,
to whom I have been so frequently indebted for the gift atid loan of
specimens desired by me in my studies, and for many useful notes upon
them; from him also I have received i<peciuiens from Labrador ticketed
by MoMchler, the latest reviser of the Kui-opean species, which have
been of great service to me, and also a speciuien of the only species yet
described or figured from the western portion of our continent. With-
out doubt other species will he added so soon as that region is explored,
which will not be long hence, we may be sure. Already another spe-
cies is indicated from that region, obtained by Jlr. Lorquin. In the
meantime it has seemed to me a useful undertaking to attempt to scru-
tinize the relations of the species already known on this continent, aud
to understand what this and that author have meant by Oeno, Aho,

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Ta.ygf.te, Bootei, &a., thereby aceompliahing for Nortt America what
Moscliler has done for Europe; and although I have not beeD able to
agree with that author in all his determinatioDS, I hope I shall not he
found to have created oonfusion thereby. I have not attempted to give
any opinion upon purely European species, since, from the want of a
sufficient number of specimens from that continent, each an andertaking
would be misplaced, but where the Labrador species was one said to be
identical with the European, I have founded my judgment wholly on
the Labrador specimens and figures of Labr.idor individuals, and have
giveh, from all works at my command, sjnonymical lists, it will be seen,
only of descriptions and figures of, or references to, specimens from La-
brador, strictly confining myself to the American species. I do not
doubt, however, that some of them are found upon both sides of the
Atlantic, and have specimeas of several under examination from Europe
and America which do not seem to me distinct. For these also I am
indebted to the favor of Mr. Edwards. But this field of inquiry being
extraneous to my purpose, I have not entered upon it. I have given
outline figures to illustrate the direction of both the borders of the
middle band on the under surface of the secondaries, usiug, when
sketching them, a specimen of each species which seemed to me to ex-
hibit the normal condition.

A description of the egg, larva and chrysalis of one species, (6%,
semidea) with figures of the latter two, will be found in my " Remarks
on some characteristics of the iosect-fauna of the White Mountains,
New Hampshire," published in the Boston Journal of Natural History,
Vol. VII, pp. 612—631.

One source of confusion and difficulty of understanding the meaning
of authors has been, it seems to me, in the indifFerent mauner with
which they have frequently used specific names which in their view
were synonymous, leading others to believe that because, for instance,
they employed in one place the specific name Bootes and in another
Taygete, therefore they believed that two species existed, when it was
only an irregular use of names which had been applied by different
authors to one and the same species. Another thing is sUll more re-
markable to me, however: Mikchler, in his valuable article on the
Lepidopteran Fauna of Labrador, (Wiener Ent Monatschr. IV) enu-
merates on p. 342 the species of Ohiouoha» found there B&JiUta Hiibn.,
Taygeie Hilbu., Oeno Bd. and Bootes Bd., remarking, in connection
therewith, that he discusses their relation so fully in his paper on the
genus Chionobae in Europe, that it is only necessary to give an enu-
meratioa of them ; and in addition thereto, criticizing Mr. Christophs'

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view, he Bays in a Dote on p. B32, that Bootes, Taygetc and Oeno ex-
hibit Tery good differeDCee, as he will show in that game paper. Now
when this paper is published, two and a half years afterward, he places
Bootes Bd. as a synonym of Tat/ffete Hiibn, without expressing any
change of view, or referring in any way to his previous statement and
enumeration as erroneous, which he certainly should have done after 80
direct a reference to the latter paper for explanations and proof of the
accuracy of views already expressed; no such reference being made, it
is a little surprising to find that instead of being confirmed they are
controverted.

1. Chioaotiafl }ntta.

CSiionobae Jutta, Mdechler, Wiener entom. Uonatschrift, IV. 34S ; VII. SOI.
Oiianobas Balder Boisduvsl, Iconee hist, dea Lepidopt. 1. 189, PI. 30, figB. 1—3.
" Hist. geoer.etlooneB Lepidopt. del'Am. Sept 216.

Coubleday, Weetwood and Hewiteon, Gen. Diurnal Lapidopt.

II. 382.
Herrich-Schnffer, Bjit. Bearb. d'Schmett. von Enrapa, II.

Tagfalter, 08.
Morris, S^nop. Lepidopt. N. Am. 71.
SchiOdte, in Sink, Naturhiat Bidrag til en Beeliriv af GrOn-

Eumenis Balderi Hitbner, Zutrftge, 43, figB. 981— SB2.

Expanse of wings S 2.06—2.16 in.; 9 2.16—2.20 in.

Head, thorax and abdomen black, with brownish hairs. Antenna
of the ground color of upper side of wings, annulated with grayish-
white; elub reddish-brown, tip sometimes darker. Palpi with short
grayish-white haiis throughout, long black ones beneath. Femora
dark brown; tibife brownish-yellow, flecked with gray; upper side of
tarsi sometimes darker.

Wings above dark brown, with dark spots along the border in a yel-
lowish field; beneath mostly marbled with grayish, dark browu and
black. Fringe pure white, interrupted narrowly with black at the ner-
vule-tips.

Above. PrimarieM dark brown, the % clightly darker. Parallel to
the outer border and nearer to it than to the extremity of the cell is a
broad hand, dull yellow in the J > ^ot^ or less ochraceous in the % ,
extending from the costal to the internal nervnre, generally interrupted
only by the nervures in the 9 i broken up into roundish or ovoid spote,
oAen widely separated in the % , which have rather large, black, round
or ovoid spots in cells 2 and 5 (counting from the internal nervnre),
and one of the same si^e or smaller, or even reduced to a point, in cell
3, absent in the % , the lowermost of these spots slightly nearer the

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border than the others. % with two btaok apots of hair-lilce scales, ooe
next the base below the median nervure reatiag upon and esteading to
its first branch ; the aecond, separated by this branch from the first, rest-s
upon the mediaD both above and below, divided by it and eitending to the
termination of the cell, having a small patch between the aecond and
third median nervules. Costal border, especially near base, indistinctly
mottled with gray and black. Secondarie* of the same general color
as the primaries, with a similar band before the border, continuous or
nearly so in both sexes, in which, in every interspace, is a more or Ishs
distinct pale yellow dot, except in that between the first and second
mediiin nervules, where there ia a small eye-like spot, indistinctly white-
pupilled. One of the specimens exhibits also a SLmilar but indistinct,
spot between the second and third median nervules. The separation
of the band from the border is less distinct in the 7 than in the £ .

Beneath. Primaries slightly paler than the upper surface ; the whole
costal edge mottled white and black; the apes of the wing anil the upper
half of the outer border is either uniform gray from the equal com-
miugUug of white and dark brown scales, or by the clustering of scales
of the same color into spots is pretty uniformly marbled with white and
dark brown or black. The outerhalf of the wing with a yellowish ( 5 )
or slight ocbraceous ( S ) tinge, with seldom any mark of the light band
of the upper side except as a halo, distinct and large in 9 , feint and
narrow in % , around the spots of the second and fifth cells, which re-
appear on this surface, the upper always, the lower generally, distinotly
white-pupilled. Seeondari'-t marbled with narrow transverse, generally
wavy bars of clustered grayish-white, and brown or blackish-brown
scales, in some individuals one, in others the other predominating, the
lighter colors being fainter or nearly absent on the middle
hand,and generally most conspicuous next itsouter limit; the
middle band not very prominently darker than the ground
M^Vi color but broad; Its outer border generally only narrowly
'■ ; i '. Wedged with blackish, is deeply crenated except toward the
"-^ -^ inner border, where the curves are slight and broad or want-
ing; it extends from the costal border to exactly the extremity of the cell in
three very prominent arches, the first two each occupying an interspace.
the third broad and arching over two interspaces; from the extremity
of the cell the border bends backwards towards the base, with a pvomi-
nent arch in the next interspace, but in the .remaining, by which it
reaches the inner border, only alight curves or none at all ; the inner
border is much less distinct, but has an angular depression between the
costal and subcostal nervures, and a very deep and rounded one in the

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lower half of the cell; the coBtal edge is mottled black and white, the
oat«r edge ia narrowl; lined with black, before which is geDerally a
narrow faint hand where the grayish acalea ptedominat* over the black.
The remainder of the wing is generally uniformly marbled, hot in one
specimen (f,') before me the narrow dark line bordering the inner half
of the outside of middle band continues on in a. straight tine to the outer
angle of the wing at the termination of the second subcostal nervule.
The eye of the upper appears again beneath, very prominently white-
pnpilled. so much so as sometimes to appear almost ultogeCher as a
white spot; the spots in the other interspaces are generally larger, more
prominent and paler ; nervures not flecked with white,

2 I ; Hopedale and Square Island Harbor, Labrador, Dr. A. 3.
Packard. Jr. iJ $ ; Quebec, W. H. Kdwards.

It will he seen from this description that my specimens have eyes on
the upper side of the aecoDdaricM only in cell '2, except in one which
has a very indistinct one in cell 3, but that they ull are delicately wbite-
pupitled; also that all the eyes of the under side of the secondaries of the
male as well as the female nre white-pupilled, that of cell 5 distinctly;
further, that the eye of cell 2 on the under side of the secondaries in
the % is very protuinently while-pup tiled ; these are variations noted
from Mbscher's description.

I am inclined to accept Moscher's union of Jutti with Ba&?CT-, having
examined also a pair of specimens of this species from Russia, labelled
■■ Bnl'li-r" by Menetries. kindly loaned me by Mr. Kdwards.

2. ChionobaB Chryzni.

Chianohan ^hry!^3 Doubledny, Waetwooil and Hewitaon, Gen. Diurnal Lopidopt.
II. 383, PI. 84, fig. I.
Edwanis, Proc. Gntom. Soc. Philad. II. 82.

Expanse of wings, f 'Z.'i inches.

9 - Head, thorax and abdomen black, with ochraceons hairs, mingled
with black ones on front of thorax. Antennae light brown is h-yellow,
faintly auuulated with white, the tip of club dnsky. Palpi very pale
yellow, with hairs of same color, of moderate length, as long above as be-
low, with B Tory few longer black ones mingled with them below, more
abundant and occurring both above and below at the tip. Lega grayish ;
femora, except tip, darker.

Wings above dull ochraceous-yellow, flecked with brown on the basal
half and along the costal and outer margin of primaries and the outer
iingle of secondaries; beneath paler, secondaries marbled with browa
and gray, with a dusky middle band.

Above. Primariet dull oohraceons-yellow, the base largely flecked

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to beyond the cell with dull reddish-browo, in which we see broad and
short pale bands oa both sides of the oerTure, ologing the cell, which
it«elf ia distinctly bnt narrowly bordered with dark brown, and similar
bands across the cell towards the base; the costal border flecked with
brown scales which extend as a band around the outer border to the
second median nervule; the costal edgemarbled, especially toward base.
with black and white, less distinct toward middle of wing. In the
broad pale ochraceoos-yetlow band which is thna formed across the oater
half of the wing, which is divided by a spur of the basal brown extend-
ing along the latX, bmnch of the median nervure, there are three black-
ish eye-like, slightly ovoid spots in the secoud, third and fifth celb, the
third much smaller than the others, the fifth indistinctly white- pup i lied.
Secondaries faintly, marbled with transverse bars, sometimes clustered
into spots, of dnll ochraceous-yeilow and dull reddish-brown, the darker
colors predominating over a large basal portion, still darker nest the
base, and the lighter occupying the outer portion, with the esoeption
of a band across the outer angle of dark brown scales clustering into
spots in the interspaces; between the first and second median nervules
a small round blackish spot, largely pupilled with grayish-white ; ihe
marbling seen is that of the diaphanous marking of the under surface.
Beneath. Primaries dirty gray iah- white, tinged with faint ochrace-
ous, especially in lower half; a brownish band along outer border cor-
responding to npper surface but extending further, faintly marbled with
grayish, especially at tip of wing; costal edge distinctly marbled with
grayish-wbite and black as far as this band, but interrupted by a darker
spot above the eye; a broad band across the middle of the wing, whose
outer border corresponds to the outer border of the basal brown of upper
surface, that is, runs parallel to the nervure closing the cell, projects
outwards as a narrow sharply pointed tooth along the last median
nervule and just reaches the outer band, after which it continues in
broad shallow waves parallel to the outer border; its inner border be-
low the cell is indistinct, merging into the piiler colors basewards; it
crosses the cell irregularly above the origin of the second median
nervule; the band is partially divided by a broad bar of grayish
crossing the cell at its extremity and by a pale spot just beyond the
cell ; the basal portion of the wing is sprinkled with clusters of brown-
ish spots in the cell which sometimes congregate into narrow bars cross-
ing it; the eyes of the upper surface are repeated and all distinctly
white-pupil led. Secondaries marbled with narrow transverse bars,
sometimes congregated into spots and bands of white, dark brown and
pale brown scales, the latter sometimes tinged faintly with ochraeeous.

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eapecially toward the oatat border; the dark brown softies congregate
into a basal spot which ia marhled with narrow bars of wfait«; they
form also the middle haod, which is of nearly uniform width through-
oat, and ia marbled within with white, griiytsh-white and light brown
bare, is bordered on the inside hroadly, on the outside narrowly, with
whitish bands marbled with narrow transverse bars of dark brown ; out-
side of all there is a broad band of lighter brown, made up of a nearly
uniform marbling of dark brown, ochraceons-brown and grayish-whit«,
the latter faintly dividing the middle with indiBtinet whif« spots in the
interspaces; small white spola also upon the border in the interspaces of
the median nervure, upon which rest larger dark brown spots, the eye
a upper surface; the outer border of the middle band
extends from the costal border erenulat* to the second aub-
\ coBtal nerrule in a general direction at right angles to the
/A costal border; ^m here it estends to the extremity of the
in one very large conical projection, and from the cell
to the inner border moves in crenations, each of which oc-
) interspace, gradually curving towards the base; the inner
}ving from the costal edge has a slight tooth horderwards before
reaching the subcostal nervure, reaches the middle of the cell, is there
bent at right angles down the cell to a point opposite the origin of the
first median uervule, and runs thence in a pretty regular curve to the
inner border in general parallel to the opposite side of the band.
1 J ; Pike's Peak, W. H. Edwards.

The specimen from which this description ia drawn np ia one some-
what rubbed, which should be taken into account in using the above
description. The fringe is nearly gone; Edwards says, "alternate black
and whitish." The nervures may have been flecked with white, but no
trace remains,

3. Ohionobu Oalali.

Chionobaa TaygeU Edwards, Proc. Philiid. Acad. 1B6B, 5T,

Oenri* Taygeit, } (not % ) Hubner, Samml. Eioi Bchmett. Lep. I. Pap. 1.

NTinpIi. IX. Oread. D. Nubileo *, figs. 3, 4.
Expanse of wings $ 2.2 inches.

9 . Head, thorax and abdomen black with oehraceous hairs. An-
tennee reddish-yellow, aunulated, especially above, with reddish-brown;
olub reddish-brown, black-tipped. Palpi with ochre-yellow hairs,iniu-
gled with longer black hairs, which latter are especially prominent be-
neath and at the tip. Femora dusky ; tibite and tarsi pale yellow.

Wings deep ocbraceons-brows, flecked with black on the basal half
and along the costal and outer margin of both wings, eye-like spots be-

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jbru the margin, beneath marbled with ochraoeous aad brown ; the se-
oondariea with a dark middle bandj fringe dark brown, interrupted in
the interspaces with grayish- white.

Above. Prima nVs ochraceous-brown, the costal border marbled with
black and gray! ah- white, distinct next the base, formiDg a dark gniyieh
band towards the tip, contiawed more broadly aronnd the outer to the
inner border as a dark browu band, the inner edge slightly crenulated,
the oul«r edge distinctly black; a very broad band clouded with black,
darkest at the borders, and somewhat tinged with ochraceous in the
middle, crosses the middle of the wing; the nervure closing the cell is
distinctly and narrowly edged with black; the outer border of the band
starts from the dusky costal border beyond the cell at right angles to the
last branch of the qiedian nerrure, projecting outwards as a short tooth
upon this nervure, is there bent at right angles towards the base, ajid
immediately thereafter bends again and passes in broad crenations to
the inner, and subparallel to the outer, border; the inner border of the
band crosses the cell irregularly between the origin of the first and se-
cond median nervules and nearer the latt«r; below the cell, it passes
from the origin of the first median nervule psraliel to the costal border,
but is lost before reaching the inner border. Between this band and the
base the ochraceous is considerably flecked with brownish atoms, less dis-
tinctly next the band; in the broad ochraceous band nest the outer
border, occupying the space left between the two dark bands mentioned,
are situated in cells 2, 3 and 5, large, roundish, inclined to be pyriform.
blind, eye-like spots, that in cell 3 a Httlo smaller and rounder. .SV-
•:oiii!arie» : baaat portion to the extremity of the cell fuscous, largely
tinged with dull ochraceous, except above the cell ; toward the base
very indistinctly marked with faint fuscous and ochraceous ; (he outer
limit of this fuscous basal portion is that of the outside of the middle
band beneath ; the outer border of the wing from the tip of the first
subcostal nervule to the anal angle has a narrow dusky band, narrower
than that of primaries, blackish on the inside where it is very slightly
crenulate, paler along the middle, the edge black again; the marbling
of the under surface shows indistinctly through upon the broad ochra-
eeous-brown band which occupies most of the outer half of the wing.'
and in the interspace between the first and second median nervules is
a round, black, blind, eye-like spot, smaller than any of those of the
primaries.

Beneath. Prlrnariei considerably paler than above; the middle baud
of the upper surface distinct only at the borders, the lower portion of
the outer border straight, the middle space being of the ground color.

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with tranxverse, atightlj wavy streaks, eapeclollj in the cell, of blackiah-
browD ; frequeot aimilur atreaki^ itj the cell between tbe banil and the
base; the coHtal edge distioctlj niKrbled with black and grayish-white
from boae to apex, over which latter portjon it is more diffueed, thoi^h
scarcely reaching the sixth cell except next the outer border, where it
extends at least to the third median nervule, and is bordered toward
the base by a narrow band formed of continuous shallow lannles reach-
ing neither tbe costal nor the inner border ; next to which is a. broad
uchraceous band, with iDfrequent transverse streaks of reddish-brown,
which never cross the nervules; the eyes as above, though more ovoid
in form, and that of cell 5 very indistinctly white pupilled. Se<:oiida.
riKS marbled with transverse bars and streaks of blackish-browo and
graybh-white. tinged with pale ocbraceous-brown in the outer half of
the wing, and with darker ocbraceous-brown in the middle
of the band ; at the base the bare are larger and about
^equally divided; in the band the darker ones are clustered
"^ along the borders so as to be continuous at the extreme
y border ; in the outer half the marbling is pretty uniform, '
g tinged with ochraceous next the middle band, the lighter
colors prevailing throughout this portlou ; midway between the band
and the outer border very indistinct pale jellowish-white spots in tbe
interapacesj the eye reduced to an indistinct small round black spot;
the outer border narrowly edged with black, not eitending to either
angle, a small white spot situated upon it in the interspaces; the inner
border of the middle band is formed of a series of right angles from the
costal border till it has passed the median nervnre ; in the space above
the cell it forms a right angle whose limbs are equal, projecting bor-
derwards, in the cell one whose limbs are unequal projecting basewards,
the short limb being the cootiDuation of that of the interspace above,
extending to the middle of the cell, whence it is directed to the origin
of the first median nervule, is again bent here at right angles before
reaching it and continues to tbe internal nervure, whence it extends
bent slightly borderwards to the inner margin; the outer border of the
band starting Irom the costal border of the wing paMes in one arch to
the second subcostal nervole, here extends borderwards to tbe middle
of the interspace opposite tbe extremity of the cell, and thence moves
in a gradual crenulated curve, passing just beyond the extremity of the
cell to the inner border ; the band is broader than in most species of
the geuns. and is especially so on the median nervures; the nerrnres
are all distinctly flecked with white.

1 9; Albany River, Hudson's Bay. W. H. Edwards.

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Although MQsohler refers in his syooDjinj of C. Tca/gete to all the
figures giveo by Hiibaer as representing TaygeU in his Lap. Exot., yet
he does not seem to inolude ia hia description such forma ss Hiibner
figures for the 9 . I do not find any simikr form of either sex figured
OF described anywhere which corresponds to this $ except the one de-
scribed by Edwards referred to in my synonymy, and from a comparison
of specimens from Labrador which agree perfectly, some (both S and 9 )
with the % as figured there, and another ( 9 , Edwards' specimen) which
agrees with the 9 as Hiibner represents it, I cannot now believe that
they belong tu one species ; it would greatly surprise me if a large num-
ber of specimens should prove it. I have therefore described it here
as a distinct species. The two fonns on Hfibner's plat« are not those
considered by some as distinct species under the names of Taygete
(Bootes Bd.) and Bore ; these, so far as I am acquainted with them,
I agree with Moschler in considering as one speoies, to which the name
of Bore must be given (which Moschler points out to be the older one).
in accordance with the principle I would maintain that the oldest spe-
cific name must always be retained (unless preoccupied) whether given
with a description of the norm or of an aberrant form.

The figure given by Htibner difi'ere from the specimen here described,
both of the same sex, in having the ground color of the upper surface
lighter, but a single less distinct eye (in cell 5 of primaries) and a more
distinct sabmarginal int«rrapted row of blackish bars on both wings ;
beneath the primaries are brighter, hare the one eye largely pupilled
with white, the middle band of the secondaries on both sides (on the
outer most distinctly) bordered with whitish, and in having more clus-
tered blackish scales next the margin forming an inconspicuous dusky
band; the out«r margin of the middle band, moreover, is indented
throughout.

4. CMonoliH Bore-

Chionoha$ Bore Bchlodte, in Rink, Naturhiat. Bidr^ til en Beskriv. af Orda-

laiid, 64
Ckionabae Boota Boiaduval, Iconea htst des Lepidopt. I. 191, PI. 37, Sgs. 4 — 6.
" Hist. gen. at Iconee Lepidopt. de I'Am. 3ept. 31B.

Herrich-SchffiSer, Byat. Bearb. d. Sahmett. von Europn I.

Tagfalter, 69.
MSachler, Wiener ent Monatachr. IV. 343.
Morris, Synop. Lepidopt. N. Am. T2.
CkUmobat Tof/geU Hubner, Samral. £zot. Schmett. Lep. I, Pap. I, Nymph. IX,
Oread. D, Nubilee i, flgs. 1—2.
Herrioh-Schflaffer, Sjat. Bearb. d'Sohmett von Europa I.

Tagfalter 70, .Tab. iii, flge. 112—113.
Doubled ay, West wood and Ilewitson, Qen. Diurn. Lepidopt.

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Expanse of wings % 1.84—2.00; J 1.96— 2.12 inches.

Head, thorax and abdomen black, with hairB of the color of tbe nppet
surface of the viogs; stalk of antennea aoniilated with brown and gray-
tsh-white; clnb light yellowish-brown, faintly annulated with dusky,
the tip much darker. Palpi white, with longer blackish-brown hairs
beneath, tip of mingled hairs priucipally blackish. Femora with black-
ish-brown, tibiae with yellowish hairs.

Wings above; ( dark brown, 9 paler yellowish-brown, with darker
marginal bands; outer border narrowly edged with black; beneath
flecked with hoary on apex of primaries and on whole of secondaries
except the borders of the middle band and a darker submargiual band ;
fringe dnll grayish- white, narrowly interrupted at the nervule-tips with
blackish.

Above. Primarien : basal half of coetal edge flecked or marbled with
frrayish-whit« and dark brown ; % nniformly pretty dark brown, with a
slight yellowish tinge, with a blackish-haired streak as in % of C. Juflu,
only separated from the median nervure next the base. 9 paler or
darker yellowish-brown, with a more or less distinct dusky band along
the whole outer border; the transverse costal streaks of the outer half
of the wing sometimes indistinctly showing through from the under
surface; generally without eyes, in cell 5 sometimes an indistinct
brownish eye, largely gray-pupilled. Secondaries: % as in primaries,
the markings of the under surfece showing through pretty distinctly ;
a submat^nal band of indistinct yellowish-hrown spots, between which
and the border a very indistinct dusky band ; 9 the whole basal half
dusky, sometimes less distinctly so next the base, the markings of the
under surface showing through ; outer half of wing paler than the pri-
maries, a rather broad marginal band of blackish-brown, always more
distinct on its inner margin, whore it condenses into transverse blackish
bars between the nervules, to which the band is sometimes almost con-
fined, and upon which sit faint yellowish-white spots, barely discerni-
ble.

Beneath. Primarieg paler than above; varying from pale to deeper
yellowish-brown, at the apex grayish -white, extending down the outer
border to the median nervules and sometimes spreading as a hoary tint
over nearly the whole apex beyond the cell ; the whole wing, except
inner border, transversely barred with more or less clustered grayish-
brown streaks, which almost always congregate with greater distinctness
to form two larger narrow transverse streaks reaching from the costal
C|uite or near to the inner border, one submarginal. the othercrossing at

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the extremity of the cell, bent at the Itunt inediau nervule ; they ftre
also generally collected to form a Blender Btreak betneea the two, ex-
tending JTom the coetal border half way over the wing, and to form h
spot or tranaverae streak in the middle of the eel! ; in ceil ft there is

occasionally an indistinct small white spot. Secondaries: the baaal
portion of the wing before the band next the base is blackish-brown,
marbled slightly with grayish-white, next the baud grayish- white, mar-
bled slightly with blackish-browQ, formiog a narrow baud
bordering the middle band, broad on the costal border, nar-
and more obscured on the inner; the band is rather
'\ broad, ite outer limits distinctly though but narrowly black-
y ish, its inner portion marbled with narrow, short, transveriH!
streaks of blackish-brown and yellowish-brown scales, darker
next the limits, sometimes obscured by hoarioess, especially at eosital
border, where it is almost always present ; the inner border forms a
pretty regular cur¥e bent at the extremities towards the apex, except
that it forms a broad deep depression in the middle in the lower half
of the cell, which reaches the origin of the first median nervule ; the
outer border is also pretty symmetrically curved except it bends abruptly
ut right angles on the second subcostal nervule, extending outwards a
shorter or longer distance, and thence curves pretty regularly to the
inner border, though when it extends outwards considerably at the se-
cond median nervule it generally has a slight depression at the first
median nervule ; it is generally toothed slightly on the subcostal half of
its course, especially on either side of the second subcostal nervule, and
crenulatc on the median half, but it is sometimes even throughout its
course; beyond the band the basal half is generally more or leas hoary,
with generally a distinct hoary band next the middle baud; there is a
submarginal band, generally of equal width with the hoary band, of
uniform marbling of blackish -brown and yellowish-brown transverse
streaks, washed more or less, or sometimes not at all, with hoary, in the
outer margin of which are generally seen pale yellowish spots in the
interspaces ; next the border a marginal band generally of greater width
than the preceding, of black ish -brown Bcales, more or less marbled next
the margin with the paler colors and always most distinct away from
the margin, forming there deeper or fainter Bpote of blackish-brown in
the interspaces to which the band is sometimes limited, small white
spots frequently sitting upon the border in the interspaces ; nervures,
when not rubbed, distinctly flecked with white.

2 % ,3 <i; Hopedale, Labrador. Dr. A. S. Packard, J r. I^abrador.
W. H. Edwards.

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Among the specimeoB recdved through the kindnesa of Mr. Edwards.
are !i t^ marked Bootet and a } marked Taygete, ao ticketed by MiMchler,
aod both underatood to be from Labrador. la agreement with Mosch-
ler I believe C. Bootee and 0. TaygeU to be the same Bpeoiea.

5. CUonobu Oeno.

OiiVtnohas Oetto BoisduTal, leonea hist. d«B Lepidopt. I. 106, PL SB, figs, k — 6.
" Hist. gen. et Iconee Lepjdapt. de TAm. Sept. 220.

Morris, Synop. Lepidopt. N. Am. 72,

MBaohler, Wiener, Eotom. Monataehr. IV. 3*2; VII. 311.
(%tonoda« AUo Boisduval, Hist. gen. et Icones Lepidopt. de I'Am. Sept. 222.
Morris, Sjnop. Lepidopt. K. Am. Tl.
MOsohler, Wiener, Ent. Monataolir. VII. 203.
Chiawihi^ Oravihia Doubleday, Westwood and Hewitson, Genera Diurnal Lep-
idopt. 383.
(Boisduval in his Icones hist, des Lepidopt. does not describe his ('.
Aho as from America escept the White Mouataio specimens which be-
long to another species, C. semiih/i. By agtrange confusion of etiquettes
on specimens received originally from Dr. Harris, he speaks of it as
called 5";. eritiona by Harris. See my paper iu Bost. Journ. Nat.
Hist. Vll. 618.)

Expanse of wings % 1.78— 2.04 in,; 9 1.96— 2.1i in.
Head, thoras and abdomen black, with blackish -brown hairs; stalk
of antennas above blackish -brown annulated with white, below brownish-
yellow delicately an nulated with brownish; club above yellowish-brown,
below brownish -yellow, tip more dusky. Palpi above whitish or grayish-
haired, tip black ish-h aired; beneath blackish-haired, more or less, some-
tinies very much, mised with yellowish-brown hairs. Legs brownish,
tibiffi lighter than femora.

Wings above varying from dark brown to yellowiah-brown, primaries
sometimes with small obsolete eye-like spots, secondaries with the de-
sign of the under side sometimes ahowiug through; beneath, primaries
like upper surface, hoary-tipped ; secondaries marked with blackish-
brown, ochraceous-brown and grayish- white, with a darker middle band
bounded by grayish bands sometimes obscured by uniform marbling ;
the outer border of the wings delicately edged with black ; fringe pure
white, grayish-white or grayish-yellow, interrupted at nervule-tips with
blackish.

Above. PriinariKi dark brown, more or less tinged with reddish,
either uniformly or a little more oonaiderably nest the outer border,
often deepening into very indistinct spota in the interspaces; sometimes
uniform dark brown, considerably tinged with yellowish; sometimes
slate-brown, the border paler or tinged with yellowish; the costal edge

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more cpt leas distinctly marbled with <;rayish-whil:e and blscliish-browD.
in my spetrimeoa more distincilj in the 9 ; occasionallj in cell 5, very
seldom in cell 2, and in one instance before me also in cell 3, very small,
indistinct, generally rery faintly gray-pnpilled eyee ; in the example
which has an eye in cell 3, that eye ia but a dot, those of cells 2 and 5
large, oval, blind; in one % with Mijachler's etiquette of " Crambu"
there is a very indistinct, indefinite hairy gpot on the median nervure
aa in C. Bore. Secondariet much like the primaries, more duslcy on
the basal half, paler in a submarginal band, in which are generally dia-
tinct, small, yellowish-white or ochre-yetlow spots in the interspaces.
with a blackish-brown or blttckish submargina) band condensing int<>
spots between the nervules; sometimes the markings of the under snr-
fece, and sometimes even the outer limit of the band, show through
scarcely at all upon the upper surface, while in other cases all of the
markings are plainly seen, especially on the outer half.

Beneath. Primaries scarcely paler than the upper surface ; some-
times not at all, sometimes considerably, flecked with blackish-brown,
occasionally condensing into minute transverse streaks, more abundant
on the outer half of the wing ; whole costal edge distinctly marbled
with black and white; apex flecked or marbled with grayish-white and
blackish-brown, seldom encroaching on the 5th cell ; occasionally the
cross nervule cloeing the cell narrowly edged with black ; the eyes of
the upper surface sometimes repeated beneath, and then similar Id cha-
racter; the individual before noted with the large spots, however, ha,'^
them distinctly white-pupilled beneath. Sccoiidariea : basal portion as
far as the band either nearly uniformly marbled with grayish-white and
blackish- brown, but with the darker colors slightly in excess near the
base, or distinctly darker nest the base, and only distinctly
gray in a hand bordering the middle hand which is very
\ broad next the outer border and sometimes only linear nest
Nthe inner border; in my specimens the former is generally
z the case in the 9 , the latter in the S , but I question whe-
ther a larger number of specimens would exhibit the same distinctions;
the middle band is considerably darker, generally quite narrowly edged
with blackish, within marbled with blackish and reddish-brown, the
lighter colors gradually less distinct next the border ; the band is not
90 broad as usual ; its inner border passes in a regular curve from the
inner border of the wing to the middle of the cell, not reaching so far
outward aa the divarication of the median nervure ; from here it is bent
abruptly toward the base and forms a broad, rounded and considerable

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projection in that direction to the middle of the interepoce beyond the
snbcoetal Derrnre ; the outer margia starting irom the costal border
runs generally in a straight line a little inwards to the second subcos-
tal nerrule ; bent outwards, generally rather abruptly, it extends in a
broad curve to the inner border, sometimeB in a smooth line, frequently
crennlated, occasionally slightly angulated; thia broad curve ia gene-
rally depreaeed basewards more or tese at the first median nerrnle, but
Dccasionally it is wantiog ; the abrupt chaoge at the second subooetal
oerrnle is also sometimes obeonred so aa to be nanoticeable by the an-
^larity of the band at ^is point, ani it is sometimes indistJnguish-
uble even where the coarse of the mai^n is smooth. Beyond the
middle baud the wing is marbled with blackish-brown, ochraceous
and grayish-white, the latter most conspicnoos on the portion next
the middle band, forming a band bordering the middle band in which
the oehraceouB tints are seldom seen ; between thia and a dusky
border band which ia sometimes indistinct, sometimes conspicuous by
the presence of blackisb-brown spota in the interspaces either at its
marginal or internal border, there is generally an indistinct band of
blackish-brown and ochraceous marbling, with some interspersed scales
of grayish-white J in this band are small, round, white, grayish-white
or yellowish- white, generally distinct spots; sometimes the whole apical
portion of this wing beyond the middle band is so obscured by grayish
scales as to be nearly uniformly hoary, though deeper away from the
border ; sometimes the whole wing is so nearly unifonnly marbled with
blackish-brown and grayish-brown spots (not streaks), the latter occa-
sionally tinged with ochraceous, that the middle band and all the other
bands are quite obliterated ; quite frequently the whole base aa far as
the outer border of the middle band is almost wholly obf^oated with
blackish-brown or blackish so as to show no trace of the middle band ex-
cept its outer border, in which case the outer half of the wing is gene-
rally nearly uniformly marked, and may even itself be almost wholly
obscured by blackish; the modifications and interchanges of all these
variations show, however, that all the specimens exhibiting them, in-
eluding not only the variations heretofore referred by authors to C,
Aho, but also those specimens of greater uniformity of aspect referred
to C. Oeno Bd , must be referred to one and the same species.

7 S , 5 9 i Hopedate and Strawberry Harbor. Labrador ; Dr. A. S.
Packard, Jr. Labrador ; W. H. Edwards.

Moschler, in his article upon the genus Okionobai in Europe (Wiener
Entomologische Monatsohrift VII, 169), and we believe all previous
authors, have considered the species described by Boisduval under the

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names of C Ouno uid C. Alto to be distiact. On a moet rigid codi-
pftrison of Moachler'i descriptions of the two forms, together with all
his notes, aim] a. comparison of the twelve individuals io the collection
before me from T^abrador, which mnst belong to one or the other or to
both, undertaken, too, with a general bias in favor of Moachler's deter-
minations ae evincing evident care and good judgment, I most confess
myself unable to see any good ground for considering C. Oeno as dis-
tinct ^m C. ^foi?, not withstan ding Mbschler's remark that "Oeno can-
not easily be confounded with any of the allied species" (p. 213).

Id the first place I would call attention to some incongruities in the
descriptions of Moschler. In hie description of 0. Also he first says.
'- Primaries with or without 1-2 black, sometimes white pupilled eyes.
Seoondarieswithouteyes" (pp.208-9). He nestBays: "All specimens
agree in this, that the eecondaries always bear an eye either on the
upper or ou the under side" (p. 209). A few lines after, under the
description of the male, these words occur: "All the wings without
trace of eyes" (p, 309). Only two lines after this we find, still under
the description of the male, that there are " in the cells of all the wings
yellow points, cell 5 of the primaries with a small blind hlack eye, whioh
tm the under side is distinctly white -pupil led" (pp. 209-10). The
next reference we find to th^e eyes is under the description of the
female, where the primaries are '■ either * * * without eyes, or * * with
* * two black eyes in cells 2 and 5, of whioh the firat is sometimes
white pupilled, or * * * two eyes, of which aoiuetinies both are pupilled.
sometimes both are blind, suroetiuies one blind, the other pupilled"
(pp. 210 — 11). Speaking further on of the underside in the female,
he says: " Should the upper side of the primaries have eyes, beneath
tbey are always whtte-pnpilled " (p. 211). I will only add that the
specimen of Chionobm before me, labelled ■'Crambii" by Moschler,
(whioh he considers synonymous with Abo) has no trace of eyes on
primaries or secondaries above or beneath. Such discrepancies as these
of course render this part of his description uiteless.

■' Oeno," says Moschler, ■' cannot easily be confounded with any of
the allied species; both the lesser sise and the diaphanous coloring, but
moet eapeoially the coloring of the under side of the seoondaries, sepa-
rate this species decisively from the others" (p. 213). We quote this
to show that in these very points we cannot see why C. Omo should
be separated from G. At»o. These are the distinotioDS ae given by

I. The expanse of win^ as given by Miiscbler, is for C. Aho 42—50
millimetres; for C Oeno 4&-43 millimetres.

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II. The tmnspunaey oFth« wtugti. Vuin the InHe Id tbe dttMtlp-
tion of O. Aim, referring td a deecriptioa by BoisduVbl, MSnchUr nys :
" These wordH (letir tTuspaKace eit Mile, que Ton Wt h ttHVerB tout
te detain dn deMous) oeruinly refer well to Omo H. Soh., for I never
fmnd in Oambu {Alto Bd.) the deaign of the nii<1flr aid6 of the ite-
condaries appeariog ao diatinctl; on the Upper Bide M is iiib vasi in
Oeno" (p. 208). Further on, under the deacription of the npper snr-
fkce of C. Oeno, he tayt : " The aeoondariM an of ii llk6 eolor with (he
primariea, the dusky marhling of the under aide ahlnee diitinetly
throngheepeciallyon the outer half of the wing" (p. 213). N6 refe-
rence is made to such (AosparenAy of the wingD in C. Also.

III. The detign of the under side of the aeoondarlea; thesptelal dis-
tincUona inaiated upon are:

A. The coloration of the nervttrea.

On this point, under the dmoription of 0. Abto, MSaohler saya:
'- Xervurea not flecked with white" (p. 209) ; and further on, " tht
nerrnrea of the seooodariee are Oct flecked with While on the Qnder
aide" (p. 211). Under the deacription of O. (7eiioWeflnd theMW<irdt:
" Nerrnrea ** deUcalely flecked with white" (p. 211); and again,
" the nerYUrea In all &esh apecinieoa are rubbed with whitJah and mar-
bled by the black of the ground color" (p. 218). "In worn speei-
mens " it ia atated, among other things, that " the white flecking of tlte
nerrnrea is wanting" (p. 213). In his compariaon of BoisduTal's platee
of C. Otno and C. Alto, he aaya, furthermore, " the nefruree in llg. 6
are flecked with white u Oeno always shown them, but Ofambit [i. e.
Alio] ncTer" (p. 2U8).

B. Spots on the hind border of aeooBdariea.

Under C. Oeno we find the " border with bkek spots sitnated be-
tween the nervorea" (p. 211). This refera to the node' side. Alittle
beyond, desenbing the opper side of the sooendariee, he nya : " The
border ia ohameteriied by olnst«red blackish atoms, which form od the
neirnrea black apota aitoated on the white (Vinge, which in the 9 are
much more distinctly and broadly marked than in the S " (p. 212).
Returning i^in to the deseription of the under aide of the same, he
tnentions that " befbre the border the black ooitdenses into apota whieh
are both estAbtished npon the border and aim cut throagb the fiinge
as well, whereby this appears more broadly dappled with black than in
the allied speoiee" (p. 213); but he does not here tell ns whether
they are situated upon er betweeu the nerrnretf; llie former ia the case
both aboTB and below in the speeimeDs before me. In his comparisooa
of BoiaduTsl's figures again, apeaklug of the under surface he aaya :

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" Uram&i* [i. e. Aho] also always waota tlie black spote situated od the
border, whioh form a priuoipa! distinction in Oeno " (p. 208) ; and onoe
more, " fioally the row of black apota before the border ahowa itaelf
diBtiDotlj only in Oeno, though in Orambit [AUo] a duaky coloring
extends along the border, yet does not exhibit so sharply defined deep
black spot« aa ia Oeno" (p. 209).

C. The general direotioa of the band.

Under 0. Alio it is stated that " on the outside the baud runs from
the inner border [costal border is meant] to nervure 6, where it is bent,
whence it aometimes extends widely towards the border [outer border]
to a pointed tooth, but more frequently forms only a short projection
and continues gradually beat backwards to nerrnre '^od, thence bent
again, reaching the inner border. On the inside it forms on the front
nervnre of middle cell an arch upon the inside, which sometimes
curves very strongly, but generally only a little, and then extends to
the inner border in conformable carves with the other side" (p. 210) ;
of the same parts in 0. Oeru) he says, " This band on the inside tarns
back towards the base to a greater or less extent on the subdorsal and
sttbcoBtal nervures, whereby a concavity {^Einbwihhtag) ia formed in
the middle cell. Upon the outside it runs into a pretty symmetrical,
bluntly indented* arch extending to the border, widest at the 4th ner-
vure" (p. 212); and in additiou to the distinctions given in these ex-
traots, there is the following remark on the comparison of Boisdu-
val's descriptions ; " The expression ' crfinelfe,' which ia applied to the
outside of the middle band, suits perfectly the form of this band in
Oeno, much less in Cramlm (Also)" (p. 2U9).

D, The frequent obliteration of the bands by the uniform marbling
or obfuscation of the whole surface.

Under 0. AUo he saya, " In some specimens in my oolteotion the
whole under sur&oe of the secondaries is so obscured by black marbling
that the middle band appears searoely darker than the ground, and
the light bands oJ both aides of them only appear through indistinctly"
(p. 210). Under C. Oeao lo speaking of the gray bands bordering
the middle band he says, " the inner is often wholly obscured by dusky
atoms, and the outer also is oflen scarcely distinguishable, so that in
such examples the whole wing appears uniformly marbled with white
and black" (p. 213). He further remarks in hia observations on Bois-
duval's %ures and desoriptions, " The description of the underside of
the. secondaries by Boisduval can be applied still less to Uramhix

•A "variety" U mentioned where it ia deeply iudeated.

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[^'m>]. He Bays I. o. ' * * traveTsfi an milien par nne bande * * * ^i
ijuflquffai* k perrl preiquf. eomplitetnent dans let tnarbruret de fond
****.' We cannot say of the latter apeoies [^fto] that this band
bleoda perfectly into the design of the ^onnd, for in GramhU [Aho^
the middle band is always distinctly separated from the ground color,
while in dark colored specimens of Oeno the black marbling certainly
covers band and ground color so uniformly, that it becomes difficult to
distingnish the former in its course" (pp. 208, 9).

tn regard, to these Tarious points of distinction which are now clearly
set forth in opposition, I will bring forward the following conaidera-
' tions. I have nnder examination a S of C AUo, marked Crambia by
MoBchler himself, as I am informed, which agrees well with the dis-
tiDotive characters of C. Also as he gives them. I have also undoubted
specimens of C. Oeno from Labrador, in one of which no trace what-
ever remains of the middle band upon one wing, and the scarcely dis-
cemihle outline of its outer limit upon the other, which has also pro-
minent black spots upon the border of secondaries, some of the ner-
Tures delicately flecked with white, and the markings of the under
snrftce showing through upon the upper side with almost perfect dis-
tinctness ; it measures, however, fifty millimeters in expanse of wings.

Now between these two I have not before me every shade of differ-
ence, but I believe that a larger number would show it unquestionably,
for in the comparatively few which I have, I find those which I can-
not reasonably place with one rather than with the other, which have
the outer border of the band varying so much that in some I find it
freeing with 0. AUo in its abrupt arching of the central portion,
sometimes bent at the second nervure and not at the sixth, sometimes
at the sixth and not at the second, sometimes with a continuous curve,
and in all these cases sometimes with cronulations, sometimes without,
though the continuous curve is generally accompanied by crenulations,
and the bending of the border at the second and sixth nervures to form
the arching of the central portion is osnally unaccompanied by orenn-
lations ) the flecking of the nervures with white appears to be equally
unimportant. The specimen marked " Crambit" by Moschler, which is
ao undoubted C. Alto, shows a portion of the nervures delicately flecked
with white, while an unquestionable C. O-tw with nearly uniform black
marbling shows none at all, and so it varies indiscriminately through
the series ; and further, although those which approach most nearly t^
the description of C. Oeno as given by M&scbler do generally have
black spots on the border, I have before me two indivldnals with nni-

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form DMvhUng, ua4o4bt^ apowneiui of C. Oeno, vhioh b^va no spou
whfltoTer, aii,«| of thoae abont which I un in doubt vhetber to place
qitb one or th« other, tome btiva utd aone have not theee bkok spots,
wd when in this they sppretu^ CK Oen« they »re qnits aa a|>t ih
their other chaiEtoteiB to reseinble C. Alio. Neither am, I able (the
oikly other reaoit) to separate thoae with the neaily uaiform marbUns
froi^ aU t)tfi Feat, siaoe some of the latter haye the eouiae of the nuddle
band precisely the same, hare the bUek sfote on the seeondariea, and
show the markings throogb upon the ttpper side in some oases as wdl.
So that the regiilt of n^ oomparifona \a, that I cannot believe that the
ittdividuala separated by Moschler as two distinct species under the
nameB whioh Boi^nval first gave them of O. Oeno and 0. AUo, in
reality belong to ntore than oqe rather more than nsnally variable
species.

t. OUonobaa femidea.

CHonobat lenidta Bdwarda, in Morris' S^nop. Lepidopt. N. Amer. 351.
Boudd«r, Proc. Essex Inst. III. lOS,

" ^<mC. Jour. Hat. Hifll Til. 631. PI. XIT, figs. 2-S.
mpfVTthyi.»*P<i4« Bg^, Ainsr. SnC PI. SO.

" ' Ent of N. Amer. (Ed. Leoonte), I. 113. PI. SO.
Harris, Ins. injurious to Yog. (Ed. IS63), S04, fig. 120.
Otnonjin^ta aemidta Morris, Synop. Lepidopt. N. Amer. 80.
dueticbat Alto BoisduTal, loones. hist. des. Lepidopt. 1. 14T.

" Hist. gen. etIcone»LapidiDpt. ds I'Aai^. SepL 19T.

Sa^rut eri(fo»(t! Svrit tests B<»»du7al, loones hiet, dM Lepidopt L 197.—
(9ee m; remarks oii,p..l3.)

Effpaiue of winp % i.80-^2.06, average 1.92 in. 9 1.76—2.08, ave-
rage 1.98.

Head, thorax and abdomen black with blackish brown and yellowish
brown halra, the tatter especially upon the abdomen ; back of bead
and front of thorax witJt many grayish scales. Antennae brownish-
yellow, generally paler or brighter on the clnb with a line of black
scales above, ganeptUly continued to the tip, and of white scales on the
stalk below; extm^a^tipofoluboElea dusky. Palpi with lon^ blackish
hairs b^ow, short whitish hairs above, Brags dark brown, femora
darker than tibi«e or yellowish-brown ; tibisa, especially anterior pair,
flecked with gray.

Wings above nearly uniform dark brown, the markings of the under
Rurfoce of secoadbries appearing through, the whole outer margin deli-
cately edged wiUi blaek; beneath, primaries a little paler, apex marbled

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witk hUek. and white ; aemndwim marblod witli bUolciali, bUckick-
brown, grayiBh-oahmomos xad gnjidi-whiM, » broad duk middle
baud eroMing the wing ; friage ftltemate browBtsh-white and blaokiBh-
brown, the latter at the oerTiue tips, whoUj blaekiih>brgiru along the
ioner edge of eeeondaries.

Above. PrintarU* nnlfonn dnlt browaieb-ftueoas, more or less elightl;
dnged widi ochraoeons; the whole costal edge, rerf narrowly at tip,
marked with blaokish-bniwii and grajish-wkite, geDerally quite dis-
tinctly^; in cell 5 oeeasioiially a minnte gray-paprlled eye Bonierimea
barely disoemible; abont one out of Stc of these under exarainatkni
have it, though tbU number mdudea all which bare the mereet dot; the
markings of the under side show through slightly al the apex. Sreon-
riariet: the tnarkingB of the noder snri^ce invariably appear upon the
upper with eousidersble diBtinctuess, m much, and generally urore
so than iu C. Oeno; the basal half of about the same vnifbrm lint as
the primaries, or a shade darker, in the outer half more or less dis-
tincdy mottled with gisyiih-fiiscouB and brown isfa-fusoons, sometimes
darker next the margin. Beneath. I^mariet sli^tty paier than the
upper surface; the ooet«l border is marked with blackish and whitish,
usually increasingly so away frsm the base, broadening iutc a spot at
the apex, which, however, does not osually encroach on (he fiflib cell,
except to form a similar border to the outer margin as far as the second
median nervule ; the eye when present is repeated below; just ss mi-
nutely but generally distinctly white-pupilled; the onlyoCher marking
which is generally seen upon all specimens is a dusky broad band bor-
dering the outer limits of the oell, which is most dietiuct at ita outer
borders, one along the- cross-nervole closing the cell, the other beyond
not quite parallel to it, bat rather more nearly at rigliti amgles to the
costftl border ; thu band eiteada to the third median nervule, or if it
exists beyond it, it is either continued on as a ^eoa» blotch' to the
second median nervule or the darker streak of the out«r margin' only
is bent towards the base subparallel to tJie outer margin of the wing*
and eoatjnuQB as far as the first median nervule. Besides these, how-
ever, there is usually a freckling of the wing with brown, eitlier nni-
I'ormly distributed or most frequently more distinotiy on the outer half
and especially the upper portion of it, or BometimE» confined to the
outer half only, sometimes olustering into short ti&nsveree streaha,
especially between the axtfemity of the oell aud. the outer margin.
'Secondaries : basal portion marbled wilb blaoknsh or blaokiafa-brown
and grayish-whit«, very eddom ojaifbrmly distributed, the latter oon^i--

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cnoiu only as a band bordariug the middle band, broadest next the costal
border, the latter generally entirely obacnriDg the rest of
I the baaal field and Bometimes qnite or almcet oblitemting

I the grayish band, the middle band very broad, colored

A more nnifonnly than in moet of the allied apedes, and
J darker in proportion to the rest of the wing tbaa is usu-
ally the case ia the other species, marbled with blickish
and grayish-fuBCODS, occaeionally tinged slightly with ochraceonB, the
black condensing along the borders iota narrow bands, the rest of the
band generally nearly uniform in tint and not often deepening in color
from the middle; the inner border in passing from the costal margin
is generally bent outwards before reaching the subcoetAl nervure with
u slight generally angular pit, and then passing the subcostal nervure
by bot a little space is bent very deeply into a V-shaped, occasionally
U-shaped depression, extending nearly to the inner border, the bot.
torn of the depresuon reaching nearly, very seldom quite, to the origin
of the first median nervule; I have one specimen where the inner
border crosses the wing with but a slight trace of any depression ; the
usual direction of the outer border may be said to be that of two nearlj'
or quite straight creuulate lines, bent upon the third median nervule
as fiir beyond the extremity of the cell as the width between the ner-
vules at this point, at an angle of about 95 — 90 degrees, occasionally
projecting into a slender tooth at this point, one end of the band strik-
ing the costal border at snob a point that a line drawn from it at right
singles to the margin would strike about midway between the origin of
the second and third subcostal nervules, the other strikiog the inner
border at a point as fitr from the tip of the first median nervule as that
is from the middle of the interspace between the tips of the second
and third median nervules; this angle is, however, often obscured by
a more or less r^;ular curve to the whole line, which again is now and
then indented in a similar manner to C. Oeno, but it almoet Invariablv
shows a tendency to return to this angular appearance, and the con-
tinuous haseward direction of the border as it approaches the costal
margin is quite a peculiar feature in this species.

Beyond the middle band the wing is marbled with blackiah-brown.
grayish-ochraceouB and grayish-white, the latter almost always condensed
and connected next the middle band to form a band bordering it, rarely
tinged fkintly with bluish ; sometimes the blackish-brown is condensed
into spots sitting upon the outer border; very seldom indistinct whitish
dot« are present in the interspaces halfway between the middle bund

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aod the margia ; oooaMooally, thongh bnt very aeldom, the oater half
of the wing ia uaiformly marbled throagkoat, sod in tome individuali
the whole wiag Ib eorered with nearly nniform marbling, or is so ob-
scured by blackish that the matkings u here desoribed are indietin-
guiflhable, and in such oasea the aadar Burfaoe of the seoondarieB can-
not be distinguished firom similar oases in C. Oeno; the nervures are
not flecked with white.

Thirty % , twenty-four J .

Alpine summite of the White MonnttunB, New Hampebire, 6500 —
6300 feet above the sea.

(Harris remarksjn hiB lujnriouB InseotB, p. 304, that " it has also been
seen on the Monadnock Mountain, and will probably be disooTered on
the tops of high mountaina in our own State, if looked for at the proper
season." Some other Satyrid must have been mistaken for this by the
observer on Mt. Monadnock, I am very sure, though that mountain,
with its barren summit, would be more favorable for its habitation than
any in our own State, for the highest of these not only is wooded to the
summit, but I have ascended it many times at all Beasona of the year,
on entomological excursions, without meeting with this butterfly.)

The first description and figure of this species was that given by Say
in his American Entomology, plate 50. In this figure the secondaries
are represented broader than in nature, und in the coloring it is not
very accurate; the upper surface is not dark enough, and should not
have the nervures so reddish as given there; the under sur&ce of the
aeconduries never has so marked an infusion of ochraceous colors in the
outer half, and when it is at all conspicuously present, it also eshibita
it somewhat on the basal half; the character also of the markings on
the basiil half is an unusual one, not representing the norm.

The plate given in the republication of this work, with his other
writings collected by Dr. LeConte, is one which was re-engraved for
the work, the original being one of the few which were nnfortunately
destroyed. As it is a faithful copy, the fkults of outltne are retained;
it nas colored, however, from a specimen furnished by myself; the
upper surface is thereby much improved, being in the main satisfactory;
the under Burface of tlie secondaries i», however, even worse, if anything,
than the original, the ground color being given as almost dull olivace-
ous, and the marbling represented by coarse irregular blotching rather
than by confluent, short, transverse streaks or bars; beyond the middl6
band the darker colors are just where the lighter ones should be; whitish
bands are ^ven only as v£ry narrowly bordering the middle band, as I

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bare never seen them, and the onter border of the middle band is that
of ntber a peculiar variatioD, the exaot Donnterpart of wbioh-I do not
remember to have nottoed anless when aoeompanied b; grayiah mark-
ings tovard the onter border, entirely absent in this Bgnre; something
near it, however, is seen in those forms which show most reeembUnoe
to C. 0«K>.

The desoription giren hj Harrie in the poethnmoos edition of big
work on Injarions Insects is inaccurate in stating that the male differs
fi-om the female in baring the wings '' paler and with more of an ochre-
yellow tint" The figure is quite good for a. wood out, bat the mark.
ingB of the outer half of the seoondaries beneath are too coarsely repre-
sented, and the specimen from which it was figured, probably f\irtiiBhed
by myself, unfortunately again represents one in vbioh the inner mur-
^n of the middle baud, and tbe whole basal field is quite obscured by
blackish ; the outer mai^a of the middle baud is well represented and
normal.

The figure given by myself in my paper on tbe Insects of tbe White
Mountains ia much more satisfactory, and, indeed, leaves little to be
desired that oould be given in a plate of that kind. One or two pwuts,
however, may be mentioned : it ia exceedii^ly seldom that specimens
are seen with a narrow black band between the middle band and tbe
base of the wing on tbe under side of secondaries; the inner mai^in of
the middle band has in the figure an unusually shallow depression on
tbe median nervure not nearly reaching ite first branch ; the outer
mai^n of the same is not bent so abruptly as usual, and extends even
further than usual up the costal border ; and lastly, the upper side of
primaries should not have so distiuct a lighter outer half, sinc^ the color
is nearly uniform, but the outer half should be represented as dark as
the base; in the secondaries tbe diaphanous markings of the onder
side make the difference.

Or. Bebr having expressed (Proo. Calif. Aead. Nat. Sc. III. 165)
tus doubts about the feeding plant of Qiionobat iemiiiea, in cnasequence
of some indefinitenesB in my statement that they fed on a lichen {Pel-
tigera eaniita Hdtm.'), I will state what I know in r^ard to them more
eiplieitlj. I have new found more than six or eight speoimens, and
f^ these not more than half alive; those found alive were always fonnd
i^ion this fleshy liohen, but were never seen aiitnally eatiog it, though
if s^ memovy serves me aright,* the liohen in one case had been eaten

• I did not then knew the pouible doubt of their feeding on aDjihing die
tban Konoeotjlsdoni, aa let fbrth b^ Dr. Behr.

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at the edges; tlie adrcvw drcnmetfiDces happening to attend tbe effort
to rear them in the valley below were enough to account for mj want
of BUCCCM. Mr. F. G. Sanborn haa msoe duoovered them, Bome drowned
in pools of water, bnt all living ooee crawling ahont on the rocks where
this lichen grows, thongh never feeding.

In a paper already referred to, entitled " Remarks on some chuw)-
teristics of the Insect Fauna of the White Mountains, N. H," when
speaking cf this inseot, I remarked aa follows: "whether or not it ie
distinct from tboee of Oreenl&nd and Labrador, or the numerous, but
most closely allied epeciea which have been described aod figured from
northern Europe, T cannot, from the oonfusion in which the spe-
cies of this genus appear to be, and for the want of any specimens from
other qnarters, at present determine, bnt sntisfy tnyaelf, on this oocs-
aion, with a more detailed description of the species than has yet been
given, only suggesting, that should it ultimately prove to be distinct,
it will only be u case aaalagous to what we find in the species next to
be mentioned," i. e. the presence upon the barren summits of a species
of Ai^nnis {A. Montinut Scodd.), distinct from, thongh closely allied
to A. Boitduvalu Somm., found farther north. Only a month or two
afterwards Moschler's Memoir on the genus Chionobat in Europe ap-
peared, in which the species described by previous authors were treated
to a thorough revision, so that every difficulty from that source van-
ished, and at the present time the opportunity of examining quite a
number of individuals from various parts of this country, belonging to
all the hitherto described species recognised on the oontinent, baa sat-
isfied me that the oonjeoture ventured there is fully established; but I
have found that the description last given by me, though " more de-
tailed" than any previous one, was etill not explicit enough to be need
satisfactorily in distjogniebing it from the allied species, and have
therefore presented one here which will be sufficient, I hope, for that
purpose.

It is more nearly allied to C. Oeno than to any other Chionobai, the
two being true representative species rather than what I have termed
equivalent species or species of replacement (Froo. Boat. Soo. Xat. Hiat.
IX. 106) ; it is, moreover, more nearly allied to those fbrms of the spe-
cies which have been called C. Oeno by Boisduval than to those he
would place in C. Aho, although he referred it to bis 0. AUo.

Cki«niAaa Neeadawa Boiadaval H8., Behr, Froc. Calif. Aoad. Nat Bo. III. 183.
Another species of Vhvmobat is referred to by Dr. Behr in his in-
teresting "Notes on Cslifomian Satyrides" (1. c. pp. 168 — 166) not

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yet desoribed, but named in MS. by Boieduval Ne.Ba-lemU. Dr. Behr
says : " A few apecimeas of this new &nd as yet undescribed Ckiiinob'i»
vere caught by Mr. LorqaiQ, the diaeoverer of the species, and named
by Dr. BotsdiiTal. Not possesaing a single specimen of this rare spe-
cies, I am Dot able to give a diagnosis, and have oaly an Indistinct reoot-
lection, that the speoiee bore most resemblance to the QeroDtogeic CT.
Tarpeja, a Siberian species that has also been found on the sammit of
the Apennines, In Italy, bat that in size it ts superior to any Ghioiiolxif
known to me."

Taking for granted that my views in regard to the distinction of tlie
species of this genus in North America are just, and that Moscbler has
correctly stated the value of the difierences he has noticed among those
of Europe, with the exception of his separation of the individuals be-
longing to C. Oeno into two species {Of.no and AUo), and admitting the
exactitude of his assertions — and those of many others — that several
species of the genus are oommoij to tbe subarctic regions of either side
of the Atlantic — we must picture to ourselves the genus Chionvbtu as
composed of butterflies of a sombre appearance nearly uniform in color-
ation upon their upper surface, beneath brightened by blackish and
and whitish contrasting colors, so arranged upon the secondaries as to
form a band crossing the middle of the wing, of varying width and
direction; the species inhabiting inhospitable regions, either (1) as far
toward the poles as where the snow lies upon the surface of the ground
by far the greater portion of the year, or (2) far above the limit of the
trees growing upon the sides of lofty mountains in the temperate re-
^ons; and as to the geographical distribution of the specie.*, either (1)
common to the arotio regions of both sides of the Atliintie, the indivi-
duals of each species compassing the same range and char>icter of vari-
ation upon either side, some (a) found throughout the arctic regions
over a nearly continuous belt of country {0. Jutta, C. Bore); others
(b) found at the extremes and not in the intermediate countries, such
as Greenland ( 6'. Oeno) ; or (2) confined to the arctic regions of En-
rope and not found io America ((7. Norma, 0. SctiUln, C. Tarpeja) or
(3) to the same regions of America and not found in Europe ( C. Calait),
or lastly (4) confined to the alpine districts of mountains rising in tem-
perate latitudes on either one or the other continent (Europe C AeUo ;
Eastern America C. temideti ; Western America C. €kri/jma). The
question then naturally arises, what relations of structure do the species
of these different localities and varying range of habitat bear to one
another? It has been asserted that species existing over a wide range

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of coantry sre more variable than those limited to a smaller area, and
some arguments have beeo based npoa this and umilar assertioas by
those who would maintain the derivative the<ny of the origin of species;
on this assumption, &nd in general, if holding the derivative view, we
would conustently maintain it, we ehonld expect to find (1) that C.
Jutla and C. Bore were the moat variable ; (2) C. Otw> following next
in that particular, with its transatlantic and cisatlantic memhere exhi-
biting among themselves some sli^t characters by which in some inde-
scribable way, but with coaHiderable certainty, the one could be sepa-
rated from the other; (3) that 0. semidea, restricted as it is so far as
we know to an extremely meagre patch of country, would show the least
variationof any, followed closely in that respect by C.Aello; and finally
(4) that there wonid be close agreement between C. ietnidea and some
Labrador — and probably purely Labrador — speoies, the relationship
being of a similar kind to that exhibited by C. AeUo to some North
European — and probably purely European — species. In point of feet
almost the exact opposite appears to be true. Moschler says of what
he calls C. Aho, that it varies more in dengn and coloring than any
other species of the genns, and therefore more than C. Julia or 6'. Bore.
How much more must this be true when we combine with it in one
species what he describes as C. Oeno; and yet in the species of nar-
rowest domain, and probably of as Hmit«d a geographical area as any
species of butterfly in the world, 6'. gemidea, we find a range of varia-
tion almost, if not altogether, as great as is discoverable in 0. Oeno in
its largest sense, as I have used it. We find no difference in the indi-
viduals of C. Oeno from one side of the Atlantic compared with those
on the other, any more than we do in C. Jutta and 0. Bore, though
sufficient attention has not yet been paid to this point. There is also
a close agreement between C. seiaiilea and a Labrador species, C. Oeno,
closer than that which exists between 0. Oeno and any other species
in Labrador; but C. Oe.no is not exclusively an American species, and
although the European alpine species, C. AeUo, is most allied to a purely
Enropean species, C. Noma* it is not so closely related to it as the
arctic Enropean species are among themselves. We thus see that the
relations of the alpine to the arctic species on the two continents are
nearly the reverse ; that while the American alpine species agrees very
closely with a species not purely Labrodorian, slighter affinities than
ordinary bind the European alpine species to a strictly North European
or to a purely Labrador one.

■ Though I am in considerable douht whether it has not more aCBaitiee with
C. Calaia, the purely Labrador species.

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It wonld leem, too, as tf the relatione of these inrcets to the sar-
TOanding world, the levers by meftos of which Derirktists sappose Nat-
nr&l SeleotioD to nioye the World of Life, were more eonstant than
nsaal in species of this genns, oonfiDed as it is (and as no other genus
of Dinrn&l Lepidoptera is) to alpine and arctic regions, and especially
if LioheDS are the food-plaot of all of them, as I beliere is die case
with 0. Ktnidea.

Botton Society of ITatural HitlOTg, Mag 5, 1865.

ov son nw btboies or pbxlaphidx.

BT EMIL BKENDBL, M. D.
{.QmimHtieaUd Jafy lOtt, ISAG.)

Entirely new fbrms of this interesting family of Coleoptera are daily
discovered, and it seems necessary to settle the question, at least with
some of them, in order not to be behind time.

By the kindness and liberal assistance of the heroes of American
Entomology, Dr. John L. LeConte of Philadelphia, and Henry Ulke of
Washington, D. G., I was enabled to acquaint myself with forms till
lately unknown, besides those I collected in different parts of the U. S.
Encouraged by so dutingnished Entomologists, I undertook to describe
the following forms, oommencing with the only genus of Europe till
now not known to be represented on this Continent.

Antennse distantee in fossa ante oculos insertte 11-articulatse.
Palpi mazillares ^^artioulati, artioulo primo filiform! seoundo ola-
▼ato, tertio globuloso, quarto magno securiformi.
Abdomen marginatum.
Thorace aubgloboaus, basi angustatus.
Tarsi monodactyli.

I. B. ■OBatai.-'FuBco-rufuB, pubeBcene anbtiliasime punctulatue, capita bifo-
veato, A-onta emarglnato, thorace globoBO, truncato, uaiforeato, elytris con-
reiis, abdomiDe breri marginaCo. Long 1.2 mill. metr.

Bythino macropalpi Europse simillinta. Fusco-rufus, brevissime pu-
bescens. Caput Iseve, vertice stigmatibus binis leviter impressis, fronte
snlcj transversali inconspicuo leviter impressa, ooulia paulo promintilis.
Antenuse breviosculee, in fovea snb frontis marginc insertse, pubescentes.
articuloprimosequenti majors, hociterum majore tertio, 3 — dtequalibue.
rotundatis, lOmo transverso obconico, ultimo maximu. influto, ovato.
Palpi maxillari minutee. articulo prime et seoundo filiforutbus, tertio

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globoeo miDnto, quarto magDo fere seouriformi. Thorax globoaiu ad
baain truocatoa Uevis, paroe pubesoeng, lona basali pnnoUtA et foreola
basali mediana ornatne. Elytra subtilimime inoonepicne punctulaU,
latitadine longiora, convexa, stria dorsali nulla, stria snturali Integra,
hmneria rotuodatia pendentibus. Abdomen mai^inatum pabesoena,
ineonspicna punctDlHtum. Tibite postion arctutn, taraia monodactylis.
Habitat Lodoviciaaam et Virg^niam.

1. B. aarlaatai.— Piceus pubeaceoe punct&tuB, capite carinato, foreis dnabuB
ante oeuloB leviter iQipreeais, aDtronum bdIco conjunatil ; fronte kcuminato;
thorace subgloboBa, foreii Biibba»>1ibue ttibun bqIco conjunctis. Antannifi II-
BrticaUtia, Long I.6B mill. metr.

Elongatos, piceua, pabescens. Caput pentagon«1e ad biuia tmnca-
tnm dense pnnctatum, medio carinatum, carina postice dilatata, utrin-
que late foTeatnm, foveia suloo antrorsntn angutato leviter impreBm
oonnezis, fronte acnmioato. Anlflante insertse in fovea sab tVontis
mnrgine, articnlis duobos primis magnia, longitndine 4 Bequentibna
aeqDantibua, articulo primo cylindriiio longigsimo, 2i>d'> incraaaato glo-
boso, 3. — 5. oblongia »qualibns minoribue, 6. — 8. teqoalibus globoais,
Quo 10">o que lato gradatim incraagittja tntaaTerBis, ultimo majore avato,
articulis ultimig tribos loHgitudiue duabns primia sqoalibna. Palpi
masillures articulo primo filiformi, 2ii<lo clavato tertio globow, quarto
aeourifurttii mugno. Thorax snbrotundos latitndine vix longior, lat«ri-
bne in medio rotundatim subaogutatus, tmncatus pnnctatoa, ad buin
trifoveatus, foveia suico angalatim coanexis, leviter impressia. Elytra
thorace fere duplo iatiora, antioe angsntata, conveza, punct&ta ad
apicem truncata pauIo declivia, atria dorsal! aat« medium deeinente,
stria sutaralo int«gra. Abdomen parce pnnctatum, pubescens, margi-
natum, eegmento primo majore. Pedes pnuctati, tibiie pone medium
arcuatis. Tarsi mooodactyli.

Specimen nnicnm a Henrico UIke in Pennsylvania defectum.
8KTAXIB, Le»elL.

AntenRSB basi modioe diabmtes, in fossula snbfrontis niargiue ineertte.

Palpi maxillarea 4-artioakti artioolo -tl* fusiform!.

Mentum cordatum baei aaguetittam.

Abdmnen marginatum articulo l"if nuyore.

Tarsi unguionlo aingulo.

3. B. laabra. — "igsr, pnnclAtuB, antennia pedibusqiie rufis, capita punctato
^-foTeato, thorace conflaente, forte punctate, trifoveato, etjtrJB nitidis punc-
tulatis, abdomine leavj pabeacenie. Long 1.33 mill. metr.

Stature B. propinqnse. Caput dense punotulatum, foveis duabus
ante ocnlos instructis, fovea altera in frontis margine impresea, anten-

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nis prufie ll-articnlatns. Thorax soaber Tel deDsiwime panctstns ad
basin foveu tribua inconaplcuie, fovea mediana miuori. Elytra aabti-
liasime dease puDOtnlata nltida, teaaiBBimo pube brevi piovisa, atria
iloraali pone medium abbreviata. Abdomen lieve, paroe et breviter
pubesoeDB.

Femina ant«n)iie brevioribus differt.

Habitat in Insula longa Novoboracenei.

i. B. Minvta.— Rafa, miDUtisaime punctuUta, Ata»e pabeeci
iusertionem autennarum imprcBBO, thomce unifoveato eljtrig
mine brevi. Long 1.1 mill. laetr.

Caput peatagonale, convexnm, fronte emai^gioato, Antennse eub
iTDDtis margins lateral! Id fossuk inaertse, artioolie duobua primie ob-
longis majoribus 3 — 8 minatis sequalibus monilifonnibuB, 9°" lOmo que
grada^m majoribus, ultimo ovato, longitndiue penultimia dnobuB seqaa*
libiu. Palpi masUIares artioulo tertio globooo, 4to fusiformi. Thorax
hirtua, rotundatua, convexus, truncatuB, punctulatns, in basis medio
foTea minnta instructus. Elytra latitndine vix longiora, pnbeaoens,
inmibile tenuiter punotulata, stria dorsali brevissima ant« partem
quarlam abbreviata. Abdomea densiuB pabeeceDS, segmento primo
majore, bistriato, striis brevissimis.

Differentia sexuum me evadit

Habitat in Ludoviciana et ffovo Eboraco.

5. S. eaTieomli. — Klongato, rufa, thoroce punctulato, foveiB tribua interme-
dia minore; elytriB sabtiliter puncCulatis, antonnaruDi arttculo ultimo triaa-
gulari, emarginato. Long 2 mill, inetr.

Bryasi Innigerie simitlima, antennarum astern artioulis ulUmis tribus
essentialiter difiert. Antennarmn articnlo primo obconico, 2. — 4. pre-
cedent gradatim miaore, 5— S subsequali, 9i>o majore, transverse ob-
conico, 10°>» prsBcedend daplo tongiore emarginato, fere reniformi.
ultimo maximo triangulari, emarginato, non dissimili artioQlo ultimn
palporum Tmeaiphori.

Speoimina mascuIiDa duo in Virginia dedecta a Clar. Henrico Tllke.

DEOASTHBOV.
AnteDDsedistant«s,10-artioulatffiinfossulasnbfronti8ma]^aeiaBertat.
Palpi maxillares 4-articnlatse, articnlo i^ fusiformi.
Mentum basi angustatum.
Thorax unifoveatns vel laevis.
Abdomen marginatum, articnlo primo majore.
Femora mediana maris pins vel minus armat».
Tarsi monodactyli.
Genus novum separatam a genere " Brjaxia."

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e. D.al

BTj/arii abtutrmU, Lea.
Mas femoriboa intermediis supra tuberoaitate obsoleta provisa differ) .

T. D. longnlnm.

Bryaxii lotufola, Lee-
Mae femoribus intermediis supra exciaiB, spina brevi fonuantibus
difiert.

8. D. tmnimti-

BryazU formieeH, Lee.
Mas femoribus intermediis, supra in medio spina valida provisa
difiert.

9. D. Minutmn. — Bubro tostaoea, elongata impunctuta, pabeleens, capite
sonlpb), thorace aubglaboso, trunoalo, levi, eljtrii paulo oonTezia, abdommis
■egmento prirao cBriaa transversa buali. Long l.SO mill. metr.

Statun eloDgata Batriso aimilis, mtnoB convexa. Caput quadratum
angnlis rotundal^, fronte sulco antrorsnm semiciroulari, leviter emar-
ginato, vertioe in medio tuberoulo transverse oblongo, spinoso, occipite
forte subito elevate, elevatioue antice profdode emarginata, in cornna
dua prodncta. Antennte pilosse lO-articulatse, capitis thoracisque lon-
^tndine, articulo primo et secundo majore fere squali, <{t:io minore
oblongo, 4to majore lou^tudine primo eaquali, 4 sequeatibue teqaalibuH
minimis, globnlosis, nono traneverso majore, ultimo maximo, ovato,
aouminato. Palpi minimi artioulo secundo cylindrico, S^io globoso,
4'<' ovato acnminato. Thorax aubglobosus, politus, paroe pubesoens,
impunctatUB, basi suloo transverse inoonapicao. Elytra parce pnbes-
oentia, stria dorsali ^te medium abbreviata. Abdomen pubesoens,
segmento primo ad basin carina trutsversa utrinqne abbreviata in-
Btruoto. Pedes pnbesoentes, monodactyli.

Femina capitis sculptnra ol>soleta antenais que simplioibus difiert
Habitat in IHinois et Pennsylvania. Specimen nnicum mascullnum
in oolleotione mea alterum femiainnm in Coll. Dom Henrici Ulke.

10. D. iti^mMlua. — Castanenm dense breviter pubesceuB pnuctatum, capite
pnnctato, planiuacalo, stigmatibus minutis qaatuor semictrculariter dinposUis,
tborace rotnndsto, unifoveaUi, e1;tris convexiueaulis, punctatis. Long l.TU
mill. metr.

StatuTs elongata, dense breviter pubesceos, pnnctatnm. Caput dense
pnnetatnm, plano-convexiusculum, tronte ad margiaem ant«riorem fo-
veis minntJB qnatuor semicircularlter dUpositis. Antennae arrieulo
1 — 8 moniliformibua senaim deminutivis 9n<i subgloboso majore, Itjmo
maximo ovato. Thorax lateribua rotundatia, anbtiliaaime punctatus, id
basi medio untfoveatus, pubescena. Elytra punctata breTiseime pubes-

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oene, striis doraaliboB fere int^ris. Abdomen segmento primo atrini|uc

jnxU margiDam imprasso, bistriato.

Mas femoriboB niediaaia apice anguste profundeque exciso,
Femina femoribos integris, antennarum articulie nltioiia niinoribiis

differt.

Habitat Novnm Eboracnm.

II. S. •ziMtam.^PicsuDi politum irapuDctatum, paree piloaum ; opiM blfo-

ve&to, Bulcato ; thorace obcordaki, uuifoveato, eljtria rubropiceU, abdamitip
polito, segmento primo bistriato. Long 1.70 mill. metr.

Statnra Brjazis snbtilis, impuDctatum poHtum. (]aput trapezuideuni
miDnta trifoveatum, fovea froaUli miDUtisaima cum alteris sulco oopil-
lare obsoleto ooDoexB. Thorax obcordutiu, truooatus, politus parce
pllosoe ad basin fiivea panctiformi. Elytra poUta convexa, stria dur-
stli leviter impressa, ad spicem obsoleta, ad basin dilutata, huoieris
pendentibiu. Abdomen pilosum, politum impunctatum. segmento primo
tenaiseime bistriato, atriis fere integris. Anteonse articalo prinio Cyltn-
diico, articulia sequentibos subaequalibua seDsitn demiDutipia, artuculiK
ultimis tribuB gradatim majoribus, ultima maximo ovali. Femora diln-
tat». Tibiee pauto arcuaUe.

Mas femoribuB intermediia a medio excisis, spina valida.

Femina femoribus int«gris.

Preecedenti simitis, soalptura tamen polita, imptinctata, pube lonp:!)
erecta et femoribus maris a medio exciaia aine difficuttate distingnendus.

Habitat Novum Eboracnm et Pennsylvaniara.

Caput piano convexum tenue ioconapicue pnnotulatum dense pilosum.
Antenuffi oapite thoraceqne longiorea, dense pubeacent«8, artionlie 3 — 5
saqnaliboB, 6to globuloso pauto majore septimo. 7 — d"" gradatim majo-
ribus, lOno maximo ovali. Thorax Totundatua nnifoveatas, pito^iu^.
Elytra stria dorsali pauIo obliqoa, postice obsoleta, inconepiono punc-
tnlata. Abdomen segmento primo majore, tenuiter bistriato, impnnc-
tatum. Mas ignotus.

SpeoieBum adhno det«ctarum maxima.

Speoimen Qnionm delictum in Pennsylvania a Dom. LeConte.

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BT ACQ. B. CIROTE,

CarAtoT of Enlamolagjr, BnlBdo Sooiety Natnntl SelenoN, tta.

the lepidopterous iosecte which form the subject matter of the pre-
sent Notice, are contaiDed in the CollectioD of the Entomologioal Society
of Philadelphia, and were obtained by porcbase, together with other
very lat^ eatomolc^cal material, from Prof. Poey of Havana, Cuba,
through the liberality of the late esteemed scieDdst Dr. Thomas B.
WilsoQ, and intended by the latter for the aoiendfic usea of the
Society.

My uncere thanks are given to Mr. Stephen Calverley, for bibliog-
noBtic information, which I have used in wiiting the present Notice,
I am also grateful to my friend Ooleman T. Robinson, Esq., for mate-
rial aid received, while, with accustomed kindness, Mr. EzraT. Cresson,
the well-known Entomologist, has lent me his very acceptable as-

Sinoa my present comprehension of the limit of the family Sphin-
gida accords with that given at sufficient length by Br. Brackenridge
Clemens in an able treatise, entitled " Synopsis of North Amerioan
Spbingidse," published in the Journal of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, pp. 97 to 189, for 1859, I do not add, where
I oonld only encumber, to a definition the perspicacity of which I
mnoh admire. I present but a few remarks, drawn partly from the -
peculiar locality of the insects that I am about to notice, for conside-
ration.

As understood in the treatise I have above alluded to, this family
constitutes a perfect unity, which it loses, when, under any artificial
term, we include either the jEgeriidm {Sesi0se) or the Zi/i/eenidx,
families in wbioh analogical resemblances — with the one under present
Oonsiderati(^, have been mistaken for structural affinities.*

In examining the representatives of the family Sphinyidie from the
Weet India Islands, we are etntok vrith the preponderance of those
genera whioh resemble the Koctuidee; in contrast with the rspresen-

* " Annlherangen wie Z. B. die der Seaioideen (^gerlidie) uad Zygeeueii

(ZjgniiidM) an die Bphinginen (Bphingidn) und dgl- balte ioh gera-

dsiD nir unriohtig." H-B. Lepidop. Eiot. nov. a. u. cog. p. AS.

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tadree of the family &om the more northern parts of the Korth Ameri-
oan Continent where the genera allied to the Bombyoidae are more
largely prevalent As we progress towards the tropios, the Sphingida,
jEgeriidm, Zygmnidx and Noetuidee, afford the preponderant lepidop-
terons expression, while the extensive family of Bombyeidse loeea iu
oharaoter, developed nnder a eolder climate, and becomes a more nnim-
portant feature in the entomological taona of the Torrid Zones.

I have consulted in the preparation of titis notice, in addition to the
illostrative works of the earlier anthors, whose indifferent fignres serve
but too frequently to di^^ise specific names, the following classifioa-
tory works, whioh I now briefly refer to.

In 1816 Httbner pnblisbed bis " Terzeiohaiss," * a work which has
received most ungenerous and defective criticism, "f" since, for the age
in which he wrote, Htibner was greatly advanced in his conception of
generic values, J and his critics have occupied themselves but too fre-
quently in creating generic synonyms at his expense, and in some in-
tances with less feli<nty of limitation.

Htibner used the external aooessories of a genus, without giving the
stmctDial form itself, to limit his generic separations. He was satisfied
to record the superficial dissonaooe of distinctive structural form, with-
out asoerUinIng the fundamental divergence that caused that form to
vary in its entiety of physical expression. Coloration was not received
by him clearly as an idea independent of the Pattern of Ornamenta-
tion; It Is this latter which more distinctly goes hand in hand with
generic structure In Zoiiit^ ; the first Is an independent specific value,
or, in an extended sense, a family characteristic.

Less fortunate, perhaps, than in the Bombyoidse, Hiibner has arranged
much discordant material under his genera in the present family, and
many of his generic terms are consequently useless. This has probably .
arisen from his being antoptioally unacquainted with very many of the
species he has endeavored to arrange systematically, while the figures
he was In consequence obliged to rely on, frequently allowed from their

■ VerzeichnisB bekonnter Schmetterlinge, verTasBt von Jacob Habner, Augs-
burg, isie.

t For insbtace; "J£i da multiplier cbb examplaa, psrce que, je le rSpSte,
on parait Touloir aujourd'hui 4rigerle Vtnaduuu en autoritj, et j'avaia besoin
d'indeqner pontqnoi j« le eoaaidire, avea mon oolaborateur, oomme una mnvre
nona venue, et pourquoi, js ne me suis point cm oblig^ plus que lia, d'employer
leg noms g^D^riques, aouveat rudes ou burleaqnei, de oet ouvrage mart n J."
Oaeu^ Koct 1, p. Izziv.

\ Packard, Notai on the Family Zygnnldie. "Sroe. Eaaes Ins. (ISSt.)

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mdenesa s wide latitnde of interpretation. I need no exease for using
ha generic teim Eritai^, nnder which he has arranged perfectly
homogenooB material ; the elimination of the very natural genera
Ambulyx and Phtlampelvt had escaped his penetratdan.

In 1839 Dr. Harris pnblished his " Catalogue of North American
Sphinges."* In this the author has erected the genera Phiiampeliu
and Oeratomia. The systeraatio generic anangement is I believe de-
fective, while nuder the t«rm " Sphinges," distinct families are massed
tc^ether, in acoordance with an idea which originated with Linnnns,
although these are really destitute of structural affinities, as I have
already stated.

In 1856 Hr. Walker revised this Family in the " Catalogue of Lepi-
doptera Heterocera," published by the British Museum. Still retain-
ing the ^geriidee as part of a Dirision whieh cannot rank as a Family,
the Sphingidx Kte introdooed in conjunction with foreign elements,
and not received as a Family equivalent to the Zygsaxidse, Bomin/cidm,
or other natnral Bssooiatians of genera as understood by Latreille, and
to which the latter gave the proper significance of a Family name.

The arrangement of the genera, and the description and identification
of the species, appear to me generally felicitous and satisfactory; the
style in which the subject is treated by Mr. Walker, the industry
shown in the compilation of the synonymy and the conscientiousness
displayed in investigsting questions of priority are worthy of acknow-
ledgement, while the evident endeavor to insist on generic values, con-
trasts favorably with the looseness in generic reference displayed by
many writers on the Lepidoptera.

From my material I have been able to differ from Mr. Walker, as
will be seen by a reference to the synonymy I have adopted, as to cer-
tain of bis specific determinations.

In the same year (1856) in which that Part of the British Museum
Lists which contains the Sphiuf^dss was issued, Prof. Bnrmeisterf
published a quarto pamphlet on the Sphingidsa of Brazil.

In this the genera Protoparoe and Dilophonota are erected, neither
of which I have adopted, for the reasons that the latter is a generic
term erected at the expense of Erinnyii, Hiibner, while the former

* Descriptive Catalogue of the Korth American Ineecta belonging to the Lin-
nsean genns Sphinx, in the Cabinet of Thaddeus WiUiam HbttIb, M. D., Libra-
rian of Harvard UnlTereitj. Amerioan Jonrnal of Bcienoe and Arta, No. I,
Vol. SB.

t BjstamBtiBohe Ueberaicht der Bphingidie Braeiliens, von Profeeaor Bar-
meisler. Halle, ISSfl.

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oomee into oontaot irith Maero*3a, Boisd. KpaA Walker, fnaod »t the
same time, and I have given in the syaonymy thton^oat the prefe-
rence to Mr. Walker. Prof. BnrmeiBter'a geoeni seem feebly ohuiui-
terized, prolnbl; from vant of extended material and needftil diaseo-
tional Stady, while his reference of Fachglia fietu, to DeUephila, of
Ohi^ocampa terta to PhUam^ehtt, affords tittle pretMioe fbr orerlook-
ing the priority of Htlbner, on the score of defeotive generic apprecia-
tion. The definition of the gentu Proloparee ia, I think, incomplete,
while it is evidently Intended as a qmonym of Maerotila Boisd. Based
on Sphinx ruttica Cramer, the Professor enumerates ander it S.
Bronte* Drury, 8. ByUeat Drury, S. pUbeia Fab., 8. tordtda Harris,
and S. etmi/erarwm A. & 8., a singular material to select, when we see
that nnder 8phinx the Professor leaves S. Animus Dniry, 8. Fhrettan
Cram., S- eitigviaia Fab. and S. Carolina L.

An affinity with AcKerontia is claimed for the genus so oonstitnted,
which I am at a loss to peraeire, and am decidedly of opinion does not
exist.

I hare already alluded above to the " Synopsis of North Amerioaa
Spfaingidse" of Dr. Brackenridge Clemens. The arrangement of the
genera in this work I have mainly followed in the present Notice, and
since the locality of the species I am considering is restricted, I have
had this further reason for abstaining iVom making any innovation.
The sequence of the genera in the " Synopsis" ia fi)anded on that of
Mr. Walker in the Cat. B. Mas., and is mainly that of Htiboer, com-
mencing with 8e»ia, Macroglotmm, and genera showing analogies with
the ..Hgeritdse. I have differed from the specific determinations of Dr.
Clemens in certain cases, — for instance in the genus Pkiiamptlut, where
I believe that P. vilit and F.juisieuee are perfectly distinct and valid
species and that the specimens described by Dr. Clemens under P. vifin
belong to P.junieum, and vice versa, etc. But, very generally. Dr. Cle-
mens has taken the bibliography of the species from Mr. Walker, so
that where I have differed from the-latter I have equally differed from
our American lepldopterist.

Respecting the larvae of the American Sphingidse much remains to
be made known ; the paucity of reliable figures of these is particularly
notioeable. I have observed that the larvie of Tkyrem abbotii Swains..
and certain species belonging to the genus PkUampelut Harris, possess
a tint of brown or green indifferently at matnrity as the grounil color,
and have noticed the same appropriation of these truly cosmical tints
in the larva of the Bombyoid genus Eaclen Hiibner. In studying the

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relations which the Bub-femtly OeratoeampadK (to whieh the genera
Oithertma Httbn. and Eaelet BUha. bdong) bears to && Sphingid .
geiun Cbrafomut Harris, and to tlie S^hiagidts generally, aa in similar
inatuicea, we divest omaelres of the idea that we have to do with a ao-
called "oonneotiag Unk" between two distioot Families, and ^ree,
that, as i> the oaae in Zoiilogio^ Orden, Anal^oos [Types in^ exist
throngh whtuh leptdoptoroos Families express in their eomponent
generic gronpe a certain etmformity with Uie leading eharaetera of a
distinct family, wlule retMning the essential form proper to their own,
and without losing true affinity in producing foretgn anal<^. It is
evident that it is the larva of Ceratomia which mimics the Ckratocam-
padm, aad not vice versa, slnoa the smooUi larval form of the Sphin-
^dse borrows a character which is osnally developed in the Bomby*
cidie, thoi^li peculiarly exaggerated in the sub-family which contains
Anitota, Adeiocephala, Uithertmia and Eaclet.*

Misled by an tnali^ of habit with the Hnmming Birds, the authors
of the "Wiener yeTZeichniss"'f' have classed the Sphingtdn as the
highest fuuily of the Lepidoptora, aad have eonaidered that in this
analogy a sufficient value is demonstrated to allow of their juztsr-posi-
tion with the Aves.^ An inspection of th^r illnstratod Frontispieces, on
which the feedii^ Vertebrate and Artioolato are depicted side bj aide,
teaches in a striking manner the value of the philosophical distanolions
to be drawn between, and the ideas involved by, the terms "Analogy"
and "Affinity."

I ^ve here a few remarks and a generic desoription drawn ^om osr>
tain members of this Family fbnnd within tJie limits of the United
States and Canada.

• I have etated (Proc Eat. Boe. Phllad., p. 310, IStS) that tlie larva of Cfeni-
tomia simulates that of (XAenniai ia a greater degree, howerei, it slmDlates
thatorfoc^, btlOQging to ths ume lab-family, in th« poaitioa, Bliap« and
conBistoQcy of the donal hornlike tiiberdea on the anterior eegmenta. Tbe
imago of Eaclet, hovrevet, ii nuah leii Bphini-like than that of CiVieronia, I
have ^ken the larva of EaeU» imptrialis on ths "gum," Xiig^idamhar tfyra-
eijtna, "beeoh," Fagttt femtginea, and " hor»»-che»tnut," ^Imtiiu \ippoeatta-

t dar Bahmetterlinge det Wienergegend."

X uad in dieser Ordnnng die Qattung der Honigsauger (Trochili) die

letiCe Bteben kOnnte, wie ungeiwungen (1) vQrden eich unsere AbendBchmet-
tarlinga daranschlieBsen. W. V. p. )9.

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LEPI8K8IA, nor. gen.

A genoB hitherto confonnded with Macrogionum, bat more nearly
allied to Sevia, fnxa wfaiofa it is however quite distiaot. The former
genuB, of whiofa M. itellatamm is typical, is not refffesented in North
Amerioa.

Head smaller and more obtose than in Macroglotiwn, loosely scaled ;
antennae afaorter, more prismatic. In Setia the head is mora rounded,
and lT«er from the thorax, more advanced ; the antennsa are mnoh
loiter and more robust ; vertex namnver ; the clypens is shorter, epi-
cranium broader, giving the head a more oonioal appearanoe. In the
present genus the eyee are smaller oompared with Seiia, while the
wider vertex gives them a lower, more sunken position. In this respect
the genus approaohes Mncroglattwn, in which latter the flattened head,
more prominent palpi and lai^er eyes, wbieh are also somewhat differ-
ently placed, are distinguishing characters from Lepitaia.

The anterior wings are relatively mnoh longer, narrower, externa!
margin m'ore oblique than in Macfoglotmtm. The discal cell is longer
and more constricted j median nervure depressed; all
^ the nervules shorter. The costa is medially depressed
and markedly contrasts with the conformation of both
ia and Macroglo»mm in this respect ; the internal

□atural Btie. nerrnre is less bent than in Setia. The sub-ooetal ner-
vure is curved upward beyond the discal cell ; apex more produced
than in either of the genera I hare oompared it with. The extern^
mar^n is slightly excavate below the second median nervole, is more
irregular and oblique, and less rounded. The posterior wings are small;
external maigin very straight, not rounded, apices prodnoed. Costal
and first sub-costal uervureB direr^ng, leaving the interspace on exter-
nal mai^n wider than usual. Biecal cell large. First, second and
third median nervules less propinquitous than in MacToghnium, more
onrved ; internal nervure straighter. The nervulatloD has undergone
important modifications, while the pterogostic characters in their en-
tiety are very diBtinotire, and, without any sadden change, ahcur the
pontion of this genua as intermediate between Setia and Maertylm-
gum, while considerably modified from either.

The abdomen is more smoothly scaled and less obtusely terminated
than in Setia; anal segments contracting more suddenly than in
Macroglotsum.

The ornamentation is peonliar. Head and thorax are clothed above
with similarly colored and disposed scales to those which are so charac-

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temtio ID Sena, vhile the iringB «re not limpid, and ore without
vib^eooB spots u in Macrogloumn. The more nniooloroiu Abdomen
wautB the " furry" appeaianoe of Sena, while the anal htin are aome-
what similaily arranged aa in that genus, not exuberated into the
well-formed anal toil of Maeroglomm.

The single speoies, described by Mr. Walker, has beeo recently
taken in Canada, and specimens are now oontained in the OoUeottou
of Hie Entomologies Society.

LkPISSSIA rLAVOPASCIATA.

Maanghmafiamifcueiata, Bunihra, Walk, a B. H. S, p. 8T. (ISSS.)
3Iaerogl«mafltiioafa»eiala, Clemens, Sjn. IT. A. Sph. ISl. (18SS.)

Abore, the thorax and head are clothed with pale yellowish sericeous
erect hair, mingled with blookish scales. Laterally the palpi, and die
orbits of the eyes are deep blaok. Abdomen black, with aericcous
hairs above on basal segment. Anal tnft black, with lateral sericeous
hairs. The anterior wings are blackish with obsolete ornamentation ;
beneath, at base, covered with bright fulvona scales. Foeterior wings
black with a broad central bright fdlvons lasoia, which contracts, trian-
gularly, towards internal nuu^n. Legs black. Bxp. % , 1.60 inch.
Length of body .80 inch.

Sahitat.—GmMiA. Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

The pecoliar aerioeons thoraoio squammatton of Setia, and which is
shared by Lepwena, together with the vitreons wings of the former,
have been made use of ininstitnting analogical oomparisona witli the
hymenopterons genua Bomibm.

Ckuatomia kkfintinds, Clemens.

Bciadnval's ^ure, 8p. den. Plate 15, and which he calls errone-
ously SpKmx bronlei, reflsrs to this species and should be quoted in
the synonymy. Dr. Clemens was the first to deeoribe and name the
present species which he regarded as congenerical with Oeratomta
guadricomit Harris. Under "Sphinx Bnmtes" I have more fully
expressed my comprehendon of the synonymy of Drury's species,
while a misunderstanding has resulted mainly from Boiaduval's error
and the silence of Dr. Clemens aa to the figure in the Speoiea Qen-
toal.

It is somewhat extraordinary, and merely adds to the eonfusion, that
Dr. Herrich-Schnffer, Corr. Blatt, p. 149 (1863,) in speaking of the
speoea which rouat be Sphinx brontet, mihi, sUtee that B<HadnTal's

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figure leaves no doabt of the spwries intoided. No remarks are nuwle
on tbe itiiking disorepMio; in the siie of the head and prothoraeic
parte which at once separate Boisdaval's figure and oar oonnnon ape-
eies, from the Gnban speoiea. I need not state here that the omameii-
tation of the two apeoies is, with a oert«in resemblance, qtute disttDOt,
while I can in no wiae aoooont for the remarks of Dr. Herrioh-Schseffer,
except npou the hypothesis that no rif^d comparison has been insti-
tuted by the author between his specimens and Boisdnval's figure, for
I cannot suppose that Oeralomva repentinut ooours in Cuba, or has
been sent him by Dr. Qundlach.

With T^ard to the position of onr species I faave elsewWe noted
that it seemed to me ill-placed in the same genus with Cerafomia
quadricomit, and that, with other whitish cinereous, roi^h-haired spe-
cies of Sphitix, it seemed to form a passage to Ckratomia, in which
S. repenlinui would constitute the lowest link.

DxiLEFHiLA cHAHANERn, Harris.

The larva of this species is stated by Harris to differ troai that cf
the Baropean D. Galii, with which the American species is regarded
as identical by Mr. Walker and Dr. Glemens. I find the fcllcwiug
differences in the images, whioh I am satisfied are specifically distinct.
In our species the central fascia on anterior wings is of a warmer
shade, not ezoavated inwardly at base, and not continued so near the apex
as in D. Galii; the apices show a very distinct black streak, absent in
the European speoiee. The central iaeoia of the inferior wings is more
suffused with rose-color. The basal abdominal segment is less black
laterally in D. chammnerii, while I notice a few minor differences which
are perliaps not constant, as arc those I have cited. The fact that
Smerinthut Oerigii Kirby, is certainly distinct from Smerinthui gemi-
nattts Say, an opinion I have entertained since studying Kirby's de-
scription and figure, has been recently ascertained by the discovery of
specimens, as I am informed by Mr. 8, Calverley, and it may be argued
from this that Eirby's GeU^kila interoMdia, which appears to differ
too much to be referred to Huris' species, may be ultimately disoov-
ered aa a distinct species.

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ASUORW, HQbner.
AallopMlltu.

Sphinx Titan Cramer, II. Fl. 141, fig. F. (ITie.)
AeUopoa TUaa HUbner, Vert Schm, HOT, p. 181,. (181S.)
Maerogtaa*«m atmulotwa Sftaiaa, Zool. Ill pL ISI. (1823.)
Jtaeroglotta Tilim Burm., Bytt. Yen. Sph. Bcm. p. IT. (IS6&.>
Moenglotta Titan R-S., Corr. Bl&U. p. 6t. (1S6&.)

Dull blaofciali, with a slight olivaceous tinge ; difloal ^ot black, enb-
obaolete. A median, stndght, aemi-tranipareat, wbitxBh band, eloaely
followed b; a secoad much reduced. A somewhat arcnated, similarly
oolored band, formed of a double aeries of semi-vitreoas Innolated spots,
is continued from costa to second median nervnle, beyond which it is
ol»olate, but very distinctly continued on the under snr&oe,— the Innn-
lated spots inoreasiog in sin to the interspace above internal margin.
Terminal space with a paler, somewhat pnrpltsb reflection. Under aur-
&oe dark-brownish ; the whitish markings of the upper surface dis-
tinctly reproduced.

Poeterior wings blackish, paler at base, shaded with yellowish along
eosta, — medially the yellow hwrs, especially in the female, extend acroad
the costal half of the wing forming an obsolete band. Beneath brown,
with two median, parallel, contiguous, distinot, darker shade bands,
largely shaded with white at base and along internal mai^in.

Head, and thoracic region above, dull-brownish with a slight olivace-
ous tinge. Abdomen olivaceous with the third abdominal segment
whileabove; fourthsegment with a large, dark brownish, lateral shade, .
which on fifth is much reduced, but obtains on the sixth entirely
across the segment above. Anal haira brown, olivaceous centrally.

Beneath, the palpi are whitish ; the thoracic region and legs clothed
with olivaceous whitish hair. A series of small white lateral dote at
the lower margin of abdominal segments; lateral fringes interrupted
with white. Two specimens, % 9 . Exp. % and 9 2.oQ inch. Length
of body 1.40 inch.

ffntite/.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soo. Philad.

Xumber 121 Foe^'t J^SS. Catalogue.

Since the present species has been confounded with the following
by Mr. Walker and Dr. Clemens, I omit the citation of the works of
these writers in the synonymy of both speciea. Under the descriptive
phrase, " Yar. aidomine nint foKw. alba.'' Prof. Btirmeister places
AeUopot Fada» Hiibner, (Sphinx Fadus Cram. 61, C.) as identical with
the present species. I have not seen the species from Surinam any
more than the Professor, but, judging fr^m Cramer's figure, I should
certainly consider it to be a distinct species.

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Aellopoi iMitaltu.

^hinx Tanialtu Linn. Syet Sti. 803, IS. (ITSS.)

Sphinx amata, Drury, 1, t7, pi. it, t. 5. (1770.)

Sphija Ihntaliu Cram. Exot. 1, lOT, pi. 08, &g. F. (ITTS.)

Spftini Hinfoiu* Fttbr. Bat Syst III, 3T9, 1. (17B3,)

^tnzr TanlalTU Fabr. Sp. Ins. II, 153, 1. (1781.)

Aellopot tanbtlvt HDbn., Exot 8«hm. (leOB— IStG.)

MaerogloMa T^ntahu Burnt. Sph. Brai. p. 17. (1850.)

i6icroglo»aa Tanlalua H-8. Corr. Bl. p. £S. [I86i.)
Much BDialler than the preceding, whioli it resembles. On anterior
wings the mediaa white band is obsolete, and the sabtermioal arcu-
ated baud of whitish semi-transparent spots is reduced to two or three
unequal irregular spot^ towards the middle of the wing. Beneath, the
median band is entirely wanting, while the siibtermiual spots are as
on upper surface. The yellowish scales on upper surtace of the poste-
rior wings in A. Titan are absent, while the oosta shows a paler, some-
what whitash, shade. The abdomen is paler and the brown terminal
segpientary bands are brighter and more reddbh thau In A. Titan,
from which it appears to me perieotly specifically distinct. Two speci-
mens, % and 9 . Exp. % . 2 1-80 inch. Length of body % . ? 1.00 inch.
Habitat. — Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. See. Philad.
Numher 125 Poey's MSS. Catalogue.

Aellopos Sistphds (Macroj/losaa Si»ifphia Burm.) from Rio Ja-
neiro, belongs to this genns, which is distinct from the European genua
Macrogloisum .*

EUPTSBHOaiOSSra, nov. gen.
From MacroglotHum, with which it has been hitherto oonfonnded,
the present genus differs by the larger eyes which are more globose
and placed somewhat differently, extending above nearer the antennal
insertion. The epicranium is more elevated, reminding us of Eni/o.
from which the present genus is otherwise sufficiently distinct. The
anteuufe are slender, not prismatic, and terminate in a refiection which
is very different from the acute booklet of Maerogloggum. The caputal
squammatJon is dense, rising to a central longitudinal darker Oolored
ridge, recalling Hemeroplaiiei. The flattened head of Macrogloiwwm
and Aellopoi has undergone a change preparing us for the more coni-
cal and obtuse bead of Enyo and Perigonia. The thorax is more

■I find that theoraithologiaal resemblaaoes of the European MaCToglowtm,
gtellaianttn have been ezpreeseil by different vulgar names. Our species of
Aellopat, bear a certain general resemblaiii^Q to Proeeliaria pdagica. 8o our
"yellow bird" Carduelu trUtU, Bade its miniature and voiceless echo in the
yellow Gollae.

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ronndedly elevated uid is stouter, whtl« the prothorado pieces are
aairower. The abdomen U broader and shorter, furnished with
short, even, separated, lateral hair tufte, closer and more sqo&rely
out. The anterior wings are stronger, broader and lai^r; internal
margin straigbter; external margin proportionally longer, lesa evenly
rounded, more escavate before internal angle and more produced me-
^^^^^^dially. The costa at apex is more depressed. The
^^^^^^^ aeoond median nervule is equidistant from the first
^^^^^^X and third at external margin, whereas in Macrogloi-
sv"**"^'^?'"* "^ *""* '' " ^^^ nearer the third than the first, leav-
ii&^^ »ie. ing the interspace between the first and second me-

dian nervules inach wider than the rest

The posterior wings are relatively much larger, external mai^n
straighter, hardly excavated before anal angle.

The ornamentation differs, and is sui generis. The primariee are
complexedly mottled and banded; the secondaries crossed by a narrow
yellow band, neatly defined, very different from the ornamentation of
the posterior wings in Aelliypoi and Macroglossum ; the abdomen is
ornamented with neatly-defined maculations.

BnpTTTliaKloHnm Bagra.

Maerogloimm Sagra Toej, Cent, Lepid. Decade 2. (1S32.)
Maerogtossa •' Walker, C. B. M. Part VIII, p. 89. (18SB.|
" " ClBmenfl, Byn. N. A. Sph. p. 182. (1859.)

A single specimen in indifferent condition. I express the hope that
the Society will be able to obtain better material of this handsome
species described by Prof. Poey in 1832 (1837 Clem.) and dedicated
by him to M. Ramon de la Sagra. Eopyrrhoglobsum Ceculus
( Sphinx Ceciilus Cramer, PI. 146, fig, G) from Surinam, is congenerical
with the present species, while apparently sufficiently distinct specifi-
cally, to prevent its being confounded with E. goffra. Dr. Clemens
seems to have been acquainted with both species. Prof Poey's figure
appears to me, indeed with all the Plates in the " Centurie de L£pidop-
t&«8," to be most excellent in every respect. The position of this genus
may undergo some slight change when a more comprehensive study of
this &mily, embracing its representatives from difierent Zoological Pro-
vinces, is undertaken. The condition of the specimen has prevented
a thorough examination of the posterior wings.

fl^6i(at.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad,

Jfumber 543 Pofy'g JUSS. CatcUogue.

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mo, Httbscr.
Mbjd Ingnbrl*.

Sphinx Ivffvbrit, tilnn., M&nt. 1137.

" " Dniry, I, 81. PI. »8, flf. I. (ITTO.)

" •• Fabr., Sp. Ins. II, 140, 4. (1T8L)

^Mnx t^ata. Cram., Pap. Exot p. 59. PI. lib, E. (ITSl)

« 2i^ufrrit Fabr., Uant. Ins. II, SI, 4. (1787.)

" " Fabr., Ent Byit. Ill, 1, 358, B. (179!.)

" " Abbot A Smith, In*. Qoofg. I, pi. 69- (ITW.)
Di^ fA^ou Hnbner, Yen. 0<!hili. p. 181, No. UK. (IBIS.)
Xnito btgubri* HQboer, Znt*. S, !SS, fig. fi9&, «. (1835.)
T^^raia Ivgviris HarriB, Cat. IT. Am. 8ph. p. 30. (18311.)
Enyo Iwpibria, Walk., C. B. M. Part VIII, p. 113. (I8SS.)
PItrogon lugvbrU Burm., Sph. BrM. p. IB. (18S9.)
En^ Itupibria Gtem., Sjn. N. Am. Sphing. p. 134. (18M.)
Etyo Ivffubris H-B., Corr. Blatt, p. 57. (1S«5.)

Under " Var j-." Walkei has perlutps included Bpeoimens of £!a^
danum.

This species differs from the following by the stronger, posteriorly
better-defined, blackish terminal shade : by the absence of a darker
shade on the second basal segment abore, by the non-ezcavation of the
apical interspace on external margin, and by its generally laiger and
stouter size. Two specimens tandj. Expt^and? 2.50 inch. Length
of body % , 1.40, ? 1.30 inch.

ffabitat.—CnU, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Nwnber 541 Pbe^t MSS. Cataios»ie.

Bnyo Cunertu.

^hinx Chmertut Oram., Exot. Ill, SS, PL SSS, flg, A. (1T82.)
Snyo Cantrtui Habn., Vers. Behm. p. 131, No. 1410. (1816^)
Enyo OoneriM Walk., C. B. M. P^rt YIII, p. 114. (18511.)
Pterogon Oamertaa Biimi., Sph. Brai. p. 16.
Bnyo Oamerlua H-S., Oorr. Blatt. p. 57. (1805.)
The specimens correspond, as well as osnally the case, with Cra-
mer's figure. Since I do not see any difference in the sqnammation of
the " legs" between this and the foregoing species, I do not quote Dr.
Clemens' description here. The color is generally more brownish thno
that of E. Ixiffvhrii, the apical interspace is excavated, the semi-luni-
form paler shaHe which extends from apex to second median nervnle
is larger; the oblique median evep line is followed by a broad darker
diffuse shade continued very nearly to internal mai^n, beyond this the
first of the tremulous transverse lines is somewhat more projected su-
periorly; the external margin is less abruptly excavate below the sub-
coslo post-apical nervule. The coloration is generally paler, less black-
ish, and the iusect is smaller; anal angle of posterior wings less pro-

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dnoed. Tbree 9 Bpeoimeos. Rsp. 92.00to2.30lDeli. Lengtihofbody
$ 1.00 to 1.10 inch.

SabikU.—OahA, (Po^.) CMl. Ent 800. Philod.

JVumftw 98 /bey"* -i^SrS. CnfcOtpwe.

I am anwilling to see in tltii speeiM a, ■nnoty of J?. h^wM*, m Dr
Henich-Sheeffer k diBpoeecI to r^nrd it. The Bpeoimens are oODBtant
in the difieTenceB I h&ve noted and soem to me Boffioientlj Bpetnfloallj
distinct.

X^o Sanvai.

^hirix Dantm Crun., Pap. Sxob. Ill, SI, PI. MS, Bg. B. (ITSl.)
Enyo Danuin, Edbner, V«n. Schtn. I3S, 1411. (ISIS.)
Snyo Oanmm, Talk., a B. U. Part Till, p. 118. (IBM.)
PUragon Donwrn, Bnrm^ Sph. Btm. p. IS. (IBtt.) I
Xngo Danwn, H-B., Cdtt. BlaU. p. ». (IBSfi.)

The ezoavationa of the anterior wings are modified &om eitlier of
the above speoies, wUle more nearl; approaching E. Catnertut. On
the poaterior wings the exoarationB befbre anal angle are different, the
t^nment at the Bnbmedian nerrare being more produced m as to fiirm
verjf plainly a donble exoavalion between the medio-poeterior nervnie
and the internal nervnre.

The coloration is very dark brown, while the diacal dot is net black
bat pale brown on anterior wings. On posterior pair in the male
there is a small patch of pale yellowish hair at extreme base of the
wing along internal margin ; in the female this patch is much larger,
spr^ing nearer to anal angle. The whole body is somewhat slenderer
than in the preceding speoiea. Two specimena % and $ . Kxp. % 2.40,
9 2.20 inch. Length of body t and 9 l.SO inch.

Bahitat.—Qvhe., (Poey.) Coll. Ent Soo. Fhilad.

NwnbiT 99 Potji't M88. Catalogue.

Professor Bnrmeister's description di^rs as to the omamentetion of
the posterior wiags from both Gramer's figure and my apecimens, which
agree together. It is not improbable that his specimens are errone-
ously referred to the present apeciea. His description of the internal
margin of the posterior wings does not oorreapond, and if by "Anf
der tloterseite der Oberfliigel ist ein weiaaer Funkt" he alludes to that
00 the costa before the apex, the species does not differ in this respect
from the preceding two. If, however, a discal spot is meant, it is cer-
tainly wanting io my speoimens of E. danum, where there is in the
female a mere trace of a paler shade on the diaoal cross-vein. Dr.
CiemeDa does not mention this species, probably since Mr. Walker
merely ^ves " Surinam " as the habitat. I have expressed my opinion
that perhapa uoder E. lugvhrit " Yar j, Nigro-fuiea; almpo$tiem ttrtga

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apad mat-j/inem interiorem aUndo-fiava," Mr. Walker baa recorded
speoimeoa of tlie present species.

HXKXBOFLAraa, Habner.
HamtroplaiiM pHiidi>tli7ieiu, a. b. (Plato i, fig. L)

OalUamma oielxat H-B., Corr. Blatt. p. 6T. (18S5.)

Not Sphinx oielu* Cram., PI. 21fl, fig. F, (I7B3.)
Dull chocolate-browD ; beneath pfiler, mixed with cinereous scales.
Head produced, elongated, eomewhat flattened, eyes large and italient;
maxilln well developed ; protfaoracic parts well extended before the
insertion of tbe primaries. Anterior wings pale brown, a roundedly
oblique blackish basal line, within which, on costa and below sab-costal
nerrure, are large blackish marks. Beyond, an outwardly rounded,
oblique, blackish transverae line mns from costa to internal margin,
which it joins near the base. Space between this latter line and the
basal line, paler than the rest of the wing. Median apace large, darker
shaded in tbe interspaces between the nervulea posteriorly, where it
acquires a faint purplish reflection ; on the discal cros.'s-vein a somewhat
L-shaped white mark, above which a second, smaller, ovate and ob-
liquely placed. From the internal margin a blackish irregular line
extends to the larger white mark and runs partly parallel to the trans-
verse anterior lino. Transverse posterior line blackish, undulate, out-
wardly arcuate, followed by a paler coincident shade. Snbterminal
space paler, acquiring with other portions of the wing an obsolete
greenish tinge which is difficult to define. In the post-apical interspace
a large, distinct, irregularly triangnlar, black spot. A black undulate
line margins inwardly a very narrow, darker, terminal space, which
extends from immediately below apex to below first median nervule,
somewhat as in the genus En>/o.

External margin of the wing excavate, resembling the species of
Enffo, and in a less degree Tki/reus ahhotii, to the general coloration
of which the present bears a resemblance which has suggested the
specific name. Apical interspace not excavated ; from post-apical to

somewhat abrupt and deep.
coloration. Pale at base ;
ian blackish shade band, beyond

medio-superior nervules the excavatio

Posterior wings resembling anterio
crossed by a diffuse prominent media

which the wing is paler. From anal angle, which shows a few mixed
whitish scales, a narrow black line runs towards costa, but is lost before
traversing half of the wing. .A terminal dark brown shade band,
broadest at costa, becoming obsolete before anal angle.

Beneath, the wings are paler than on upper surface. Both pair tra-
versed by a very distinct (especially on posterior ptur) tremulous black-

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ieh median b&nd. Thia U followed by a second, quite liDear, dietiact,
nndul&te between the neirules on anterior, but dentate on posterior
wings. Terminal margin blaclcisb between apical and medio-enperioF
nerrulcB on anterior wingB.

Head with a median dark line, whieh geparatea beyond the " ooUar "
into two, margining tbe tegnlse inwardly, these latter mixed with a few
lateral white scales ; two lateral brownish prothoraoic spots.. Abdomen
conical : a few lateral whitish, and below these blaekish, scales at base ;
anal segment with a few whitish faaire, not tufted (unless by accident
tbe specimen has t>eoome deprived of the anal squammation) ; colored
mnch as the thoracic and caputal parts. Legs nnicolorooa with body —
except two reduced spurs at the extremity of the middle and bind
tibire — unarmed. One t (?) ^P^*'™^". Exp. 2.90 inch. Length of
body IM inch.

Habitat.— CuhsL, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Numher 124 Poey'» MSS. Catalogs.

Under the present generic name Htibner has arranged four species
of Sphing^dae figured by Cramer on Plate 216, and called by that
author SphiTix Fan. fig. D, S. Triplolemus, fig. F, S. Pluto, fig. B,
and S. oiclut, fig. G. These species seem perfectly well associated,
and while resembling Engo, are slighter, slenderer; the head more pro-
duced and flattened. The anal segments of the males are not provided
with the square cut tuft of En^o, nor are tbe anal segments so sud-
denly constricted. The anterior wings are provided with triangulate
ulbate marks, reminding one of Callwmtna, though without sharing
the lustre of the latter genus, from which tbe present is very amply
distinct by tbe excavation of the external margin of the anterior wings,
less prominent palpi, stouter antennfe, and more developed mazillse.

The present species differs from Cramer's figure of S. oiclm, too much
to allow of its being referred to that species. The gray color of Cra-
mer's figure, the different shape of the discal albate spots, tbe course '
of the transverse posterior line, the punctate squammation, are very dis-
tinctive, while the lateral prothoracic brown spots are present in JSeme-
riiplanei pieudolhffreua, but much reduced.

raUQOSU, Boiaduval.
Fsrlgonla luo*.

Sphinx bi^ca Fabr.. Sp. Ins. II, 140, 5. (1781.)
" '• Fabr., ManL Ins. II. es, i. (ITS7.)

■' Fabr., Ent. .Byst. Ill, 1, 3Sfl, 6. (ITflS.)

Ferigenia /hmo Walk., C. R M. Part VIII, p. 101. (I8S8.) ?

" " Clem., Byn. H. Am. Sph. p. 138. (1869.)?

" H-8., Corr. Blatt p. Sfl. (18M.)

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Mr. Wtlkw hu referred Persia ttuUa Boied., H-S. Exot. %.
106, M a synonym of Hm speoias, bat I believe it is distinot. Tbe
following «re some of Uie difbrenoes ; — ^Tbe eUe of P. ituUa ie enuller ;
the ahape of the ezt«mal margin of the anterior wings ia modified from
that in P. buea, being more produced medially and at iutersal aogle.
Tbe shading and eoloratioD of the terminal space is different. In P.
Irnca, a well defined blaokiah line rans from apex to internal angle,
wbiob is entirely wanting in Dr. Herrich-Schiefier's figote. Finally,
the yellow of the posterior wings ia more intense, and absorbs tbe en-
tire base of the wing in P. ttulta. Like the speoiee of Eityo, the species
of Perigonia are nearly allied and easily to be oonfoonded. which how-
ever does not lessen their speoifio validity. Two specimens, % and 9
Ezp. % 2.10, 9 2.30 inch. Length of body & and $ , 1.20 ineh.

ffij6t(oi.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

dumber 444 Poe/i MSS. Oatalogue.
pHigenla Lafebrrii

Macrogloiaa Lfffebrrrii Lnoaa, H.S. Oott. Blstb p. 117. {1803.)
Pengonia I^ebvni H-S. Coir. Blatt p. G6. (ISSS.)

Smaller than the preceding wbiob it resembles, bnt differs as fol-
lows : — The median line on anterior wings is not followed by a dark
diffuse shade as in P. liuca, and tbe markings generally not so strong ;
the external mai^n is more angulated and less rounded; the yellow of
the posterior wings is more intense and like that in P. ttulta; there is
no yellowish patch at anal angle as in P. huea. The female specimen
sent is much darker than tbe male, which it otherwise resembles. Two
specimens, % and $ . Exp. % , 1.80 inch. 9 1.90. Length of body
1.00 inch.

Sabitat.—GnhA, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 120 Poey't MSS. Catalogue.

I have not bad access to M. Bamou de la Sara's work in which
Lucas' description is contained, but have used instead Dr. Herrioh-
Scbsefier's very aoceptable renmU of its lepidopterologioal contents,
giveu in the pages of the " Correspondenz Blatt," Dr. Q-nndlach seems
to have sent a specimen of P. Ivaca under the present name te Dr.
Herrioh-Schseffer ; I do not doubt the specific validity of my specimens,
or the oorreotness of their identifioataon with Macrogthua Le/eburii
Lucas.

CALUOUA, Boifdaral.
eaUiemma Lycactiu.

SpMnx Incaatua Cram., Pap. ExoL IT, ISO, PI. 3S1, fig. A. (1782.)
Oreut Licaitui Habn., Teri. Bchmett. ISt, 14fl6. (1816.)
Oailiomma LfCaitva Walk., a B. M. Part VUI, p. 110. (18S0.)

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^inx Galianna Barm., 8ph, Brnz. p. A. [I85<.)

Calliomnuf Lsautus Clemens, Syn. N. Am. Sph. p. 141. (leU.)

OtlliomTna Lycaatua E-8., Corr. BUtt. p. 57. (1885.)

Sfihiitx Farce Fabr., quoted by Mr. Walker as & synonym of this
species, if ideatical would have priority, wbile both Dr. Herrich-Schfeffer
aod Prof. Bnnueister regard it as a distinct species. With respect to
Sphinx Galiimna Burm., from the short comparative descriptioQ, it
would seem that it ia identical with Cramer's speeiea. While Cramer's
figure otherwise very nearly corresponds to the Cuban specimens, it
differs by the absence of the very brilliant, argent, pjriform, diacal spot
which shows a single inward projection at the superior linear part. In
the description, however, Cramer alludes to the silvery mark in the
following words which altogether but indifferently apply — " Sur les
ailes sup^rieures se trouvent quelqties petit«9 taches, argent^es doat
celle, qui est dans la partie intermediare, a le plus beau lustre." I
have copied the sentence exactly as it stands in the original. This'
species, if not identical with Cramer's Liccufus, may be known as Cal-
Vurmma Galianna (Sphinx Galianna, Burm.), a name which would
have better claims for adoption had it been more properly defined.
Belying apparently on its absence in Cramer's figure, Prof. Burmeistcr
has assumed the absence of the silver-spot in the insect itself, I judge
without consulting Cramer's description which I have quoted above.
Mr. Walker's description evidently refers to the present species. Dr.
Clemens has not seen the species apparently. Two specimens, % and $ .
Exp. S and 9 2.60 inch. Length of body, % 2.20, 9 2.30 inch.

Sabitat.—CahB., (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soo. Philad.

Numhur 90 Pory't MSS. Oiitaloi/ue.

FZK0E8A, Walker.
F«TgM« tboratH.

Sphinx t&orates Hilbuer, Zutr. Exot Schm. fig. ^25-0. (1826.)

Perge»a ttorates Walker, C. B. M. Part VIII, p. 151. (18SS.)

'< •' Clemaaa, Syn. S. Am. Sph. p. 146. (185S.)

" H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 58. (1886.)

Two specimens, £ and $ . Exp. % 2.70, $ 2.60 inch. Length of
body, % , l.iO, 9 1.50 inch.

Habitat.— G\ih&, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

JVumfier 76 Poeff't MSS. Catahffiu:.

This species differs fVom Therttra Porrdhi* Hiibn., from Europe,
by the longer antennae, as staled by Mr. Walker, and I think differs
otherwise generically from the European species.

The genus Pergaa is the first in the present Collection belonging to
u Tribe of the family Sphingidse, which may be called — Chxrorampini,

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in accordance vith my views respecting the internal orrangenieDt of
lepidopterous Familiea, and which have resulted parti; from a study
of the learned " Classification of the Coleoptera of North America," by
Dr. John L. Leoonte, a work which, while it has been ignorantly styled
an " KlemeQt*&r-Buch" by a German critic, posse^es great originality
and lucidity of composition aad arrangement, rendering it a very valu-
able addition to scientific knowledge. The genus Calltomma, closes
the Tribe Macmi/l'/saini, while Pieudotpkiiar, inaugurates the more
tjrpioal Tribe of the Family — SpHngini. A fourth Tribe — Smerin-
thini — is not represented in the present Collection, while I reserve an
amplification of this arrangement to a different Paper.

DKSSOOAICPA, Cupanchel.
OhwiMampa ITmIidi.

^hinx ifechus Cramer, 11, PI. 178, fig. B. (1779.)
Fabr., Bp. Ina. II, 152, 59. (1781.)
" " Fttbr., Maot 11, B8, 81. (1787.)

" " Fftbr., Ent. Byet. Ill, 1, S77, 63. (1793.)

" " Gmelin, ed. Byet. Nat. 1, i, 2331, 89.

Therttra Neckus Hubnar, Veri 135, 1447. {1816.)
Cheroatmpa Ckiron Walk., C. B. M. P. VIII, p. 132. (1856.)

" " ClBmenB, Syn. N. A. Sph. p. 150. (1859.)

Not Sphinx Chiron Drury, Eiot. I, 56, PI. 26, f. 3. (1770.) '
Charocampa Ncchtu. H-8., Corr. Bl. p. 58. (1865.)

Green. Anterior wings rather intenae and vivid green; nervules
iu terminal space inconspicuously and minutely covered with dHrk
scales, and bordered faintly with pale yellowiab testaceous scattered
scales. Base of wing clothed with dark scales, forming a small, bkuk-
ish, irregular patch extending to costa and mixed inwardly with paler
scales. Below, immediately on internal margin at base, is a small
though sufficiently prominent, somewhat elongated, pale-yellowish patch,
the scales composing which are long and hairy.

The entire median space from eosta to internal margin is of a vivid
green, ooncolorous, without markings except a small distinct pale yel-
lowish discal dot.

A very obUque, wide, sub-terminal band runs parallel with external
margin from costa, where it is widest, spreading narrowly to the apes,
to theint«rnal margin where it also widens narrowly as at costa, spread-
ing to internal angle, which latter is minutely fringed with pale yellow-
ish. This band is composed of brownish scales, which form a promi-
nent, costal, sub-triaugular patch and are mixed in parts with blackish,
and is traversed by blackish lines, the latter most distinct at the centre
iu the 9 , where they are arcuate between the veins and the band is nar-
rowest. In the % at the centre of the wing this band is obsolete and the

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esternal defioing blackish lines are Dot observable. Where thisaubtenni-
aal band dilates apicalljon the costa aod on internal margin within ia-
ternal angle, it is composed of blackish scales, the latter shade more
prevaleDt in the 9 than in the % , in which also this sabterminal hand
is most distinct. Terminal space greeo, widest at the centre, concol-
orous with median space. Fringes brownish, except at internal angle.

Posterior winga blackish, pale yellowish on costa; a pale jellow,
subterminaj band, constrict«dly interrupted shove anal angle and
divided by the nervules, which latter are more or less covered by
darker scales, into sub-triangular spots, of which the largest and most
isolated surmoucts anal angle ; the anal space also largely yellow.
Fringes very pale yellowish.

Under surface of both wings bright ferruginous ochraceoos, irrorate
with darker dots and lines. The external defining lines of the suh-
terminal band of the upper surface are here represented very distinctly
and are arcuate between the veins, enclosing a brighter ferruginous
yellowish space, analagous to the subterminal band of the upper surface ;
terminal margins of both pair tinged with olivaceous.

Thorax and head above olivaceous-green, with a lateral line on both
Hides running 'from the tips of the tegulse, where it is darkest, above
the eyes to tips of palpi. Some darker hairs mixed at base of thorax.

Abdomen above green without spots and bands, though there is a
series of paler segmentary defining shades. Beneath, the abdomen is
clothed with mixed fawn, whitish and ochreous scales, which extend
laterally upwards, where they are darkest. Under surface of thoracic
region and palpi clothed with dense, mixed ferruginous and yellow,
hairy squammation ; two lateral green large subtriangular patches, be-
neath anterior wings and extending in front of them. Legs finely
scaled, paler outwardly. Esp. % 2.50 inches, 9 3.00 inches. Length
of body % 1.50 inch. ? 1.60 inch.

^„7,i(a(.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Nitmber 81 of PoM/'i MHS. Ca(alogv.e.

Chierocampa Chiron Drury sp., seems to me, judging by the figure,
to be a distinct species. Cramer's figure, on the other hand, refers
undoubtedly to the present species.

GhaTooampa OnndlMliil.

Charocampa Oundlachii Herrich-Bchffifier, Con. Blatt. p. U9. (1883.)
" " H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. *8. (1(,85.)

Green. Anterior wings of an olivaceous-green, of a duller shade
than the thoracic re^on above ; external margin not so oblique, not api-
cally so falcate as in the preceding species. Base of wings clouded with

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ooDlused blHokiBli BciileB. MediBD space olivaceontt-greeii, oonooloroufl ;
a amnll whitiah disoal dot, clouded outwardly with blackUh scales. Ad
obliqne, even, subterraiual, blackish Use, bordered invardty with a pale
shade, Tans from interaal margin to just below costa, which it does not
attMn, becoming obsoleM in the space below. This line is mrat distinct on
intern&l margin, where it is slightly dilated by a. few blackish, scattered
scales. Terminal space otivaceoos-green, concolorona with median space
and widening towards internal margin ; fringes brownish except a very
few scales at internal angle, which are whitish.

Posterior wings entirely blackish-brown, immaculate, conoolorons.
with whitish fringes.

Under surface oliTaceons^reen ; the anterior wings largely soffnsed
basally with brownish, which shade extends beyond discal spot. A sub-
terminal, narrow, even, brown lino mns across both pur and on posterior
pair is slightly bent below cmta. The fsreen posterior wings show a
few scattered brownish scales.

Head and thoracic region dark intense green above. A lateral mar-
ginal white line extends from base of ant«rior wings above the eyes
to tips of palpi.

Abdomen above green, mixed with a few brownish scales. Beneath
slightly paler; on fourth and fifth segments the brownish color forms
a moderate clouded patch.

The thoracic region beneath and outside of palpi are unicolorous
green. Legs finely scaled, dirty whitish outwardly, inwardly the tibiie
are clothed with greenish s^juammation. Exp. % 2.00 inches. Length
of body 1.20 inch.

Haintut.—Caha, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 97 of Pon/'t MSS. C-italogue.

Agrees very well with Dr. Herriob-Sohseffer's description as above
cited, except that the hind wings show no ochraoeous shade at internal
angle,* where they are perhaps insensibly paler.
ClMTMampa inorata, n. b. (Flato I, tig. 2.%.)

Allied to CkxrocaTttpa GvndlachU. Dull reddish &wn color with a
slightly roseate tinge, irrorate with minute blackish scale patches, ^t
the base, along the costa and on the disc, the wing is more or leaa
clouded with a darker shade ; disoal spot dark, very minute. The costal
edge and edge of internal marjnn are paler An even, dark brownish,
oblique, subterminal line runs from internal mai^in much within inter-

* Hft. achwitrzbrsua, luit ockergelb«n Wieeh im Afterwiokel ; H-8. Corr.
Blatt.p. Ii9. ([8fl3.)

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oal angle, to anb-ooslal space where it beoomes obsolete, Dot attaioing
the coBta ; this line is fllightly margiDed inwardly along its length by a
paler shade and is somewhat, hut very slightly, aronate. TermiDal
space similarly colored to median, widening to internal margin, and in-
feriorly and apioally more or less snffosed with a darker shade. Ex-
ternal margin not very oblique, nor snb-apicalty tklcate, resembling in
this respect the preceding species.

Posterior wings blackish-brown, centrally dullreddiah along all the
mai^ns, paler shaded at anal angle ; fringes white.

Under surface of wings paler than upper surface, with extretitely
scattered and sparse irrorations. The ant«rior wings at base show a
small dnll brownish patch and a bent subterminal line apparent at and
shortly below costa, thence discontinued.

Head, and thoracic append^es above, rich reddish-brown. A very
distinct, white, lateral line runs from extreme base of thorax to tips of
palpi above the eyes.

Abdomen paler than thorax, a little darker above, the segments
slightly margined by paler shades. Palpi, under surface of abdomen
and thoracic r^on oonooloroos with the under surface of the wings,
while slightly nmre reddish. Legs finely scaled ; outwardly clothed
with whitish scales, inwardly conoolorous with under thoracic region.
The sexes do not differ except very slightly in the general shading;
the female seems to be the darkest, but I have not discovered other
differences. Exp. t 2.W inches, $ 2.50 inches. Length of body %
1.30 inch, 9 1.30 inch.

Eahitat —Oahn, (Poey,) Coll. Ent. 800. Phil.

yttmhtr 1003 0/ Poeif't MSS. Calahgiie.

This species in general coloration resembles distantly Darapia choe-
rilut, but'the color b neither so bright nor intense. In the deaign of
umamention it resembles O. Gundlacha, to which it is nearest allied,
while its superior site and very distinct and differing general coloration
will at once distinguish it. It is perhaps the species described under
the number "6" by Dr. Herrich-Schaaffer, Corr. Blatt. p. 58, 1866, but
which is not named by that author.

OhJBroeampa Poroni.

Oraig Farm*, Hubn., Exot. Bchm. L«p. i, 8ph. 3. (18S4.)
Darapta Parent, Walk., C. B. M. Part VIII, p. 13T. (1868.)
Charoaanpa Piyretui H-8. Corr. BUtt. p. 58. (ISflfi.)
Dnsky olivaceous; anterior wings very falcate at the apices, which

latter are somewhat depressed, rounded along external margin, narrow.

An arcnat«d row of subterminal dusky dots on the veins; a very fkint,

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oblique, disooDtmued, dentate line beyond the disc; discal spot dusk}',
diatinct, very small ; an angnlated very indistinct eub-bafiiil line. The
wing anbeostally, before the a pes, irregularly Hprinkled with reddiah-
oobraoeoua scales ; a dusky shade spreads along the coeta at the middle
of the wing and extends nndefinedly downwards beyond the discal spot.
The ground color is a pecoliar obscnre dnsky purplish, becoming some-
what dark olivaceous towards the base. The whole wing is destitute
of any very distinct markings, except the subterminal row of spots on
the nervules.

Fbst«rior winga dull black, tcataoeoos along the costa, very slightly
pale blackish before the anal angle on internal margin; fringes whitish.

Under sur&ce of both wings dull grayish with a warm purplish
tinge, sprinkled with dusky irrorations, and with a subobsolete, aubter-
miDal series of dots on the nervules; on. anterior pair the basal half
centrally is dusky, djscal dot white.

Head above, and thorax, dark dusky-olivaceous. A narrow white
stripe mai^ns the thoracic parts, laterally obsoletely continued to
base of antennie, beyond these, above the eyes, it is more distinct.
Palpi externally, dusky purplish-gray, terminal joints tinged with oliva-
eeouB. Under aurface of thoracic region and abdomen quite pale, dull,
purplish-gray; upper surface of abdomen darker, without ornamenta-
taon of any kind. Legs finely sealed, like the under corporal parts in
coloration, narrowly margined laterally with whitish.

One male specimen. Exp. % ,2.80 inches. Length of body % , 1.50
inch.

Hahilat.—Cuha., (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soo. Phil.

Number 94 of Poey's MSS. Oataloffue.

A peculiarly graceful dusky species, with very falcate apices of ante-
rior wings. The general style of coloration and ornamentation bears a
certain resemblance to the figure of Darapsa But^u Cramer sp., but
that species is evidently quite distinct. The corporal part« are some-
what stouter than in the other species mentioned in this paper except-
ing C. Nechu», and, perhaps, C. terM-.
ChsTDBsmpa Aabiiuonii, n. a. (Plate I, fig. 3, %.)

Ckisroeampa faleo H-B., Corr. Blatt. p. 148. (1883.)

Not GhierocaMpafalao Walker, C. B. M. Part VIII, p. 132. (1356.)

% . Pale testaceous -brown ; beneath, tinged with dark ochraceous.
Anterior wings striate, external margin rounded, apes falcate, general
shape of both wings aa in ChierocaTnpa ter»a, to which this species is
nearest allied, but is smaller and otherwise specifically distinct. Base
of anterior wings and along costa to discal spot, powdered" with grayish

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scales. Discal spot small, black, distjoct. At one-third of the length
of the internal margin from baee, three curvilinear, black, shade BtrealcB,
merged together inferiorly, run very obliquely towards the apex, be-
coming obBolete below the pale apical space ; a fourth, in the pate spaoe
ext«mally, is subobsolete. From extreme apex three or four aimibr bat
paler, more linear streaks, separating as they proceed, run inrerBely
towards internal margin, before attaining which they become subobso-
lete. The wing is palest along iuternal mar^n from the base of the
bands at the basal third to internal angle, and again subapically, while
on the costa and spreading slightly below at apical third, the wing is
covered with dark ochreous scales. Under surface of both pair, shaded
with bright ochreous, sparsely sprinkled with dark scales and with a
suhtermioal row of black dots on the nervules; terminal spaces darker.

Posterior wings hrowaish-black; testaceous-yellow along costa at
base; anal angle rather largely testaceous yellowish, from whence &
narrow, similarly colored band, divided obsoletely by the darker squam-
mation of the nervoles, runs to sub-costal interspace near the apex ;
fringes whitish.

Head above, and tegule, olivaceous-brown, the latter with a distinct
ochreous median longitudinal stripe: disc of the thorax cinereous. A
broad whitish stripe runs from the tips of the palpi above the eyes to
the base of the thorax, widening at the base of anterior wings laterally,
where it becomes somewhat cinereous; abdomen pale brownish, with a
slight reddish tjnge and with two broad tongitadinal darker shade bands
above, running eloee together, beneath paler, and, with under surface of
thoracic region and palpi, presenting the same shade as upper surface
of abdomen, mixed with a few whitish hairs. Legs whitish outwardly,
brownish inwardly ; antennae whitish above, testaceous beneath.

9 . Dark tesiaceous-brown. Differs from the % by the darker co-
loration ; the three anterior curvilinear stripes are more fused, forming
a broad shade behind, the fourth, in the paler space, more continued
and distinct. The posterior wings are more brownish, with the yellow-
ish sub-terminal band much reduced, more disconnected. Body, as
indeed the entire insect, greatly darker. Exp. % 2.'20 inches, $ 2.30
iaches. Length of body, i 1.30 Inch. 9 1.40 inch.

^aiiJu(.— Cuba, (Poey.) ColL Ent. Soc. Phil.

Number 946 o/ Fo'-y't MSS. Calahgue.

Nearest allied to C/imrocampa lerta, with which it coincides in the
shape of the wings, but the present species is smaller, while the exter-
nal mai^n is slightly more rounded; the striate, black, shade lines
originate liirther from the base and are curved, not straight, while the

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posterior wings sra paler, the yellow band not so diettact and niKcular
as ID that Bpeciea.

From ft ^:are of C. falco Walk., executed under the superintendeDce
of Mr. Walker, and for permieeioD to examiue which I am indebted tu
Mr. S. CaWerley, the present species widely differs. In the Mezican
species the anterior wings are more falcate, the external margin greatly
straighten, while the terminal epace is mnch paler, encloning a very dis-
tinct hlack band, which dilates triangularly on inl«rnal margin; the
external margin of posterior wings is also much straighter. the yellow
color more largely predominates, the black space in the centre of the
wing being reduced to a narrow band ; the abdominal ornumentetion
also differs, wfaile the species is much lai^r than its Cuban ally, the
latter more nearly allied to C. leria.*

I dedicate this species to the Entomolo^st and my kind fHend, Cole,
man T. Robinson, of New York City.
OkariMampa T«ni~

Sphim: 7V7-«t, Drury, Eiot I, 81, PL 38, fig. 3. (ITJO.)
Fftbr. 8ys. Ins. II. US, 59. {1781.)
Cramar, Exot. IV, !2«, PI. 39T, fig. C. (1782.)
Fabr. Mant. Iqb. II, SB, 6i. (178T.)
Fabr. Entom. Syst. Ill, I. (17B3.)

Abbot A Bmith, Nat. Hist. Ins. Georg. I, 75, PI. 3S. (1791.)
Thertira Th-sa, Hubner, Vem. i3S, U4B. (1818.)
Chcerocawtpa Urea, Harris, Bill. Joura. V. Si, 303, 4. (1839.)
Metoptilaa Urea, Duncan, Nat. Libr. 37, PI. 5, fig. 1 ; PI. «, fig, 1.
Chixrocampa Teria, Walk., C. B. M. Part Till, p. ISl. (18SS.)
Philampelua Teraa, Burm., SytL Ueb. 8ph. Brai. p. i. (1858.)
Charocampa Terta, Clem., Sjn. N. Am. Bph. p. 150. (1859.)
'< " H-8. Corr. Bl. p. 58. (18S5.)

The specimens sent do not differ from those which I have examined
fVom di^rent parts of the United States.

Two specimens, % and 9 . Exp. % , 2.70, $ 2.80 inches. Length
of body, % and $ , 2.55 inches.

Eabitat—€uhi\, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.
Number 512 Poey'i MSS. Catalogue.

DEILBFHILA, Ochaenhdmer.
SaUepUU CalTsrleri. n- a- (Plate I, fig. 4, ^O

Allied te Deilephila lineata, and with a certain resemblance to Dfilf-
pkita chamxnerii. Anterior wings dull brownish, very faintly olivaceous,

■ "Data die von mir beschriebene Art (Corr. BI. 1883, p. 148) als Variettt
hieher gehoren ealle, wie H. O. meint, kaoD ich nicht glauben, abgleich Ich die
richtige Bestimmuug uach Walker nicht verbUrgen kann." H-S. C!. B. 1885, p.
58. Mr. Gundlaoh'8 Bappoeition I regard, with Dr. Herrich-Soheffor, as deci-
dedly ei

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The central, oblique, pale fascia vLicli proceeds from the apex, is nar-
rower, more irregular, and kae neatly defined than in either of the
above mentioued congeaera. It joIdb the internal mat^n at nearer the
middle, widening on the margin, where it ia composed of white Boales
sprinkled with brownish. The nervulee are obsoletely paler than the
ground color of the wing. The terminal apace ie wider than in D. line-
ata and much as in D. chummnrrii ; fringes on internal mai^in white.

Posterior wings emaller than in D. Hneiiln, very elightlj excarate
before anul angle on external margin, which latter is more rounded than
in allied epeciea. A median dull red hand, narrowest at costa, nowhere
andnlate or constricted, becoming white on internal margin, somewhat
as in D. chainteneru. Baaeof the wing dull blackish, paler along oosta;
the Bubterminal dull blackish band is straight, nowhere constricted or
nodulate, slightly excavate between the nerrules ; termiua) space red-
dish, broader than in allied species ; fringes white.

Under snrface of both pair of winga quite similar to that of D. lineata,
but with a dark sub-apical zig-iag atreak on the primaries from the
costa, and an interrupted atraighter one on the secondaries, issuing from
the coata before the straight sub-basa] transTerse band, which latter it
joins before the middle of the wing.

Head and thorax olivaceous-brown, darker ahaded on the tegnlffi,
which are margined with white stripes, making four thoracic white
stripes aa in D. livirttico. Abdomen, dull pale brownish, with suhob-
Bolete ornamentation ; the aegments show alternately paler and darker
dorsal shade bands. The second and third segments show each a late-
ral black spot, of which that on the second segment is much the largest ;
no dorsal murks as in allied species; the segments laterally show dis-
continued white margins, of which the .first is continued across the ab-
domen above. Antennse whitish, paler than in allied species, much as
in Deilephiln Euphorhix from Europe.

One male specimen. Exp. ti > -.70 inches. Length of body, 1.6fl
inch.

Habitat.— Q.yyU, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.

Nvmiher 954 Pwy't MSS. Catahijue,

I dedicate this species — which I have compared studiously with its
congeners, and am satisfied of its specific distinctiveness — to Mr. Ste-
phen Culverley, of New York city, whose kind assistance and advice I
have frequently had recourse to in scientific matters.

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IMlephaU IlnMtk.

BiAinx lintaUi, FabriciaE, 871. Ent. a. Ins. (1775.)
" daueut. Cram., II. U, pi. 126, fig. D. (1779.)
" Untala, Abbot, Smith Ine. Georgia 1.77, pi. 3». (1797.)
' Deilephila dauetu, StepheDi, III. Brit. Etit. Haait. I, 120, 1.11. (ISH.)
" lineala, Harris, Cat. S. A. Bph. Bill. Joarn. (1839.)

djivcut. Walker, C. B. M. VIII, p. 171. (18*8.)
" lineaia, Clemens, B711. 9. A. Sph. Jaum. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. p.

143. (1859.)
davcvi, H-8. Corr. Blatt Beg. p. fiB. (1885.]
" liHtata, Grote, Proc. Eat. Soc. Phil. Vol. 1, p. 319. (18«t.)
Two apecimena, S and 9 .
Habitat.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.
Number 513 Po^^yg MSS. Cat<ilogu€.

The specimeDB do not difTer from a number of individuals taken in
different porta of the United Statea, the Territories and Cunadas, that I
have examined. I give, after examination, the priority to Fabricius.
vho intended our species, distinct from the European Deilephtia lioor-
nij-a. in hia original description, vbich reads as followa :

"iSphinK liueata; bHe vireacentibus; fascia Btriisquc albis; posticis
nigris : fascia rubra. Habitat in America. Statura prSBcendentis.
Caput virescena, atria lateralibua alba. Thorax Tireacena, striis tribus
iJbisduplicatuB. Abdomen cinereu.ni,albo nigro-que maculatum. AlfB
anticee integemmse, faaoia media striiai^ue aex fasciam secantlbue ab-
breviatie, albis. Margo posticus cinerascens. Subtua omnes cinerae-
centes, atom is viridebuB."

The trivial name Uneata has been given to the European D. liiior-
nka by certain authors, while from the above it is evident that Fabri-
cius intended the American and not the European species, a specimen
of which tatter I have before me, and which differa from the present
species by the absence of the intermediate white stripe on the tegulae
as well as by the abdominal ornamentation, which latter character seems
not to have been hitherto dwelt upon. lu the synonymy I have given
merely the citation of Fabricius' first notice of the species in hia " Sys-
tema Entomologiie sistens Insectorum ciasses, etc." Flensburgi et
Lipsiro, 1775. DeikphiUi Uneata, Stephens III. Brit. Ent. Hanst. 1,
126, S, pl. 12, fig. 1, refers to the European Deilephila livornica and
not to the present species.

VYOSAXtSLTSB. Harris.
PUUmpeluf vltU.

^kinx n'fu, Linn. Sj-Bt. Nat. p. 801, No. 16. (17«e.)
" '■ Drury, Eiot. 1, 60, PI. 28, fig. 1. (1770.)

" Fabriciufl, Sp. Iqb. II, 14T, 36. (1781.)
" Cram. Eiot, III, pi. 267, fig. C. (1782.)

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ap\inx viUt, Fabr. Usat lue. II, «fl. 3S. (178T.)
" " " Ent. Syat. HI, 1, 389, <1. (1793.)

" Abbot 4 Bmith, Ins. Georg. 1, 79, PI. 10. (17S7.)
Dtipo vilit, Hllbner, Veri, Bchm. 137, (1816.)
Philampeiu* vitU, HairiB, C. N. Am. Bph. p. 19. (ISStt.)

" " W»lk., C. B. M. Part VIII, p. ITS. (I868.)7

" " Burm., Bph. Braz. p, 3. (18S6.)

Philampelaa Juaaietue, Clem,, Bvn. W. Am. Bph. p. 1ST. (1869.)
Fhilampclua mti», H-B., Corr. Blatt. p. 68. (1885.)

The bind wiogs are pale greeaish at base snd belov costa ; along the
exterDsl margin from eoetal angle to medio-poBterior nervnie, is a broad
terminal pink band, within which a broad black fascia, interrupted bj
greenish scales on the nervules, and terminating below medio -posterior
nervnie in two narrow lines, outside of which latter a brownish square
spot OQ t«rminal space above anal angle. Internal margin largely pink ;
two black spots below the disc ; a few white scales within the terminal
bUck lines above ana) aagle.

Two specimens, % and 9 . Esp. % , 3.60, ? S.SQ inches, licngth
of body, % 2.00, 9 1.80 inches.

ff'ibitat.—CuhsL, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.

yiimher '217 Pofy't MSS- Catalogue.
FhilampslBt fiwotatai.

aphinxfatdatui, Bulnr, Gesoh. Ins. PI. 20, fig. 1. (1776.)
Sphinx vitit, Cramer, Ezot. til, Fl. 28S, fig. E. (1782.)
Not SpKita vitis, Linn. etc.
Dupo JutnewK, HUbn., Vere. Bchm. p. 137. (1818.)

>• " " Eiot. Bchm. I>ep. Ill, Bphing. II. (1824.)

P\Uamptliu florniecAiana, Harria, C. N. A. 8ph. p. IB. (1839.)?

'< Jiuneiuc, Walk., C. B. H. Part VIII, p. 177. (ia&«.)

mils, Clem., Syn. K. Am. Sphing. p. IS*. (18SB.)
" /oscuhu, H-B., Corr. Blatt. p. S8. (186S.)

It is very probable that PhUampflus Hornbe-ckiana, Harris, Oat. N.
A. Sph. p. 19, foot-note, refers to the present species. Until, however,
specimens are received from St. Thomas, W. I., this fact cannot be
considered certain since the description does not satisfactorily agree
with the specimens from Cuba. These undoubtedly belong to the spe-
cies erroneously figured by Cramer, as above cited, as the female of J'.
vitie. This has not been observed by Mr. Walker and Dr. Clemens j
the latter, in copying the synonymy, has apparently changed the species
as above quoted.

Dark olive green; more robust than P. viliK. The bands on anterior
wings are mixed with white scales anteriorly ; the V-shaped space on
internal margin targe and not enclosed on the margin. Posterior wing»
green ; a Urge rose-colored space on anal angle and along internal mar-

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gin ; a l&rge rectangular blaok spot within ; two narrow median lines,
the inner — black, moat distinct, and joining the large black spot at the
outer inferior angle, the outer — faint, glaucous, contiguous tOBubterminal
band, bent before anal angle ; a broad Bubterminal black band, widest
at ooeta, narrowing to anal angle before which it is Buddenly constricted ;
terminal space narrow, nowhere ]iinkish, dull ochraceouB-testaceous ;
external margin more undulate than in /*. vitie.

This species may be quickly distinguished from P. vitit. by the ab-
sence of the pink terminal space on posterior wings. I have endeavored
in the description of these latter to bring out the differences which are
very palpable, and which sufficiently separate the two speoies.

Two specimens, % and 9 . Exp. % tt.50, $ 3. SO inches. Length of
body, i and 2 1.80 inch.

^<fii(u;.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Hoc. Phil.

Number 217 Pon/'» MSS. Vntalogue.

PfliLAMPELue BTRKNUUS, {Chmiotamjia itremia, M^n^tn^, En.
Corp. An. Mus. Ac. Sci. Petr. Ins. Lep. II, p. 132, Tab. 12, fig. ii, 1857)
from Hayti, is allied to P. /aiciatut, and its position is plainly between
the latter and P. li/carm, mihi. Dr. Clemens has not noticed the Hay-
tian species in the " Synopsis."

Phllampelni L^moil.

Sphinx Lyeaon, Cram., Enot. PI. 5S, fig, A. (1779.)
Phatua Lyeaoa, HUbn., Eiol. Schmett. (1824.)
Fhilampelaa taUlliiia, Walker. C. B. M. p. 175. [185B.)
Not Sphinx aaietlitia, Linn. Drurj, Harris.

Pkilampelm mUUitia, Clem., (parlim) Syn. N. A. Sp. p. 154. {185B.)
■' H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 147. (18*3 )
H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. Sa (18B5.)

The synonymy of the present species is much embroiled. Oar North-
ern species figured by Drury, PI. 29, fig. 1, and by Harris, Ina. Inj.
PI. 5, fig, 2, is specifically distinct from the Oaban species, and should
retain the name mtellitia, being (vide Drury) the specieB intended by
Linnaeus. Mr. Walker has evidently called that species Pandtirus,
Hilbn,, which name I regard as a synonym of P. sat'-f/ilia.

Cramer's figure of hycaon differs from the Cuban specimens before
me by the clouded patch on posterior wings before the apex, and by
the absence of the rose-colored spot at anal angle, in both of these cha-
racters resembling P. mUUitia. But since the shape and markings of
the anterior wings are (juite distinct from P. safellitiOf and nearly cor-
respond with the Cuban species, and moreover as 1 infer from descrip-
tions that the roseate spot is inconstant, I am disposed to agree with
Dr. Herrich-Schffiffer I. c. that Cramer intended the West Indian species.

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That, under/*. Jwi'-Wfiri, Mr. Walker has intended the preBeDtspeciea,
I do not doubt, while hin citation of Harris is incorrect. I cannot ac-
count for Dr. Hemch-Schseffer's remark that " Walker quotes Harris and
Htthner correctly under P. Pandorus." The mystery attending Mr.
Walker's use and citation of P. ampe/opka^a, Harris, (ubi ?) is inex-
plicable, and this remark of Dr. Herrich-Hchseffer's seems to sanction
the existence of such a description. Dr. Clemens has already alluded
to the non-existence of any description of Dr. Harris' under the spe-
cific name of atnpKlophaga, 1. o. p. 154,

If, then, we transfer the entire synonymy cited by Mr. Walker on p. 17S
1. e. to Phi/iimpebis Pan/fi/rm, Walk., on p. 174 1. c, excepting the refer-
enees of Cramer and Hiibner under the specific name of Lffcaon, we shall
have the synonymy of our Northern species described by Mr. Walker
as P. I'aniinrvK, while the present species, described by the English
Entomologist as P. satellilia, will receiTe the name I have here adopted.
Dr. Clemens appears t-o regard these two species as identical, a conclu-
sion which I must beheve to be entirely erroneous. Dr Herri ch-8chfief-
fer has appreciated the difference between the two species, while retain-
ing the name of P. tatelfitia for the present species, in consonance with
Mr. Walker's incorrect synonymy.

Differs from P. mtellif'a, Linn, by the somewhat slighter and nar-
rower shape. The external margin of anterior wings is very nearly
straight, not S-shaped. The subt«rminal lines are more distinct, no-
where angulated, regularly lunulate between the nervules; the termi-
nal and subterminHl spaucs, especially on internal margin bordering the
first subterminal and most distinct line, are largely mixed with whitish,
somewhat nacreous scales. The sub- triangulate spot on the middle of
internal margin is smaller, more contrasted with the general color of
the wing and preceded by slightly roseate scales.

The posterior wings show a very distinct large roseat« spot on inter-
nal margin, covering anal angle; the blackish spot within internal mar-
gin is somewhat rounded, much smaller than in P. gatellitia; the sub-
terminal interspaceal black maculations are not obscured superiorly by a
large dark green shade band, but* continued distinctly to costa. The
external margin is less excavate than in P. mtellitin, compared with
which the Cuban species generally is more olivaceous and paler.

One specimen wants the suh-triangular dark patch on internal mar-

P. satellitia never has the pink an^ patch, which latter I am of opi-
nion is of greater value as a apecifio character than indicated by Mr.
Walker. It is constant in the four specimens before me, and perhaps

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there are more Hpeoiea than P. tatellttia aod P. Lgrann to be elinii-
Rat«d. Its abeeace in GrameT'B ^ure oansea my only donbt, as to the
correctnesB of the synonymy I have adopted. If distinct from S. Ln-
eaon. Cram, the present species is, so &r as I can see. andescribed nntil
now, and may in this eTOnt be called PhUampelun poHieatvs.

Fonr specimens, % % 9 $ . Bzp. % 3 .85, 9 4.25 inches. Length of
body % and $ 2.00 inches.
I 5«6i(<i(.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Est. 8oc. Phil.
Wumher 84 Pofy'x MSS. Catnlogue.

FUUmpclu labnuoa.

^ftinz labnuac, Linn., Hus. Lad. Ulric 35S. {IfH.)
" " Fab,, Sp. Idb. II, 152, 6T, (1781.)

" " Cram.. Exat II, 133, FI. 1S4, flg. A. (ITSS.)

" " Tab., Ent. 8jst III, 1, 37T, 66. (1793.)

Argent lahrutea, Htlba., Veri. Bchm. p. 134. (1816.)
PKOampdu* UArutae, Walk., C. B. M. Part VIII, p. 17B. (ISie.l
" " Burm. Bph. Brai. p. S. (18SA.)

■' " ClBin., Byn. N. A. 8. p. IfiB. (18S9.)

H-8., Corr. Blatt p. 58. (18B5.)

Two specimens, % and 9 . Exp. % 4.60, 9 4.80 inches. Length of
body % 9 2.50 inches.

Habitat.— Q^xh», (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soo. Phil.
Number 218 Pofy'i MSS. Catalogue.

FAOHTLIA, BoieduTsl.
Paekylia FiMM.

Marian, Ina. Surim. PI. 33. (1719.)

^hijix Fieu», Linn., 8791. Nat. p. SOO. No. IS. (1766.)

" " Clerck, loon. PI. 49, fig. !.

" " Drury, 111, Biot. ln». II, 44, PI. 26, fig. 1. (1773-1

" " Fabrieius, Sp. Ins. II, 145, 16. (1781.)

" " Cramer, III, 88, PI. 246, fig. E. (1782.)

Piolui Ficta, Hubner, Yen. 8clim. 134. (1816.)
apKinx Orameri, West., Drury. (1837.) 1
Paekylia Ficua, Walker, C. B. H. VIII, 180. (1B56.)
Dtilepkila Fieui, Burni., 8ph. Brai. p. 5. (1858.)

Cluxroeampa Cramtri, M4n. En. An. Acad. Petr. Part II, p. 133. (t8&T.)
Packylia Ficus, Clem.. Bya. H, Am. 8ph. p. 158. (1SS9,)

" " H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 58. (1885.)

Two specimens, % and 9 . Exp. % 4.50, 9 6.00 inches. I.ength of
body, % 2.30, 9 2.40 inches.

flii6i((/(.— Cuba, (Poey.) CoH, Ent. Soc. Phil.

Number 289 Poey'i MSS. Catalogtte.

Professor Bunneiater has apparently had two species before him, of
which the second, to Judge by his brief remark — "einer Kleineren. viel

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heller gefdrbten, ohne die Quorbinden auf den Oberfliigeln " — caanot
be referred lo the following epecJee, and is possibly aadesoribed.

After conpariog Dr. Clemeas' deacription Jour. Acad. Nat. Sot.
Phil. p. 159 (1865), with the preseat materia), I am of opinion that
the Texan specimen belongs to a distinct species, in which case the
name of Fmhi/lia Lyncea, proposed for it by Dr. Clemens in thb event,
will be" retained.

Faekylia inomata.

Sphinx Ficut, Cram., IV, 216, PI. 391, Sg. D. (1T82.)
Not i^hinx Ficua, Linn., Syat. Nat. p. 800. (1T86.)
Charocampajiaia, MSn. En. An. Acad. Petr. Part II, p. 133. (1867.)
FaehS^ia inornata, ClemeaB, 8yn. N. Ara. 8ph. p. 159. (1859.)
No. 3 (Paehylia,) H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. S8. (1885.)
Allied lo the foregoing, but a stonier, very dark brown, almost nnico-
lorous species, of less expanse.

The anterior wings show a faint median costal paler shade, similarly
shaped lo the very distinct costo-apical patch, and enclosing the discal
dot. The posterior wings are entirely dark brown, conoolorous with
anterior pair, with undefinedly darker marginal borders; anal angle
tipped with white projecting scales.

It is possible, that Mr. Walker has united specimens of P. inornata^
with his material under P.ficu», to which the present species is nearly
allied, bnt from which I consider it perfectly distinot. Cramer's later
figure, I think, refers to the present species, and not to P. ficus.

One male specimen. Ezp, % ,3.80 inches. Length of body 2.0U
inches.
.ffaJtta/.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.
XumUr 91 Poeg'i MSS. Oalalogue.

t. Walker, C. B. M. Part VIII. p. 1»«. (1856.)
" " Clemeaa, Byn. N. Am. Sph. p. 159, (1869.)

" " H-S., Corr. Blfttt p. S8. (1886,1

Three specimens, % ^ $ . Kxp. % 3.20, ? 3.60 inches. Length of
body % and 9 , 1.80 inch.

H<ibitat.~G\x\>t., (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.
Number 9:J Poej/'n MSS. Catalogue.

All the abdominal segments above, are narrowly banded anteriorly
with black ; this is seen m<»% plainly when the abdomen is bent, ex-
posing in this position more of the sar&oe of the terminal segments.

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AKBULTX, Boisduval.
Ambnlrz itrifilii.

f^kinx ttrigilil, Linn., Msot. I, 53S.

•• •■■ Drury, Exot. Ins, I, t% PI. !8, fig. 4. (1T73.|

Fabr., Sp. In*. II, 1«, S!. (1T81.)
" " Cram., Pap. Eiot. 11, U, PI, 108, fig. B. (1782.t

" " Fabr. Eiot. BysL III, 1, 364, 28. (1793.)

i*o/w " Hubn.. Veri. flchm. p. 134. (1818.)
AyiUitUyx " Walker, C. B. H. Part VIII, p. 121. (18611.)
" " Burm., Bph. Brai. p. 14. (ISi9.)

" " Clemeng, &ja. S. Am. Sph. p. 1S2. (1868.)

" " H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. ST. (I82S.)

Two Bpeciraeos, % and $ . Exp. I 4 00, J 4.30 inches. IfeQj^h of
body 1.75 inch.'

Babiiat.^Cnhsi, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. 8oc. Phil.
Number 542 Poey'n AfSS. Catalogue.

Ambnlyz Ouiuan*.

Spkinx Oawxew, Stoll, PI. 3&, fig. 3. (1787.)
Ampfyptenu Oanaacui, Hdbn., Veri. Sobm. p. 133. (ISIS.)
An&als/x GanaecM, Walk., C. B. M. Part VIll, p. 121. (1868.)
" " Burm., 8ph. Brai. p. 15. (1856.)

" , " Clem., Sph. Jf. Am. 8ph. p. IS3. (1859.)

" " H-8., Corr. Blatl. p. S7. (18BS.)

Two specimens, i aod $ . Exp. % 3.75 incheA. Length of'body 1.6U

IDCh.

ffnM(a/.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent.'Soc. Phil.

Number 96 Pofi/'i MSS. VatahMpie.

This genua shows certain remote affinides to Smerinthm. Amplgp-
lerut Hiibn., {An^lj/pteruis Walk., Clemens) contains discordant ma-
terial, while A. Gunagcue is regarded evidently as the typical specie))
of his genus by HUbner.

FBIUDOBPHIirX, Burmeiiter.
pMudDipkinx Tetrlo.

SpKinx Titrio, Ltnn., MaDt. 1, 93B (Burm.)

" " Fabr., 8p. Ins. II, 146, 27. (1781.)

" Baiirukal, Cram., Eiot. Ill, BO, PI, 248, fig. F. {1782.)

" Titrio, Fabr., Mani, Ins. II, 96, 30. (1787.)

■' " " Ent. SjBt. Ill, 1, 386, 32. (1793.)

Si/loietu Saidrubal, HUbn., Verz. Bchm. p. 139. (1818.)
Sphinx Aidrubal, Fo«y, Cent. Lepid. (1832.)
MacroHla Batdmbal, Walker, C. B. M. Fart YIII, p. !03. (!8i>0.)
Pteudoaphito: Tetrio, Burmeialer, Spb. Brai. p. 8. (1868.)
Macroaila. Hoidruhal, Clem., S;n. N. Am. Sph. p. 161. (1859.)
3£acroeUa Aadrubal, H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 69. (1886.)
The present species is amply generioally distinct from either Ant-
phtmj/x or Sphinx. Prof. BurmeJster has described the larva of 1'.

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Mrio, and it has been beautifully figured with the pupa by Prof. Poey
(Decade II). The structural features of the immature stages of this
species merit attention. With regard to the synonymy I have adopted,
I refer to the pamphlet of Prof. Burtneister, who has given very inter-
esting details respecting the species, 5Ir. Walker cites Sphinx Pin-
mierue, Merian, Ins. Sur, PI. 5, as a aynonyni to Sphinx Tttno, Fab.
I have not seen the edition of Mdlle. Merlan's work, which is probably
that of 1771 (Hagen'a Bib. Ent.), in which this is given. I quote here.
from Prof. Poey's Cent. Lepid., some interesting facts respecting the
larva of this species :

" La chenille est remarqnnble par une queue tr^longue et tnembra-
nense. Elle est tr^-vorace, et mange les feuilles d'nne esp^ce Je fran-
ohipanier {Plumeria), connu dans le pays sous le nom de Lirin, dont
la flenr sert & faire des confitures. Kile devore anssi une partie des
brancbeH, qui sontremplies dun sue laiteus que Ton dit trSa ccrrosif,
mais qui ne fait aueun mal k I'insecte. On trouve la chrjsalide an pied
des buissons, nullenient enfouie sous terre, mais simplement recouverte
par une feuille, ou cachkt sous quelque morceau de brique, tels qu'on
en voit dans lea sucreries, autour des habitations ou I'arbre est cultiv^."

Cramer's figure of the imago is somewhat larger than the specimens
sent, and, nowithstanding the customary grossness which characterises
the figures of the Dutch Entomologist, is quite recognizable.

Two specimens, % and 9 . Eip. % 4.00, { 4.80 inches. Length of
body % 2.10, 9 2.40 inches.

Habitat.— Cxiha., (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.

Nutnher 537 Poei/'s MSS. Gutalogue.

The elimination of the present genus by Prof. Burmeister, evinces
acumen ; it is confounded by .Mr. Walker and Dr. Clemens, under the
generic term Macrosila, with dissonant material.

AHPHOBTX Poey.

Amply distinct from Sphinx, Linn., the present genus, erected by
Prof. Poey in 1832, has been misconceived by subsequent authors, and
the two gigantic species A. AnUeue, and A. Duponchel, separated by
Prof. Poey, have been confounded together.

The character insisted on by Prof Poey in his generic phrase, is the
peculiar conformation of the well developed third palpal article, which
extends nakedly beyond the head in the form of a corneous booklet.
Were the material sufficiently large, I should have endeavored to have
given, from diseectional studies, further details respecting this genus,
which 1 am quite confident is of independent value. Under the genus

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Sphinx, I have ezplaiaed folly the eyiioiijiiiioal relation it bears to
Maerotila, Boisd.

B8, (1719.)

Sphinx Antteus, Drnry, 111. Ezot Ihb. II, 43, PI. 16, Ag. 1. (1T73.)

Sphituc Jatropha, Pfttr., Bp. Ina. II, 143, 18. (1T81,)

Spkittic Mtdor, Cramer, Ezot IV, SIS, Fl. 394, fig. A. (IT6S.)

iS^AtM JatTopfm, Fftbr., But. Syst. Ill, 1, S8S, 22. {IT83.)

Oocytaa Jatropfux, HUbner, Vera. Scbm. p. UO. (ISIS.)

Amphonyx Antaut, Poaj, Cent. Lepid. (1832.)

Maerotila Anitrtit, Walk., C. B. M. Fart Till, p. SDO. (185«.)

Sphinx JatrophiB, Burtu., Sph. Bru. p. 0. (ISSS.)

Maeronla Anicna, Clem., B}rii. N. Am. Bph. p. 182. (Igfit).)

Macroaita anfAmw, H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 69. (1885.)

Mr. Walker, and, to judge from his remarkB, also Dr. Clemens, have
oonfouaded this with the following species, from which it differa by
ite greater size, and in that the squamnutloD of the anterior wings on
the upper surface is of a decided brown tinge, destitute of all greenish
scales whatever. The anal angle of the posterior wings is less acutely
produced than in A. duponchel. It is possible that under Sphina^
Medor, Cramer, pi. 094, fig. A, the following impedes is intended, but
the inferiority of Cramer's figures prevents certainty in a matter of such
very closely allied species. With regard to Sphinx Hyda^ms, Cramer,
(S- Hydrarpus, Clem.) Cramer says : " On en trouve une variety qui
n'ont point les six taches blanches sur la partie pc6t6rieure du Corps ;
peutetre que ces demiers sout les Males, car la Figure que nous donnons
iei represeate une Fenjelle." I iacliue to the belief, having both sexes
ef A. Antseai and A. Duponchel before me, that Cramer's figure refers
to a third, closely allied species, which may be called Amphonyx Ht-
SA8PES. I have seen but one figure of Cramer's under the name of S.
JHedor, and in the description no mention is made of the sex. If a
second exists, as is to be inferred from what Dr. Clemens states, it has
escaped my research. The description of S. Medor leaves it to be un-
derstood, that it is the species referred to as a variety of S. Hyd<i»puK \a
the description of the latter in Vol. l,p. 31, while the name of the first
species with the terminal lateral white miiculations, is changed to >S'.
Hydntppi* a rendering I have adopted as the more correct.

Two specimens, % and 9 . Exp. % 5.75, 9 7.50 inches. Length of
body % 3.00, 9 8.25 inches.

iffi6t(a(.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.

KumUr 547 Po'i/'t MSS- Cafalogw.

• " Hydaipes," Humboldt, Coamol. Vol. S, p, 538, Bohn'« Edit. 1849.

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Amphmrx OsponalMl.

Anphonyx Duponehtl, Foe;, Cent Lepid. (ISSI.)
2iaenmla Anteeut, (partini) Walk., C. B. M. p. 200. (18S6.)

" " " Clem., Syn. N. Am. Sph. p. 10!. (1869.)

Not MaeroaOa Antatu, Drury, III. Exot. loi. II, *3, PI. SS, tg. I. (1773.)

Jfoeromla dtyKnichel, H-8., Corr. Blatt, p. SB. (ISOfi.)

Differs from the foregoing in that the aquammation of the anterior

wings, on the upper surface, is largely greenish. Compared with A.

AnltEiu, this smaller species has quite a distinctive appearance, while

my ezaminatioDB have afforded me but the green powdery scales which

cover the anterior wings on their apper surface, as well as the head,

thoracic region and abdomen, as a strong specific character, the orna-

mentatioa being remarkably similar in both species.

Two specimens, % and 9 . Exp. % 4.10, 9 5.30 inches. Length of
body % 2.30, 9 2.35 inches.

ff«fii(a/.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.
Number 214 Foe^'g MSS. Catahgae.

Amphont/x cUientia», Poey, (Sphinx ctuenliia, Cramer), is not in-
olnded in the present collection, while Dr. Crundlach appears to have
sent it from Cuba to Dr. Herrich-Schieffer.

BPHIHX, LinDtBUB.

While the European Sphinx convolruli, and Sphinx ISgvxtri, must
be considered the more typical forms of this geuus, I am aware that
the material T here inclade tinder Sphinx, appears susceptible of dis-
tinctive generic separation. The generic term Macroglia Boisd., used
by Mr. Walker and Dr. Clemens for certain of the species, should have
the preference over Proloparce Bnrm., already mentioned in this No-
tice, and which contains such discordant material and seems so poorly
conceived that it is better entirely neglected. The generioallj per-
fectly distinct species composing the genera Ptewdosphhue Burm., and
Amphimyx Poey, have, however, been confounded by both Mr. Walker
and Dr. Clemens, as congenerical with Sphinx ruetica and allies, while
the species composing the two former genera, are apparently regarded
by these authors as typical of the genus Macroxila. Amphimyx Poey,
erected in 1832, has priority over any of Boisduval's MSS. genera
made public by Mr. Walker in the Catalogue of the British Museum,
and contains perfectly homogenous material, and is, moreover, more
scientifically correct and better conceived than Marroaila. By amend-
ing MarrotUii, and including under that generic name, the first three
species of Sphinx here enumerated, adding Sphinx quinquemanihtta

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Haw., Sphirtj; ochut* Klug, and perhapB others — which will be under-
Btood from the material I now indicate — a genus appears susceptible of
erection, which would contain consonant material, very different from
that thrown together under Protoparce, by Prof. Burmeister, and, in a
leea degree perhaps, from Macrotiia of Mr. Walker and Dr. Clemens.
It seems, however, sufficient for the purposes of this Notice, in con-
sideration also of the circumscribed material I have here studied, but
to insist on the needed revision, which should be entered into by careful
dis&eotional study, and to state, that, so far as we can judge from au-
thors, the species (with the exceptions already noted and adopted under
Pteujioephinx and Amphtmyx) separated under Macrotiia and Proto-
parce, appear to differ by an entire ext^^rational development, rather
than by an ultimate structural divergence, from the more typical Euro-
pean forms of Sphinx.

BpMnz niitUa.

Sphinx ru»iica. Fab., Sp Iqb. II, US, 28. (1781.)

" " Cram., Pap. P»p. Eiot IV, 21, PI. 301, flg. A. (1T82.)

" " Fab., ManL Ins. II, 96, 81. (178T.)

" Fabr., EnL Syst. Ill, 1, 868, 33. (1793.)

" chionantki. Abbot t Smith, Idb. Oeorg. I, 67, PI. 34. (1717.)
Ackeraatia ehionanthi, Hubn., Vers. Schm. 139, I19S. (1816.)
Oxyliut ratHea, HUbn., Veri., Bchm. 140, 1498, (1S16.)

" " Haba., Exot. Sch. Lap. Ill, Pond. 2, fig. 1, 2. (1824.)

2facro«iia ratlica, Walk., C. B. M. Part VIII, p. 199. (1856.)
Protoparee ruatiea, Burm., Bpb. Brai. p. 7. (IB&S.)
Maerosila rugtioa, Clem., Sjn. S. Am, Bph. p, 163. (1869.)
l^hinx ruitiea, H-S., Corr. Blatt, p. &9. (18SS.)
Two specimens, % and S . £xp. % 4.50, 9 5.00 inches. Length of
body, f, and $ 2.20 inches.

.flaWiof.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. But. Soc. Philad.
Number 75 Pbe^'s ifSS. Catalogue.

The specimens do not differ specifically from those that I have exam-
ined from different parts of the United States.

• The Bjnouom; of thia Bpeoiet is as follows :

KACBOBILA, emond. mihi.
XsctoiUa oehni.

Sphinx oehva. King,, Seue Bchm. Heft. 1, p. 4, Plato 3, fig. 2. (183B.)
MacroMla itutila, Clem., SjQ. S. Am. Sph. p, 184. (1859.)
SabiliU.—fieiico, (Klug.) Honduras, (Clemeus.)

Curiously enough Mr. 'WalkeT does not mention tha present apeeies, though
quoting Sphinx Typhan, Klug (Fhilampelua Tjphou, Talk.), figured on the
same Plate. Dr. Clemens' ejnouym ia doubtless owing to this omiuion in the
British Museum Lists. ,

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■pUaz Mtfollak.

Sphinx Carolina, Linn, Una. I.ud. Clric, US. (ITBl.)
" " Drory, III. Exot. Idb. I, 53, PI. ib, fig. 1. (1770.)

" " Fabr., 8p. Idb. II, U*, SI. (17S1.)

Pabr., Mant. Ina. II, «*, Si. (1787.)
" Fabr., Ent, 8y«t. Ill, 1, 383, S5. (1T8S.)

" " Abbot i Smith, Nat. Hist. Ins. Georg. 1, 65, PL 83. (17117.)

FUtgeihmliui earehna, Htlbner, Yen. Bchm. p. UO. (1816.)
Mandrica obteUTa earoHTia, HUbn., Eioi Bah. Sphing. III. (1S!1.)
^tkiTix earolina, Hurii, Cat. N. Am. Bph. p. 14. (ISSfl.)

" " Walk., C. B. M. Part Till, p. JIB, {1856.)

HaeronlaMrolina, Clem., 8yn. y. Am. Sph. p. 106. (1860.)
BphiTtx earoliTia, H-S., Corr. Blatt, p. &9. (1865.)

One male spec imea. Exp, % ,4.1U inches. Length of body ,2. 00 id ohes.
ffal{tnl.—Cu\>»., (Poey.") Coll. Ent. Soc. PhiUd.
Number 215 Poej/'» MSS. Catalogue.

The specimea sent does not differ apecifioally ^m material which I
have examined from different parts of the United States.

Bpkinx giagnlaU.

Bphinx irinir^ta, Linii., Hub. LeBk. Se, 103. (Walker.)
'■ " Fabr., 8p. Ins. II, 151, M. (1781.)

" " Fabr., Maot. Ins. II, ST, 53. 1787.)

Fabr., Knt 8y«t. Ill, 1. (17»3.)
" " Abbot t Smith, InB. Oeorg. I, 63, PL 12. (17V7.)

Bphinx Dnirai Donovan, Brit Ins. XIV, pi. 100. (1813.)
Affnva cinffulaUu, HQbn., Vera. Sohm. UO, 1S07. (1816.)

" " HUbn., Ezot Bchm. Lep. II, Sph. III. (ISM.)

J^inx eingulata, Harris, Cat. S. Am. Bph. p. (188S.)
" " Walk., & B. M. Part VIII, p. S15. (1858.)

" " Burm., Bph. Brax. p. 12. (I85B.)

Macroglia dngulata, Clem., Byo. N. Am. Sph. p. 184. (1859.)
Sphinx dngulaia, H-S., Corr. Blatt, p. 59. (1865.)

Two specimens, % and $ . Exp. % and $ 4.40 inches. Lengtb of
body, % 2.20, 9 2.00 inches.

i(«6i(<K.— Ouba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.
Namber 216 Poey's MSS. Cataloffwe.

The speoimenB sent do not differ speoifieally iiroro those I hare ex>
amiaed from different parts of the United States,
■phlu BiOBtM. (Plate 1, Ag. i%.)

BphiTur Branta, Drury, IlL Ezot InB. II, 5S, PI. », fig. S. (ITTO.)
Not Sphinx BroTita, Boiad. Bp. Oen. Plate 15, flg. 6. (ISM.)
Bphin^ SronUi, H-8., Corr. Blatt, p. 6B. (1866.)

The Bpecimens sent by Prof. Poey more nearly correspond to Ihnry's
figure of Sphinx Bronte*, than any species as yet known to me. I
hftve already stated that Sphinx Broatet of Boiad. is not that of Drory,
but is Ceratomui repentinut Clem., a species of oommon occurrence in

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the United SUtee. This Utter species differs throughout from Dmry's
figure, and from the inseot I here descrihe and fig^e, &ni which must
approach Drnry's very closely, if it be not, as I conjecture, identioal
with it. As to what Mr. Walker int«nda ander Marroti/a Brtmtet, I
am ignorant. The small head, the roanded external margin of ante-
rior wings, with the internal angle not esserted, the three black inter-
spaceal dashes, are all characters, in addition te numerous other, less
prominent, which quickly distlDguish C. repentinue from Drory's figure
and the inseot I now describe.

Head large and prominent; eyes salient; thorax and abdomen hardly
so stout as in Dmry's figure, which exceeds my specimens in expanse
and general site. The markings of the anterior wings coincide with
Drury's figure, except that the disoal spot is white, the brown subter-
minal space is narrower and paler. The external margin is straight,
internal angle exserted. Terminally there is a series of Y-shaped black-
ish marks on the veins, which is characteristic of Dmry's figure and
very different from 0, repentinv* in this respect; the course of all the
transverse lines and markings are quite alike in Drury's figure and my
gpeoimens.

The posterior wings differ from Drury's figure, but not perhaps so
greatly, that the latitude we may allow for the roughness of the figure
will not cover it. Before anal angle there is a cinereous patch, as in
Drury's figure. Medially the wing is crossed by three propinquitous
dark lines, with a paler series of scales between the first and second
line. In Drury's figure these lines are not indicated, while a whitish
band is drawn, ondulating, across the wiug. Conld I but reconcile this
disparity, I should be oonfideot that I bad Drury's species before me.

I have at least shown that Dr. Clemens' C. repetitinve is a good spe-
cies, and should not be confounded with Drury's S. bronlei. while I
have less evidence te prove that the present is the species that Drury
intended. Dmry's description does not allude to the whitish band on
the inferior wings, and, while doubtful on the whole, whether it be worth
while to try and identify a figure of bo indifferent an execution, I pro-
pose that the present species be considered as the species intended by
Drury, ad interim at least, till one better suited be found, in which lat-
ter event I propose for the present species the name of Sphinx cubentii.

TwQ specimens, % and { . Exp. £ S,50, 9 3,60 inches. Length of
body, % and 5 1.80 inch.

ifaiifdf.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

mimbtr 86 Poey'i XSS. Oatalogue.

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I have alluded elsewhere to what I siippoee la an error on the
part of Dr. Herrioh-Sohieffer, in referriaji; hia epeoimens, which I have
every reason to believe are Bpecifioallj identical with mine, aa oorre-
sponding with Boisduval's figure, Sp. G«a. Fl. 16, fig. 6.

fpUnx affliota, hot. ip.

Yellowish-olivaceoUB-cinereous, when fresh perhaps with a greenish
tinge, which has however quite disappeared, if it existed, from the
single specimen I describe. All the transverse lines darker, very nar-
row, distinct and continued. At extreme base some white scales. Foar
lines from the costa before the dtacal spot, very irregularly dentate and
undul&Ce, the third, at the sub-median nervare, joining the fourth.
Discal spot white, surrounded with a dark encircling line, small, sub-
reniform in shape. Beyond the median apace, three propinquitous,
oblique, trembled lines, run from oosta to internal margin, slightly pro-
jected below the oosta, the interspace between the second and third
paler. These lines are interrupted with a few black scales inferiorly.
A 8ubf«rminal, widely and regularly undulate line, which is sub-obsolete
to costa, before which it is joined by the apical streak, the latter lined
above by a few white soales. An obsolete terminal line, showing a few
white scales. Fringes dark, narrowly interrupted with whit« between
the nervules.

Posterior wings pale blackish at base, beyond which they are whitish.
A very intense, distinct, black demi-band, crosses the middle of the
wing, furcate, sending ofi' at the center, inwardly, a black dash, which
is not continued to costa. Beyond the median black hand, is a pale
interspace, succeeded by a narrow, black, somewhat undulate, subtermi-
nal band, widening between the nervulea to costa. Terminal space
shaded with yellow-olivaceous scales. Fringes white, narrowly inter-
rupted with olivaceous at the extremity of the veins.

Under surface olivaceous brownish. Anterior pair crossed by three,
distinct, undulate, brownish lines ; beyond, a subterminal brownish
»ihiide band, furcate at costa; disc covered with brownish scales, sprinkled
with olivaceous. Posterior wings whitiah at anal angle and along inter-
nal niargio, crossed medially by two distinct black bands, of whibh the
outer, the least distinct, joining the inner on medio-poaterior nervule,
dentate on the nervulea. A subterminal, broad, brownish, shade band.

Head, sufficiently prominent, less so than in the foregoing species ;
eyes, moderately salient; antennee, long and stout. The squammation
of the head and thoracic region is nnicoloroos with anterior wings,
without markings; on the metathorax laterally, a blackish aub-tuft.

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Abdomen, paler thaa thorax, with lighter lateral scales sarronoded with
blaok, fonniD|^ more complete maonlations towards the base ; beneath
paler, somewhat brownish oinereoua. L^;b clothed with yellowish oli-
vaueooB scales ; tarsi annulate; posterior tibiee strongly spurred. Maz-
illee moderate.

Kesembles Sphinx PampMliitc, Cram. PI. 394, fig. E.; if we allow
great latitude to the figure, we may perhaps regard it aa the species
intended. Cramer's figure has the posterior wings nearly all blaok,
while the general color is much as in S. affiUta. The course of the
transverse lines on anterior wings, differs in detail.

One male specimen. Esp. 3.60 inches. Length of body, 1.60 inch.

SaiiVa(.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

mimbef 85 Poeff-i MSS. Oatalogae.

In the shape of the wings this species somewhat nearly resembles
iS*. repentifius, while the head and eyes are larger, more salient, and
the general coloration very difierent and peculiar. Independent of
these the ornamentAtJon, though displaying a somewhat similar pat-
tern, is quite distinct.

The difierent species I have here finally alluded to, and already
vaguely characterized as cinereous, roughly -scaled species of Sphinx-,
will need a generic revision j provisionally, these are better referred to
the typical genus of the family.

Xrinnjlt Csieni.

^Mnx Oaieas, Cram., II, p. *2, PI. 126, fig. P. (17T9.)

" " Fabr., Bp. Ins. II, 151, 49. (IT8I.)

Thryxta Oiieus, HQbner, Yen. Schm. 13T. (1816.)
Aneayx Caicua, Walt, C. B. M. VIII, p. 228. (1866.)

" " Clem., Byn. N. A. 8ph. J. A. H. B. Phil. p. 17". (18S9.)

" " H-8., Corr. Bl. p. 60. (1865.)

The external margin of the anterior wings is entire, not denticulated.
Cramer's figure is quite recognizable, his best in the genus perhaps,
while the specific name is hable to some confusion, since there is ano-
ther species called Oacm by the same author, Plate 46, fig. E, (Dilfi-
phonota Vacus Burm.) belonging to the same genus, though but dis-
tantly resembling the present species.

Two specimens, % and ? . Exp. % 2.80, 2 3.00 inches. Length of
body, % and 9 , 1.70 inch.

ffabitat—Cahs-, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soo. PhU.

Number 95 Poey's MSS. Catalogw.

Misled by a certain correspondence, which the modified omamentatitm

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of the present species bears to D^ephUn /tiwniiVa,— Httboer, dovbtlaflB
without antc^tieal acqoKiDtance with £. (Mtcut, hu regarded it u oon-
genericftl vith the European species.

Srianyii ZUa.

^tnz EUo, Linn., Sjat. Nat. 800, 13. (ITM.)

" " Drury, 111. Eiot. Ins. I, 48, pi. 27, flg, S. (ITTS.)

" Fttb., 8p. Ins. II, U3, IT. IITPI.)
" " Cram., Pap. Exot, IV, 24, 301, fig. D. (1T82.)
Srinnyii Silo, Ililbner, Ver>e<ch. p. 139. (ISIS.)
Bpkita SUv, H&rriB, Cat. TS. Am. 8ph. p. 2»T (IT) No. 11. (1S3T.>
Anceryx EUo, Walk., C. B. M. VIII, p. 2a-». (186B.)
DilophfMeta EUo, Burm., Byet. Ueb. Bph. Brai. p. 13. (1868.)
Anceryx EUo, Clem., Byn. N. Am. Sph. p. ITS. (1859.)
'• H-8., Corr. Bl. p. St. (1886.)

Two specimeoB, % and 9 . Kxp. % 3.00, 9 3.60 inohes. Length ol'
bodjl 1.80, 9 2.00 inches.

£fc6-fai.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.

Jfumber 221 Po'-^s MSS. Catalogt^.

The female has the anterior wings evenly aad entirely cinereons, all
markings — except tfae terminal and subterminal arcuated interspaoeal
row§ of blackish dote, which are nearly obsolete — are entirely wanting.
Cramer's fignre is very defective, and barely recoguiEable.

XriBnTii rlmoia. nov. sp. (Plate 2, fig. 1, % .)

Anceryx xyran. Walker, C. R M. VIII, p. MS. (1856.) f
Not j^Atnz Myron, Cram., IV, 23, pi. 301, fig. E. (1T82.)
AneeryxaeyriHif H-S., Corr. Bl. p. SB. (18flS.)

Anterior wings cinoreooB, traversed by brown, irregularly undulate,
zig-tag lines. Extreme base at costs brown, with two blackish brown,
short, broad, dashes, the upper immediately below the costa, the lower
parallel, and iiDoiediBtely below the subcostal aervure. A pale cinere-
ous space succeeds, projected nearly to the extremity of the disoal cell
at the middle of the wing, traversed by two faint, undulating, oblique,
brown lines, Ituited exteriorly by a distinct, slightly undulating, brown
line, which is strongly marked inferiorly to internal margin, and runs ob-
liquely from costa to discal cell, thence inversely very obliquely to inter-
nal margin, which It joina near the base of the wing, directly below the
coato-baaal dashes. A second, similar brown line to the one last men-
tioned, runs shortly parallel, separating below the third m. nervule,
thence running straightly to internal margin, thus leaving a cinereous,
somewhat triangular space on internal margin. The wing, between
these lines and beyond, is shaded with brown. No discal dot. An in-
terrupted, costal, cinereous space, beyond which, three undulate, brown
lines, of which the outer very faint, all very plainly marked at coet«.

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snd ramiiiig obliquely, Bligfatly amuted, to internal margiD, the middle
one most diatiiiot, and mnaing eloeeiy parallel to the seeoad brown line
mentioned above at interaal mai^n, the latter line apparently joined to
the inner tine at about the middle of the yriag.

These fine transverse lines form a figure which somewhat resembles
a sprawling K. A blackiah-brown, linear dash, in the interepaoe be-
tween the first and second median nerrules at base. A oinereona shade
spreads from the oosta, where it ia narrow, outwardly to ezteroal ma^n
above the second m. nervule. Apical space, limited inwardly by this
shade, of a brownish hue; nerrules cinereous with brown spots; two'
dark brown, disconnected, msoulur sbadelinee, of which the ante-apical
is the most distinct ; fringes cinereoos.

Posterior wings, bright yellow at base, with very wide blackish mar-
ginal banda, traversed by two black lines, which are more distinctly per-
oeirablewheu crossing a cinereous patch at anal angle; costa very pale ;
fringes cinereous.

Under surface of both pair of wings rather pale brownish, suffused
oentrally with a warmer shade, and traversed by regularly undulate-
dentate, darker shade lines, of which one is very distinct and prominent.

Head above, and collar, brownish-cinereous; thorax, cinereous, with
blackish median line ; abdomen, cinereous, with two dorsal, interrupted,
black Hoes, and with broad, segmentary, black, lateral demi-bands.

The female resembles the male ; the transverse lines on the anterior
wings are medially more obscured by pale brownish, and more obsolete ;
subcost&Ily, the apex is whitish.

Exp. % AM inches. Length of body I.61) inch. Exp. $ 3.20 inches.
Ijength of body 1.60 inch.

^a6iVa/.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soe. Phil.

Jfumf>fr 88, Pbe^'s MSS. C<italogue.

This is impossibly to be referred to Cramer's figure E, PI. 301, which
is a caricature of any lepidopterous insect, I imagine. Dr. Herrich-
Sofateffer doubtfully refers this species* to Cramer's " »<^i-o»," while
E, rimota is apparently the species so determined by Mr. Walker,
Until an origiual for Cramer's figure be found, if found it can be, wyroji
may be placed on the lists as a doubtful species, while the grossnees of
the figure will probably lead to the rejection of the specific name.
T do not enter into the disagreements of the present species with Cra-
mer's figure, for the reason that I can find no striking resemblance be-

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tweea tbem to make it worth while to institute the oompuieoD, the
figure remtDdiDif one equally of any epeeies of the Kenui, or indeed any
'- Sphinx " with yellowieh BeoondarieH. It would he an act of injnstioe
to Datnnlisis, were Bpeoiea referred as int«nded by earlier anthore on
grounds, even mnoh more tenable, than those whioh authorise me to de-
scribe the present as a new species. Prof. Poey writes, respecting an
vnpablisbed HSS. name for this species : " H-8. 1'a rfau de Paris sons
ie nom de Mnechiu."

IriniiTii Alope.

apMinx Alope. DiHTy, Tol. I, fiS, pi. S7, fig. 1. (ITTO.)

" " Cram., 1, 23, pi. 801. flg, Q. (1782.)

Erinnyif Alope, Hubn., Ten. 8cliin. p. 139, So. U»2. (ISIB.)
Anctryx Alope, Valk., C. B. M. Fart Till, p. 225. (ISM.)
ZHtopHwiote Alope, Burro., Bph. Brat p. 13, (185(1.)

Anetryx Alupt, Clam., &ja. N. A. Bph. J. A. N. 8. FhIL p. ITT. (lUS.)
" " H-8., Corr. Blatt. p, 90, (ISflS.)

The specimeDH accord Buffioiently well with the citations, as to pre-
vent any doubts of the correctness of the determination. The anterior
wings, in my specimens, are generally paler than in the original figures ;
this is noticeable particularly in the male, in which a paler shade ex-
tends along the lover half of the wing, from before the middle of inter-
nal ma^in, obliquely to external margin, lattor dentioulatod ; in the
female the wing is darker, ruore unioolorously btackiah-brown.

Two specimens, % and $ . Exp. i 3.60, 9 3.80 inches. Length of
body % and 9 , 2.00 inches.

Habitat.^CuhA, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.
Number 77, Poejf'i XHS. Catalogue.
■rinarli KwiaM*, noT. ip. (Plate 2, flg. 3.$.)

Anterior wings, deep blackish^brown, all the transverse tines sabob-
Bolete. A sub-triangular, subcoato-apioal, cinereous patoh; a diatiuotly
defined cinereous patoh at about the middle of internal margin, beyond
whioh the region within the internal angle is shaded with dull cinere-
ous scales, which show as pule margins to the subobsoleto, transverse,
subtermioal, undulating blackish lines; extornal margin denticulate;
nervoles, intorruptod narrowly with cinereous; at base of wing, a few
cinereous haire.

Posterior wings, dull reddish ferruginous, with a narrow, blackish,
shaded border; dull cinereous at anal angle, where a black line is appa-
rent; fringes, from anal angle along internal margin, whitish.

Under surtaoe, dull brownish ; base of both wings whitish, especially
posterior pair; discof sntorior pairvery distinctly covered with reddish
termginous, hairy scales ; costa at base, and towards the centre on pos-

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terioF wingB, irrorate with ciaereonB Boales; no mediaa darker eha<le
Unas M IQ A. oenoirw; sabtermiDal d&i^er flhade dentate, sabobaolete.

Head, and thoracic r«^<m above, very deep brown ieh-black ; on the
■Uas, anteriorly, a few cinereooB scales, which extend laterally on pro-
thoracic region. Metathorax, clothed with ferraginouB-oinereoua scales,
which extend centrally on the disc; thorax, bi-creeted.

Abdomen, above, black, banded with whitish hairs which margin the
segments posteriorly; dorsally, the scales are paler than laterally, form-
ing a lon^tudinal shade stripe. Legs, cinereous ; tibiae, darker.

Two specimens, £ and $ . Exp. % 3.40, ; 3.10 inches. Length of
body % 2.00 inches, $ 1.80 inch.

Habitat. — Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soo. Phil.

Number 78, Poey'x MSS. Catalogue.

Nearly allied to Erinnyit ixnotrue, Gram. sp. The anterior wings are
especially very similar. The pale ooeto-apical shade is longer, better
defined and paler; the one on internal margin is also more determinate
as to shape. The posterior wings are darker ferruginous than in E.
oenotrus, and the external margin is not so deeply excavate before anal
angle. The tegolw in the latter species are largely brownish, and the
abdomen is the same shade, not black and not banded. The internal
mai^n of the anterior wings in E. Meriarue, is much more nndntate, and
the whole inaect much more robust. I do not know, from the short
notice, what species is intended by Dr. Herrich-Schieffer nnder the
name " lenottim," and to which a second species is said to be allied.
An inspection of Cramer's figure will show that ray determination of E.
uenolna, as a species with unhanded abdomen, is correct. Fig. G, PI.
301, Cramer, I refer, following Mt. Walker, to E. Ahpe.

Named in memory of Maria Sibylla Merian, the pioneer Entomolo-
p»t of the Eighteenth century.
XTinnyli fEnotroi. <Flat« 2, fig. 3, 9.)

Sphitm (Enolna, Cram., IV, H, pi. 301, fig. C, (1J83.)
Erinnyii (Enotrua, HUba., Van. Bchm. 139. (ISIB.)
Aticeryx (Enotmg, Walk., C. B. M. Part VJII, p. 227. (1856.)
DilopKomita CEiwtrva, Burm., Bph. Bras. p. H. (1856.)
Anceryx mnotnu, Clem., 8yn. W. A. Bph. p. ITT. (1869.)
(EnoifM, H-8., C. Bi, p. 5B. (1865.)?

Smaller than E. Merianm, more brownish, the transverse lines pltuner,
costal paler markings, more distinct. Abdomen, entirely brownish,
slightly margined with brighter scales on the segments. Prothorax,
and head above, blackish, bat the thoracic region above is mostly co-
vered with brownish hairs, concolorous with abdomen. Underneath,
the wings are crossed, medially and subterminoUy, with dark shade lines ;

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aa tke poeterior wings tlM awdian blackish shade iiQW are eqtedally
very distinct. On the upper surface, the anterior wings show a eeriee of
black dots in the interspaces, inereastng in else towards internal angle,
absent in the foregoing species; the internal margin of anterior wings
is straighter, and the external margin of posterior wings more exca-
vate before anal angle, than in E. J^erianm.

Two specimens, % and 9 . Exp. % 2.75, 9 3.10 inches. Length of
body % and 9 , 1.75 inch.

Babitae.—Cnh&, (Poey.) t^oll. Ent. Soo. Phil.

Mmbfr 93, Poei/'i MSS. Catalogue.

Erinsrii mBlaneholiea, n. a. (PUte 2, fig. i, f, .)

Anterior wings dark oinereoos in the female, mncfa shaded with
blackish-brown in the male, traversed by many confused, inconspicn-
ous lines. No paler patches at apes and on iaternal margin, are per-
ceptible, while the transverse lines are more distinat terminally, and
especially before internal angle, where they are margined with pale
cinereous, showing the ordinary ornamentation of the genus in dkis
respect; external margin denticulate.

Posterior wings, reddish-ferrugiuons, with rather narrow blackish
borders, the nervnlea within, touched with blaokish dots, much as in
the two preceding species ; external margin more excavate before anal
angle than in E. Meriante, much as in E. aeuotrus, whiob E. melon-
cholica more nearly approaches.

Under surface brownish, with ferra^nom scales on the disc of ante-
rior pair; posterior wings whitish at base, below costal region, along
internal margin, reddish over the discal regic»i. The under soriace
very generally resembles that of the two preceding species, while the
transverse median and subterminal dark shade bands, crossing both
pair of wings, are moat distinct in E. leiiolnu, in which Uie median, on
anterior pair, is more appreciably sinuate. In E melanehoHca the
inner (median) bands are less distinct, becoming macnlar, especially in
the female — in E. MeriaiiM the inner bands are obsolete and generally
imperceptible.

Thorax, bl-crested; head, and thoracic region above, brownish-black
in the male, in the female cinereons-blaok, paler laterally in both sexes,
tegulee with an interior cinereous stripe. Abdomen, paler brown, not
banded, very similar to that of E. osnotrvt, alike in color in both sexes.
The B^ments are fringed with mixed paler and darker hairs, and two
dona) longitudinal shade lines are very distinct. Underneath the ab-
domen is paler than in Mther E. Mertanse or E. venotrut.

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Two ^McimeDB, % sad ; : Bzp. % 3.00, 9 S.IO inches. Length of
body % 1.80, ?1.6U inch.

ffofiiVof.— Gaba, CPt>«y.) Coll. Ent. 80c. Phi!.

If umler 222, Pbeif' a MSS. Catalogue.

Tbis species is very confusedly marked, and difficnit to describe, ex-
cept by comparisoD with its allies E. Merianm, and E, oeaotrun. With
the latter it has a similar!^ of abdominal coloration and omanientAtioD,
while the generally paler primaries, the absence of the characteristic
paler patches, and differing ornameDtatlon of the tegulie, will separate it
from either of ite above mentioned allies. Somewhat as in E. Ello, the
% anterior wiuga show darker shades on the upper surface. I do not
rect^niie, from the incompleteness of Dr. Herrich-Schieffer's remarks,
either the present or the following species, in any of the specimens re-
ferred to, but not named, under this genns, in the pages of the Corres-
pondeni Blatt. Itissimilar, bnt larger, than frutn^ui^&jcura {Sphinx
abucura Fab.), a specimen of which I have not seen, but judging by a
figure, shown me by Mr. Calverley, it is sufficiently distinct to prevent
confusion, without adding ^rther to the comparative description.

■riniqrls pallida, n. B. (FUt« l.flg. B, 9.}

Sise moderate, approaching that of E. obicwra Fabr. sp. Entirely, very
pale, cinereous. Anterior wings, entirely pale cinereous, without mark-
ings, except a darker, transverse, very deeply undulate, subterminal line,
forming an arcuated series of subqbsolete blackish dots on the nervules;
a few darker scales along the first median nervnle.

Posterior wings, pate reddish-brown, with a narrow, darker, indefinite
border, becoming largely whitish before iDteroal mai^n at base, and at
anal angle.

Under surface of anterior pair, pale brownish ; posterior pair almost
entirely whitish ; both pair crossed by a subterminal darker shade band,
which is very indistinct. Head, and thoracic region, pale cinei
latter darker above, witbiut any markings on the tegula. Abdomen,
very pale cinereous, with two longitudinal, dorsal, darker, shade lincK.
Under surface almost whitish ; legs cinereous.

A single female specimen, Exp. ? 2.30 inches. Length of body
1.30 inch.

BabitaL—CahA, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.

Number 956, Poeg't 3fSS. Catalogue.

Approaches the following in coloration, but is a much larger, non-
gattat« species, with difierentJy colored secondaries, and generally paler.

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■riuTli ffottduli.

Araxryx juf/utoris, Valkec, C. B. M. Pwt VIII, p. MT. 18Wt.)
" " Clem. 8yn. N. Am. Sph. p, ITT. (186B.)

" " H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. «0. (ISU.)

Two Bpecimeos, % and ; . Exp. % 1.75 ioeli. Length of bod; .80
to l.UO inch.
floAiV.i/.— Cuba, (Poey.) Cotl. Eat. Soc. Philad.
Number 87 Paey't MSS. CaKdogut.

Mr, Walker, in traDSoribing the generic name ErinnyU, fW)m Hiib-
oer, bas altered it to Eriiutfft — for what reason I kDow not. As is the
case with HalUiihta and Ampl^pteriu, which read HcUeiidola and
Amhlypteru* in the Cat B. H., I preenme it u the reealt of a umpte
error of transoriptioa.

(BHOBAXU, Walker.
<BBManda Boetnlftraii.

iSnomnda noetu\formi*. Walk., C B. M. Fart Vtll, p. SSI. (IMtA.)
« " dam., Syn. N. A. Sph. p. 18T. ^1859.)

Four Specimens, % I $ 7 . Gxp. % and 9 , 1.40 inch. Length of
body, 5 and 9 , .70 inch.
Zr«W(u/.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Bnt. Sop. Philad.
Nvmhfr 835 of Po^'» MSS. Catalogue.

I eannot see any affinity to Perignw'a in this genns, composed of one
of the smallest species in the family, although the color of the posterior
wings recalls that genus. Their shape, and the general stmctnre of the
species, show that the position Mr. Walker has assigned to it, is approxi-
mately correct, while its position here, from want of intermediary genera,
is somewhat isolated.

I giye here a List of the species of Cuban Sphingidte, that I have
become autoptically acquainted with through the Collection of Prof.
Poey. I am led to believe that the latter embraces the great majority of
thespecieeof this family found on the Island of Cuba, since it is the resolt
of inveatigatioDS carried on fbr a series of years. It does not however
include all the known species taken on the Island, while the Numbers
119, 65:;, 834 and 1017, of Prof. Poey's MSS. Catalogue, remain un-
represented by specimens. In regard to the occurrence of a species of
*■ the genua Setia Walk., in Cuba, Prof. Poey writes : " (No. 834,) tkisbe
Fab., — Nous n'avons pas retrouv^ oette esp6ce; elle a 6t6 prise & la
HaTanae par M. Coulunges; je I'ai vue dans la oolleotion de M. Rip-
pert, ii Paris."

While I have given in the present article the Numbers of Prof.
Poey's HSS. Catalogue, nhioh accompanied the insects, I have not
thought it necessary to give the MSS. determinations of the Professor,

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in the synoDymy of the different apeciee, for the reasons that aamee are
wantingfor some of the species, and that those given are generally diacor-
dant with those that I have adopted, partly owing to tiie faot that but
three genera we recorded as valid ia the "Catalogue," vis: ^^ Amplw-
t>yx," "Sphinx" and " Macroglotmi " oerbunof the rest being regarded
as Bub-genera, while in no instance do I conclude this elaesifioatory
Tiew to be admisaable. I am, therefiofl, inclined to believe, that it
would but needlessly increase the synonymy, to quote these MS8.
determiuatioDB.

Respecting the Lepidoptera that have been errooeonsly referred to,
as occurring in C«ba, principally by M. Lucas, ia the work of M.
Ramon de la Sagra, Prof, Poey says : " Cette Liste (Poey's MSS. Cata-
ii^ue) renferme tout ce qu'il y a d'authentiqaemeDt connu sur les Ije-
pidoptSres de Cuba ; tons lee autres, ioi noa port^, doiveat Stre exclns ;
surtout ceux qua M. Lncaa, eutomoIogistA euineot (damnandse memo-
rise in rebus lepidopterologicis cubanis) & incloa dans I'ouvrage de M.
de U. Sagra."

This MSS. Catalogue of M. Poey, will be referred to in other artjcles.
now preparing on the Cuban representatives of other lepidopteromt
Families, included in the Professor'B Collection and in the possession
of this Society,

In regard to the critical remarks of Dr. Herri ch-8chseffer, adverse
to the course pursued by certain American Entomologists who have
included the West Indian lepidopt«rous &ana, with that of the United
States, I may say a few words. The lepidopterous fauna of the South-
ern States is yet but little known, but judging from what material I
have had access to, it Beems to me that the Faunal Map by Dr. LeCoute,
published by the Smithsonian Institution is very approximately cor-
rect In thiB, the author includes the Southern parte of Florida and
Texas, in a different Zoological Province, from that which embraces the
Atlantic States. In studying the members of the present family from
Cuba, it is very evident that most of the genera have acquired a dif-
ferent expression, from that which they display in the Atlantic States,
while but few, e. g. AeUopos, (vide Macragloiaum balteatum Kirtland,)*
and Dr.ilephila, retain their approximate sigaiScatioa. Eapyrrhogton-
SKni, HiTneroplanes, CaUiomma, Packylia, Amhulyx, Amphonj/x and
(Enoxanda, are unrepresented in the Atlantio States, and add much
new value to the family ; while this has totally lost the Northern
American genera Lepuetia, Deidamia, Thffreux, Geratomia and Ln-
para, while I urn led to believe that Smerinthui is but feebly repre-

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sented, and loseg most of ita exproBsioD in the West Indies. Darapm*
Walk., IB nnrepreaented in Prof. Poey'e Collection.

It will require a nicer critical comparison thaa I am able to ingtitnte
here, to bring out the fe»turea lost and gained, and to strike the bal-
ance; sufficient is, perhaps, already adduced to decide, that we have
entered on a. new Zoologioiil ProTinoe in leaving the United Statew.
while for the purposes of coDvenience of reference, the fauna of conn-
tries so adjacent to our own, may be included in Zoological Catalogues
of the North American Continent, without any impropriety.

*The genila Darapia Walkeri is not represented in the pregeot CoUeotioD.
According to 017 arrBngemeat of the North Americaa Spkingida, it shoald in-
augurate the Tribe C/uerocampini. HUbner, in his " VerBeichniee," arranges it
as hJB '• Family C, Uncinati," while ita affinities are plainly with Chierecampa
and allies, with analogical reaemblances to Oalliomma in the preceding Tribe
MaerogloMini. Htlbner'a generic name, proposed for the two consonant Spe-
cies — Chariltii and Myron — has priority over Mr. 'WalkBr'a, and should be re-
tained for our genus. The species are as follows :

OTCB, HUbner.
Otni OlMsillu.

Sphinx Charilui, Cram., Eiot. Ill, SI, PI. 247, fig. A. (1782.)
Aihinx Azniea, Abbot A Smith, Ins. Ga. Vol. I, 53, PI, 27, (1797,)
Olua c/urriltu, HUbner, Vers. Behm. p, 142, So. 1 J2a. (ISIS.)
Charocampa chmrilua, Harris, Sill. Journ. Vol. 36, p. 302. (1^39.)
Darapia cltariim, Walker, C, B, M. Part VIII, p. 183. (IS&B,)
" Clemens, Syn, N. Am. Bph, p. H7. (1859.)

ifoftitat,— Atlantic District '. Coll. Eat 3oo. Philad.

ifM JuyroB, Cram., Eiot III, 91, PI. 247, fig. C. (1782.)
\inx pampinatrix. Abbot i, Smith, Ins, Qa. Vol. 1, p. bb, "
w Myron, HQbner, Vers, Bchj. 142, No. 1524. (1818,)

Abbot * Smith, Ins. Ga. Vol. I, p. bb, PI. 88. (1797.)

'524. (1818,)

Ig. 321-322. (1923.)
Vol. 3fl, p. 801, (1839,)

Charocampa Pammnatrix, Hams, B

Darap»a Myron. Walker, C. B. M. Part VIII, p.

" " Clem, Byn. N. Am. Sph. p, 147. ^ia^n./

.ffoMtot—Atlantic District! Coll. £nt. Boc. Philad.
Otiu TMiioolor.

Oiaroeampa vtrncoUyr, Harris, Sill. Journ. Vol. 36, p. 303. (1839.)
? ■' Walker, C. B. M, Part VIII. p, 131. (1356.)

Darapia veriieaUrr, Clemens, Syn, N. Am. Sph. p. 148. (1S£9.)
HiAital — AtUntic Distriet 1 Coll. Ent. 80c. Philad.
Otni Fbaliu.

Sphinx PhoUin, Cram., Elot. Vol. I, 137, PI. 87, fig. B, (1779.)
Darap»a Phoiv*. Walker, C. B. M. Part VIII. p. I84. (1856.)
" ■■ Clem., Bjn. N. Am. Bph 148. (1849.)

.Boiifae.— West Indies. (Cramer.)

Darapta rhodoetra Walker, far which Mr. Walker forms a Group in bis genus,
I am autoptically unacquainted with. It appears to me to form thti type of ix
distinct genus, for which the generic name proposed by Mr. Walker might Yv
retained.

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LIST OF BPECJES.

AEL10?0S, HQbner.
Uten,

^Mnx (ttan Cram.

Atllo. titan Hubner.
tMlUlu*,

^Ai'na tantalua Lidd.

Aello. tantalus HQboer.

EUFnutHOGLOBSirK. Grote.
■•gra.

Maeroglaamm »agra Poe;.

Eupyrr. aa^ra Grote.

ESTO, Hubner.

Sphinx luffiibriif Lion.
En. luj/vbrit Hubnar.

Sphin:

EEXEB0FLJUIZ8, HUbner.
p(»ndotli;reui Grote.

PEBI&OITIA, Baiad.

£[pAinz luaai Fab.
Ferig. lusca Walk.

lafebTTii,

Macroglosaa lefebiirii Lucne.
Periy. hfebvrii H-S.

OAIXIOMBIA, Boiad.
Ifcattm,

i^Ainz fieaafiu Cram,
Oj/iioOT. lycaatvs Walk.

FEBO£BA, W&lk.
thorat«i.
Sphinx thorateg Huboer.
Ferg. (Aorote* Walk.

OKSBOOAMPA, DupoQch.

Sphinx Ttethua Cram.

CAaroc. nechva H-9.
BunaiacUl, H-8.
irro»t4, Grote.

Oreutpareu* Hobner.
Oharoe. porcat H-8.
foUnionll, Grote.

^ihina teria Drury.

Cheerae. terea Harris.

DEHIPHILA, Ochsen.
taWwleyi, Grota.
UaeaU.

Sphinx lintala Fab.
Deil^i, lineata Harris.
PITTT.Am'KT.W, Harria.

Bphira: vitit Linn.
miam. viiie Harris.

Sphinx ftuciatus Sulier.
Pkilam.yatdaiut H-B.
*l7CMin,

Sphinx tycoon Cram.
Philam. tycoon Grote.
labrnian,
^hitix lainuca Line.
Fkilam. labru^cm Walk.

PAcanu, Boisd.

Sphinx ficat Linn.

PiwA,>m« Walk.

Inomata, Clemens.

AKBITLTZ, Boisd.

5pAvnx ttrigilis Linn.
-4mi. girijtiM Walk.
Kanucn*.

^Ai'iTz ^nniunM Stoll.
.<l7n6. <;an(uieiu Walk.

FaSVDOSFHISX, Burtn.
tetrio,

Sphinx tetrio Linn.

Pseudoa. Utrio Barm.

* Or, PAflon. jiiMticatiu Gruto.

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AJEFHOVTX, FDe7.
aatvu.
Sphiia! OMtiBiu Drutj.
Avtph. anbEM Pooj.
dtip«lloK*l, Foey.

8FHIXX, Linn.
nuliM, Cramer.

OWOUlU, LlDQ.

oiiipiUts, Liaa.
■brontai, Drurj.
affliats, Orote.

XBmmB, HQbaer.

■ Or, SpMnx eabtMit Grote.

lucdlo Lidh.
m. ello HQbner.

Sphinx alope Drury.
.EWnn. alope HObner.
Grota.

i^iAinz flenctnu Cram,
^i-tnn. txtKtruS HQbii«r.
mslMiBlKiUaa, Grote.
pallida, Grote.
fnttaUrii,
Amxn/x ifiiltvliaHi Walker.
Srinn. gviiularit Grote.

<EV08AKSA, Walkftr.
Walker..

Ifote to the OeKKg FHiLAMPELns.
Sioce finiehiDg the foregoinj; Notice, I have become Batisfied that
HUbner'B figure of Dupo jumUhk represents P. vitis LiDa., Dmry,
Cramer, etc., aod it should be accordingly transferred from P./atctalux
to the synonymy of P. v{ti». Under P. vitis, Dr. Clemens, as I have
stated, while quoting Drury's figure, which Is unmistakeable, describes
specimens of P.fa*cin.tu» Sulzer sp., a name, which, though anterior,
Mr. Walker refers as a syuonym to P.jtt»sie.um Hiibner, probably fol-
lowing Htibner's coarse in the "Vera." Under P.juitMute {fascialus
SuIb.), Dr. Clemens describes specimens of P. vitw of Drury & Cram.
(except PI. 268, fig. E.) I finally conclude that Mr. Walker has origi-
nated this synonymy, which I continue to believe incorrect, relying on
Drury'a figure, while if the second species be not Xhi fa»ciata» of Sul-
ler, which I have no means of definitely ascertaining from want of the
work, Harris' name of P. Bomheckiana next comes into consideration,
I give here the synonymy of the two species.

Drury, Eiot. I, SO, PL 28,
Fabricius, Sp. Ins. II, HT
Cramer, Eiot. Ill, PI. 2SI
Fabriciufl, Mant. Ins. 11,
" Ent. Syst. Ill,

Abbot k Bmith, Iiu. Gs. 1

fig. I. (im.)

3S. (ITBl.)
fig.C. (ITSJ.)
6, 39. ^1787.)
I, 388, 41, (1T93.)
79, PI. 40. (1792.)

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DupojtuaUua, Hflbner, EzoL Bohm. Lep. II. Sph. III. hag. III. (ISM.)
" " HObner, Vert. Sehin. p. 137. (181(1.)

" ntis, HObuar, Veri. Sohm. p. 137. (1818.)?
PkUanipeluS mtia, Harris, C. N. Am. Sph. p. 19. (1839.)

" jumima. Walker, C. a M. Part VIII, p. 17T. (1866.)
■' ntis, Burm., Bph. Brae p. 3. (1SS6.)

" jtuiieua, Clem., Syn. N. Am. Sph. p. 1ST. {18S».)
" vili3, H-B., Corr. Blatt p. S8. (1B6S.)

Since Dr. Herrich-Scbraffer merely cites the speoiee by name, it is
Dot possible to know what species is intended. For the Pktlampflus
nitit, of Mr. Walker and Dr. Clemens, I retain the following synonymy.
It is inexplicable that Drury's figure, the earliest of P. vilis, could be
cited in the synonymy of P. /a»eiatu» m.

Pliilampslni fiuoiatai.

Sphinx foKiaias, Bulier, Ins. PI, 20, fig. 1. (1779.)

" vitit. CramBr, Eiot. Ill, PI. 208, fig. E. (1782.)
Not Sphinx vilit, Linn, Drury, etc.

Phiiampelua Sarnbeckiana, Harris, C. S. A. Sph. p. 19. {1889.) t
vita. Walk., C. B. M. Part VIII, p. 17B. (1868.)
" viiis, Clem., Bjn. TS. Am. Sph. p. 156. (1859.)

faaeiabit, H-B., Corr. Blatt p. 68. (1S«6.)

In addition to my obaenations on P. li/ca<m, which I feel satisfied
iire correct, I would state that it is possible that Cramer's figure wa.s
tjtken from an individual, which had the hind wings of a specimen of
P. natellili'i, substituted in place of its own ; similar practices have
been before this discovered, chargeable to the nnscnipulousness of the
p]arly Collectors. The pink anal patch is a specific character of P.
li/caon Hiibner, Grote, which P. sarHHtin Linn, Dniry, Harris, {Pmi-
■foi-as Hiibner) never shares.

ESRAIA ET COEBVmrDA.

K'age 34, line 4, dele " JEgtsriidn."
■' 3J, line 4, tor " the" read " a more."

■' 34, line &, (toot note,) for "d'indequer" read "d'indiquer."
" 34, line fl, (foot note,) for " liu" read " lui."
■• 40, line 8, for " the" read "that"
■' 41, line 6, for "Veri" read " Ueb,"
■■ 44. line II, for " Zuts." read " Zutr."

■■ 45, line 6, for " Herrioh-Sliteffer" read " Herri ch-Schteffer,"
■■ a3, line 28, for " Darapsa" read " Otua."
" S8, line 2, (foot note,) for " gehoren" read " gehSreu."
- 63, line 4, tor "1885" read " 1859."
The date of Cramer's 2Dd Vol. should read everywhere 1779.

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■onoKTkpli of tha FHIUBIHIDA of Fortli Amsrioa.

BY K. T. CKES80N.

{dnimnmieated Jw!y lOtk, 1865.)

This extensive family ie represeoted by some of the moBt beantitiil
species in the tribe of foseorial Hymenoptera. The genera are but
three in number — Philanthus, Gereeria and Eucercerit, nov. gen.; the
two former are numerous in speoies, and have a wide diatribntion, being
found in t)urope, Asia, Afrioa, Australia, and North and South Ame-
rica. The laBt named genus seeme to be confined to North America,
and ia closely allied to Cercfri*, thongb quite distinct by the different
neuratioD of the anterior wingg. The only two species heretofore de-
scribed, and belonging to this genus, were referred by Say to Phiian-
thug; hia specimens being males, he doubtless placed them in that genua
because of the neuration being more similar than to that of Cerce.rh,
while at the same time he was convinced that they ahoold form " a dis-
tinct subgenuB."

Little or nothing is as yet known of the. economy of our apeoies of
this family, but they have doubtless much the same habits aa those of
Europe, where the speoies of Pkilantkug aeem to prey almost ezcln-
sively upon Ani/rena, Haltclus and Apis meUiJica, while those of Cer-
cerii select different speciea of Curculionidte, and other coleopteroua
insects, as well as Bolicti; these are stored up in their cells for the
nourishment of their young.

Oenue FHUASTHTB, Fabr.
Head large, wider than the thorax, suboihioular, sometimes subquad-
rat« ; eyes lateral, ovate, slightly emarginate within ; ocelli in a trian-
gle on the vertex ; anteDnEe subclavate, inserted above the elypens in
the middle of the face, not approximated ; clypeus trilobate, the lateral
lobes of % with an appressed tuft of long silky pubescence ; mandibles
acute at their apex. Thorar ovate, the collar transverse, the metatho-
rax obtusely rounded, sometimes truncated behind. Wingg: the ante-
rior wing (Fig. 1) with one marginal and three submarginal cells; the
Fig. 1. marginal cell narrow, elongate, more or less pointed

(T'^I^ ^'S^-...^^^ at tip ; the first submarginal cell about as long as the
^<3^^S_;^^— "" two following, the second about half as long as the
first and narrowed towards the marginal, receiviog the first recurrent
nervure about the middle or a little beyond ; third submarginal larger
than tihe second, narrowed nearly half its width towards the mai^nal,

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and receiving the second recarrent nerrnre eitber Bbont tlie middle or
very near its base. Lega stout and more or less spinose, the aaterioi
tarn nliated exteriorly. Abdomen ob1oDg-ovat«, the margins of the
segments slightly depresBed.

J. — Bodj/fiTuij/ punetured.
I. FUlantliiii Klorioiu, n. Bp.

Large, blftck ; face, teguliB, two traniTerBs gpoU on b&ial Begment of abdo-
men, and broad coDtiuuoua banda on remaining BegmentB, yellow ; ctieeki, collar,
moet or legs, basal Begment of abdomen, and bands on Tenter, dull ferruginoue
or honey-yellow ; wings dull honey-yellow.

Fe.male. — Black, shining, clothed with short, fine, fuscous and och-
raceouB pubescence; head large, minutely punctured, clothed with yel-
lowish pubescence, long on the cheeks; sides of the face, a large sub-
qoadrate spot between the anteunfe, clypeus and mandibles except tips,
yellow; a large, dull ferruginous spot occupies most of the oheelc, ex-
tending upon the occiput where the two are almost confluent; antenna
black or pjceous, the scape, except a black line above, and the two
basal joints of the flagellum beneath, yellow. Thorax shining above,
closely aud more strongly punctured than the head, the punctures more
sparse on the disk of the mesotborax, which has a very short pale fus-
cous pubescence and a rather deep, longitudinal depression in front ;
pectus, pleura and metathorax densely clothed with a pale ochraceous
sericeous pubescence ; prothorai either entirely ferruginous above, or
with a yellowish -ferruginous line on its posterior margin; postscntellam
yellow, or ferruginous with a yellow spot on each side ; a spot ou the
tubercles and a transverse spot immediately behind them and beneath
the superior wing, yellowish; metathorax closely punctured, with a
a broad, shallow depression ou the disk ; tegolse yellow. Wings sub-
hyaline, tinged with dull hooey-yellow, the apical margins narrowly
fuscous or fuliginous, with a slight violaceous reflection;' ncrvures
honey-yellow. Legs honey-yellow; the four anterior tibite and tarsi
yellow, the posterior pair tinged with yellow. Abdomen elongate-ovate,
the basal segment strongly contracted and subglobose ; finely, distinctly
and rather sparsely punctured, shining, with a short, sparse, yellowish
pubescence, more obvious on the basal segment, which is convex, ob-
scure ferruginous, with more or less black at base and apex, and with
a transverse yellow spot on each lateral middle; the second, third,
fourth and fifth segments with a broad, continuous yellow hand at the
apex, that on the second covering the whole of the segment, except-
ing a large, elongate, black or ferruginous mark ou the middle, and
proceeding from the base; the bands on the third, fourth and fifth eeg-

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menta ara more or leas narrowed on the anterior middle, and slightly
indentated on each side anteriorly; sixth segment with a large trian-
gular yellow mark, covering nearly the entire s^ment above; vent«r
pioeona, shining, the four basal segments each with a broad, continuous
yellow band. Length 8 — 9} lines; expanse of wings 14 — 16 lines.

Ba6.— Colorado Territory, (B. D. Walsh, Esq.) Coll. Entom. Soc.
Phikd.

Two 9 specimens; % unknown. This is the largest and finest spe-
cies yet discovered in this country, and is readily distinguished by the
broad yellow &sciie on the second and following segments of the abdo-
men, that on the second with a deep longitudinal indentation on the
basal middle. The Society is indebted to the kindness of Mr. Walsh
for this fine addition to its collection.

2. Fhilanthiia frigidni, Smith.

Philantktis/rigidua, Bmith, Brit. MuB. Cat. Hym. iv. p. 175,^.
Blacky three broad stripes on face, interrupted tine oa collar, spot on tegulES,
another on postscutellum, most of tibiee and tarsi, spot on each side of first ab-
domina] segment, and oarrov faaoin On remaining segments, yellowj wings

Female. — Black, somewhat shining, very closely and finely punc-
tured, thinly clothed with a pale pubescence ; bead transversely oom-
pressed; face flat, with a broad longitudinal yellow stripe on each side,
and another down the middle, the former does not extend higher up than
the insertion of the uotennec, and ends beneath in a transverse spot on
the extreme side of the clypeus; the middle stripe is composed of a
rounded spot beneath the insertion of the antenase, and a broad, some-
what uneven elongate mark down the middle of the olypeus ; a dot on
the posterior orbits, and a spot on base of mandibles, also yellow ; an-
tennte subfiliform, slightly thickened towards the tip, the scape with a
yellow dot at the apex within. Thorax: dorsal front of mcsothoraz
uneven with longitudinal impreBsions; an interrupted line on the oollar,
a dot on taberotes, sometimes nunting, and a transverse spot or dot on
postsontellum, yellow ; scutellum shining and more sparsely punctured
than the rest of the thorax ; metatborax very densely and finely sculp-
tured, thickly clothed with a long pale pubescence, the tip of the en-
closed basal space is shining and transversely pinched ; tegulte piceous,
with a yellow spot in front. Wings subhyaline, tinged with fusco-fer-
rnginons, especially towards the tips, which have a subviolaceous re-
flection ; nervurea fusco-ferrug incus. Legs black or piceous ; est«rior
tips of the anterior trochanters, spot on posterior cox^e, tips of all the
femora, the tihiie, and base of tarsi, ydlow; a spot on the tibia at tip

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beaeath and remainder of the tarsi, fnaoons. Abiiomen ovate, Babde.
preeaed, regularly narrowed towards the base, the basal segment only
slightly constrioted at tip; minutely panctured, the apical segments

more distinctly bo ; first segment with a rounded, sometimeB trunsTCree,
uneven, yellow spot on each side near the tip ; the second and three
following segments each with a narrow, Bubapical, yellow fascia, th:it
on the eecnnd segment narrowed in the middle where it is more or less
interrupted ; that on the third segment Ib also sometimes slightly in-
terrupted; those on the fourth and fifth segments are oontiQuous and
sometimes a little wavy; apical segment depressed, rugulose, rounded
at tip ; venter smooth, shining, black or piceous-black, immaculate.
sparsely punctured. Length 53 — 6i lines; expanse of wings 10 — 11}
lines.

Male. — Smaller and narrower than the female ; the head is not trans-
versely compressed ; the stripes on the face are broader, the middle
one tapering towards the insertion of the antennae between which is a
yellow dot; the posterior orbit has a short yellow line; the antennae
are longer and more slender at base, the scape is yellow in front, and
the flagellum rufo-testaceous beneath towards the base; the line on the
collar is uninterrupted, the pleura has a transverse lunate spot beneath
the anterior wing, the seutellum has a broad transverse yellow band at
base, and the postscutellum has a transverse spot of the same color; the
spot on the tegulEe is larger; the wings are clearer and iridescent; the
anterior coxse have a large yeliow spot beneath, and the posterior pair
are yellow at tips, with a spot on their trochanters beneath^ all the
femora have a more or less dilated yellow line beneath, while the tibire
and tarsi are more yellowish than in the female ; the abdomen is nar-
rower and convex, not at all depressed; the ornamentation is much the
same, only the band on the second segment is not broader than those
OD the following segments; the sixth segment has a transverse spot on
each side ; the venter has a yellow fascia on each of the second, third
and fourth segments, the first intermpted in the middle. Length 5
lines; expanse of wings 8 lines.

Hah.—" Nova Scotia," (Smith) ; Canada West, (Mr. B. Billings,
Jr.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Three 9 •, *)■>& % > Bpecimeus. A female specimen, collected in Colora-
do Territory by Mr. James Riding, differs from those from Canada as
follows: the three yellow stripes on the face are irregular and broken,
the spot beneath the antenuie is much reduced, while that on the mid-
dle of the olypeus is larger, rounded above and emarginated beneath ;

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the posterior orbits have a line ae in the male; the front of mesothorax
is more uneven, the pOBtscntelluiu has a mere dot on ita middle, and
the tip of the enclosed basal space of the metathorax is not shining; the
tegnlse are almost entirely yellow; the wings are uniformly tinged with
dull hon^-yellow ; the femora have more yellow at tips, especially on
the posterior pair, which have nearly the apical half yellow; the spots
and bands on the abdomen, although similarly shaped, are larger and
nearly twice as broad ; the venter has an interrupted yellow fascia on
the second and third Beg&ient«, suddenly dilated at the sides, and a
small yellow spot on each side of the two following segments. Length
6^ lines.

3. FhtUntbui Banbomil, n. tp.

Bla«k; face, base of ADteaaES, collar, line beneath teguln. poslBcutelluDi, spot
o> teguln, most of legs, irregular spot on each side of first and second abdomi-
nal Begmeats, very large and subovate on the second, and narrow emarginate
faecin on the three following segmeDte, yellow ; wiaga fusco-bjaline.

Femak.—B\adk, shining, finely and rather indistinctly punctured,
clothed with a short, pale pubescence, longer and more dense on the
cheeks ; bead broader than the thorax ; sides of the face narrowed and
estending a little above the insertion of the antennse, a spot between
the antennsB, sometimes transverse, sometimes rounded, the clypeus,
mandibles except tips, and u small spot on the side of the cheek, yel-
low; the suture on each side of the large middle lobe of the clypeus is
more or less broadly black ; anteonee rather stout, the third joint cla-
vate, much attenuated towards the base; scape 'yellow, with a black
spot behind, the flagellum black, rufo-testaceoos beneath towards the
base, the small first joint with a yellow dot in front. Thorax with a
deep ohannel on the front of the mewthorax ; a lino on the collar, more
or less interrupted in the middle, a transverse line beneath the anterior
wing, a transverse line on the poatscutellum, rarely wanting, and a spot
on the tegulEQ anteriorly, yellow; metathorax finely punctured, with a
deep longitudinal channel on dorsal middle. Wings rather strongly and
uniformly tinged with yellowish -fuscous, and with a slight violat-eouM
reflection ; nervures fuscous. Legs yellow ; coste, trochanters, the
anterior femora above, and the two posterior pairs except tips, black or
brown, the latter sometimes pale fuscous, shading into testaceous at tips ;
tarsi more or less dusky throughout. Abdomen rather broad-ovate,
aubconvex, very closely and finely punctured ■ apical Incisures of the
first and second segments deeply impressed ;■ on each side of the first
segment a yellow spot or a transverse irregular line ; second segment
with a lar}^, transverse, sabovate yellow spot on each side, occupying

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th« whole length of the segment; third, fonrth aod fifth segmeats each
with K turrow eabapioal yellow baDd, broader on the aides, more or less
deeply ema^nated oa each side anteriorly, and very slightly inter-
mpted in the middle; apical aegment depressed, rounded at tip, smooth
and shining, without apparent punctures ; venter piceous-black, shining,
immaculate. Length 7 lines; expanse of wings 11 lines.

Mi/e. — Resembles the female in general shape and markings > the
head is not so broad, scarcely wider than the thorax, and clothed with
black pubeHCenoe ; the eyes are more approximated on the vertex and
the front not so depressed ; the clypens has a triangular black mark os
the middle anteriorly, and together with the longitudinal mark on the
side of the face and the spot between the antennae, assumes a shape not
unlike a W ; the spot between the antennie is sometimes confluent with
a large subocbioular spot on the reit«x; the spot on each side of the
cheek is situated rather lower down than in the female; the appressed
lateral tuft of the clypens is fulvous; the mandibles are entirely black,
polished, simple, and acute at tip; the flagellum of the antennse is
gradually narrowed towards the base, and the second joint is cylindri-
cal and not olavste; the scape and four or five basal joints of the flagel-
lum are yellow, black behind. Thorax, wings and legs are same as in
the female, except that the tegul^e are almost entirely yellow, and the
femora are more blackish. Abdomen narrower, the markings are much
the same, except that the first segment is generally immaculate, the
large maculae on the second are more trunsverse and approximated on
the middle of the segment, while the fasciae on the three following seg-
ments are sometimes entire, and sometimes much narrowed und inter-
rupted into narrow lines, by the tmarginations cutting through ; the
sixth segment has two small spots on the middle, sometimes obsolete or
wanting; the whole abdomen is clothed with a black pubescence, short
and spanie above, long and rather dense beneath, especially towards
the tip. Length 4i — 6i lines; expanse of wings 9 — 11 lines.

iTdt.— Massachusetts, (Mr. James Ridings and Mr. F. Stratton.)
Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Six 9 , nineteen S specimens. The female of this species is shaped
somewhat like that of P. frujidus, Smith, but the markings are differ-
ent, and may be at onee distinguished by the large ovale macula on
each side of the second abdominal segment.

It gives me pleasure to dedicate this fine species to my much es-
teemed friend, Mr. Francis G. Sanborn, of Boston, Mass., a zealouti
und valuable Entomologist.

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i. Philuthu latldutMi D. *p.

BlMk ; face siWary ; clTpenl, ooU»r, tuberoles, BontoUnms, tega]«, two ipoti
on metathorox, UgB in part, and broad bands on abdomen, lemon -yellow j wings
bjaline.

Male. — Black, opsque, very densely and finely punctured, thinly
clothed with a silvery-ciDereouB pubescence; head large, wider than
the thorax; face and oheeke rather densely clothed with a fine, ap-
pressed silvery pubescence; clypens, and mandibles except tips, yellow;
antennie nither long, slender, Bubfiliform, the flagellum a little attenu-
ated at base, black above, brown beneuth, paler at buse, the scape yet-
low beneath. Thorax: an aninterrnpted line on the collar, extending
down irregularly on each side, the tubercles, confluent with a large spot
behind and just beneath the anterior wing, scat«llum and a dot at each
basal corner, postsc-utellum, a large oblong-ovate spot on each side of
mctathorax, and the tegulee, lemon-yellow ; metathorax with a nither
deep, longitudinal channel on the dorsnl middle. Wings pure hyaline,
iridescent; nervures pale fuscous. Legs: coxce and trochanters black
or piceous-black ; femora dull honey-yellow, blackish at base and yellow
at tips and beneath ; tibiae yellow above, honey-yellow beneath ; tarsi
honey-yellow. Abdomen elongate-ovate, segments contracted at base,
especially the anterior ones; the five basal segments each with a
broad, continuous, lemon-yellow band, leaving the basal and apical
margins narrowly black; the two apical segments black, immacnlate ;
venter with a yellow spot on each side of the second segment, and a
more or less interrupted yellow fascia on each of the third and fourth
segmentB. Length 1 — 4} lines; expanse of wings 6i — 7 lines.

Hab. — Rocky Mountains, Colorado Territory, (Ridings.) Coll. Knt.
Soo. Philad.

Two i specimens; $ unknown. A pretty and distinct little species,
easily recogniied hy the broad, continuous and nnifonU bands on the
abdomen.

5. FUlaathBt aHMpiloint, n. sp.

Black, thickl; clothed with white pubescence ; face, tibiffi and tanl, tegnlte,
broad bands on three baaal aegmentB of abdomen and spot) on tbe remaining
tegmenta, yellow ; wings pure hyaline,

J/o/c. — Black, shining, indistinctly punctured, head, thorax, legs
and hose of abdomen thickly clothed with a rather long, fine, white
pubescence, a little silvery in certain lights; head wider than the tho-
rax; the entire (kce, up to the ocelli, and the clypeus, pale yellow,
sometimes slightly tinged with honey-yellow ; mandibles black ; the
front slightly raised ; ant«nn(e black, gradually thickened towards the
apex, the second joint of the flagellum cylindrical ; tbe scape beneath,

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and the Beoond, third and fourth joints of the flagellnm beneftth. pale
yellow, the l&tter fnlvons beneath towards the tips. Thorax BoniMimee
entirely black, aoraetimea the collar haa a verj narrow, anbioterrupted
yellowiBb line, the taberclea a spot, and the eoutellum two approsimated
dote on its middle, but the latter are appu'ent in one speciinea only ;
the scutelluiu is traneveraelj convex, with a slight depreaaion on its
diek, and the metathorax haa a welt impressed longitudiiiaJ uhanDel ;
tegulse pale yellowish. Wiags purely hyaline, slightly iridesceut; ner-
Turea pale boaey-yellow. Legs slender, black; extreme tips of the
femora and the tibise, pale yellow; tibite beneath and tbe tarsi entirely,
dusky, the latter long and slender. Abdomen ovate, aubacuminate at-
tip, the baaal segment as broad aa the second; the segments rather
deeply inciaed at base ; firat, second and third segmenle each with a
broad, continuous, pale yellow fascia, more or leas emarginated on each
aide posteriorly ; fourth, fifth and sixth seKments each with a central
transverae yellowish spot, the fourth' sometinjes with a small spot or dot
on each side; apical segment black, immaculate, subacute at tip; be-
neath black, immaculate, smooth and shining. Length 4j lines; ex-
panse of wings 8J lines.

?a&.— Illinois, (Dr. Samuel Lewis.) Coll. Ent. Soo. Philad.

Five £ specimens; f unknown. This cnrious little species may be
easily recognized by the head and thorax being thickly clothed with a
beautiful silvery-white pubescence.

n. Fhilanthn* lepidna, n, ep.

Blaclff poliflbed ; face^ large mark between antemiffi, line on collar, tuberclea,
teguln, postBcutelluQi, tibice and tarei, spot on each side of first segment of ab-
donieD, and fascin on the remaiaing segmeutg, broad oa tbe second, bright
yellaw; winga pale yeltawUb- fuscous.

Ma/e. — Black, polished, impunctured; head large, tranavorBely -ovate ;
the front prominent, very minutely punetnred, with a central longitudi-
nal depression beneath the ocelli ; sides of the face, clypeus, spot on
base of mandible's, and a dot behind the eyes, bright lemon-yellow; a
triangular mark between the antennee, confiuent with a large quadrate
mark above, bright deeper yellow ; the appressed lateral tuft of the
olypeua is silky-ochraoeous ; antennee gradually but mueh thickened to-
wards the tips, slender at base, black, the scape entirely, aud the four
baaal joints of the flagelluni beneath, yellow. Thorax polished, with-
out punctures ; mesothorax with a well-impressed central line, and An
indistinct abbreviated one over the teguke ; a 4ine over the oolbr, tu-
bercles and a transverse spot behind, and tbe postecutellum, bright
leuoa-yellow ; melathorax short, rounded behind, smooth and polished.

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wiUi a deep elongate tbvea on the disk ; te^lre lemon-yellow. Wings
Babhyalise, the apical half stained with jellowish-fuiconH ; nerwres
and Btigma fulrona. Legs Blender, shining black ; apical half of the
anterior femora, tips of the four poaterior femora, and all the dhim and
tarsi, bright lemou-yellov ; tips of the tarsi slightly dasky. Abdomea
orato, highly polished, impunctured, esoept at tip ; first and second
segments rather deeply inoiaed at tip, tha former conves and rounded
in fkint, with an oblique, ovate, lemon-yellow spot on each side towards
the tip ; second segment with a broad, basal lemon-yellow band, a little
oblique on the sides, and slightly Interrupted in the middle ; third,
fourth and fifth segments each with a narrow, ajtical, lemon-yellow
Kwoia, slightly wavy on the sides; sixth and apical segments very mi-
nntely pnnotured and pabescent, the former with a transverse yellowish
spot on the middle aod another on each side; apical segment immaeu-
late, sabtmDcat« at tip ; venter polished, black, the apical middle of
the second and following segments obscurely brownish, with a yellow
dot on each extreme side. Length 4t huea; expanse of wings 71 llnee.

Hah. — Rooky Mountains, Colorado Territory. (Ridings.) Coll.
Ent. Soo. Philad.

One % specimen ; 9 unknown. A lovely species, remarkable for the
smooth, polished, imptmctureil body, and the bright lemon-yellow
Qiarkinge.

1. PUlaatliiu pnleheUu, n. ap.

Black ; face, spot above aDtenon, collar, tubercles, tegutce, BcatellamB, tibice
aad tarsi, and emarginated banda on abdomen, pale yellow ; wingi hyaline.

Mide. — Black, shining, finely and sparsely punctured, slightly pube-
scent; head transveisely ovate; sides of the face, much narrowed on
each aide of the insertion of the antennre, clypeus, spot between an-
tenna, a rounded, triangular, or rhomboidal spot on the front just above
the aotennse, a spot on base of mandibles, and a -dot behind the eyes,
more or less pale yellow, sometimes almost white ; antennee black,
slightly thickened towards the apex, tlie second, third,' fourth and
sometimes the fifth joints of the flagellnm are yellow io front and the
apical joints have each a testaceous spot or stain ; in some speoimcaa
the spot between the antennee and the larger one above, are more or
leaa oouflueot, and the spot behind the eyes is enlai^d ; aometimee
the tip only of the second, and the third joint of the fiagellum are yel-
lowish. Thorax sparsely punctured; mesothoraz with a deep centra)
channel ; a bfind on the prothorax, slightly interrupted in the middle,
the tubercles and a spot behind, a little Iowot down, a transverse spot
on the aeutellum, sometimes iDterrupted in the middle, and fbnuing two

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spots, and in one speoimeii entirely wanting, a transverse line on poet-
seatellam, and the tegnUe, pale-yellowish, sometimes almost white ; the
Hontellnm has a more or less deep ohannel down the middle, and in the
specimen with immacalste ecatellam, the channel is very deep ; meta*
thorax sparsely pnnetared, with a deep, elongate, central fovea. Wings-
hyaline; nervores pde honey-yellow. Legs yellow; the coxse. tro-
chanters, and the femora, esoept tips, black, Abdomen oblong-ovate,
sparsely punctured, shining; first segment convex, rounded in iWnt
and contracted posteriorly ; second segment also slightly contracted at
base ; first segment with a median pale yellow baod, more or less deeply
emai^nate on each side posteriorly, and occssioDally interrupted in the
middle ; the remaining segments each with a pale yellow apicul fusaia,
jhat on the second segment broadest, deeply snd squarely emarginated
on each side posteriorly; in one specimen this band is entire with a
minute black specie on each side of the middle ; the fascite oa third and
following segmeota are obtusely, sometimes squarely, emarginated on
eacb aide anteriorly; apicsil s^ment immaculate, subtrunoate or slightly
emai^inate at tip ; beneath smooth, shining, immaculate. Length 4
lines ; expanse of wings 7 lines.

Hab. — Rocky Mountains, Colorado Territory. (Ridings.) CoH.
Ent. Sec. Phikid.

Six % specimens ; 5 unknown. A beautiful little Insect, closely re-
lated to the three following species in the markings of the abdomen.

S. FUUbQiU politni, Ba7.

Pkila3tlh%i» polilitt, Ba;, I^ong's S&d Ezped. ii, p. 3t3; Amer. Ent plate M.

AnOi^l^iu p<ilitKi, Dahlb., Hjm. Earop. i, p. IBO.
Black: faoe, line on oollar, aometiinea inlarrupted, tno apota beneath the
wingB, line on poatacutellum, spot on each aide of first segmentof abdomen, and
emarginated bands on the remaining aegmenta, white; tibio yellow; wings
tinged with palp yellowiBh-faseoua.

FemaU. — Black, polished, with deep scattered punctures ; vertex
slightly prominent, densely and very minutely sculptured; sides of the
&ce, suddenly narrowed on each side of the insertion of the antennie,
dypeus, a transverse spot between the antennce. and a dot above, be-
tween it and the ocelli, line on the mandibles, and a spot or line behind
the eyefl, white; antennie black, thickened, the flagellnm narrowed at
base, Mvous beneath, the scspe white beneath. Thorax with scattered,
rather fine punctures; two transverse spots or an intermpted line on
collar, tubercles and a spot behind, line on postscntellum, and the teg-
nlte, white ; melathorax with a deep fovea on the dorsal middle. Wings
stained with pale fulvo-fusoons, hyaline at base; nervnres pale honey-

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yellow. Lega bla^k ; extreme tipi of (he femora and the tlbbe exte-
riorly, pale yellow ; the latter blaok beneath ; the fbar anterior tatei
honey-yellow; the poeterior pair blackish. Abdomen ovate, highly
polished, with scattered deep panctares ; basal Hegment oonvex, ronnded
at base and constricted at tip, with a white rounded or transverse spot
OD each side ; second segment with a transverse white line on the apical
middle, aod a aubquadrate spot on eaeh side, sometimes the middle line
is wanting; third, fourth and fifth segments have each a narrow, apical,
white fascia, deeply emsi^nated on each side anteriorly ; apioal seg-
ment depressed, rounded at tip with two indistinct whitish spots at
base ; in some specimens the second segment has a continuous fascia,
very deeply and squarely emarginated on each side posterioriy; vcnt«r
smooth and polished, immaculate. Length 4} Hoes; expanse of wings
7} lines.

Hah. — " Pennsylvauia," (Say, Smith) ; Massaohusette, (Ridings) ;
Illinois, (Dr. Lewis and Mr. Walsh) ; Rocky Mountains, Colorado Ter-
ritory, (Ridings). Coll. Ent. Soo. Philad.

Thirteen 9 specimens; % unknown, nnlese it be the P. dubiu* de-
scribed below.

Ulmiu, n. Bp.

Black, pubeseenl \ face, line on collar, two spoto on acutellum, line on post-
BCUtellum, tibin ezteriorlj, and faecite on abdoman, aometimeB mare oi Icbb in-
terrupted and emargiaated, whitieh ; ffinge hyaline.

Female. — Black, shining, head and thorax rather thickly clothed
with a short, fine, whitish pubescence, finely and sparsely punctured;
head transversely subcompressed ; sides of the face, extending a little
above the slight emarginatjon of the eyes, a longitudinal line above the
insertion of each antenna, cl;rpens except a lai^ black spot on each
lateral lobe, a line on the mandibles, and a spot behind the eyes, all
obscure whitish ; antenna; gradually thickened towards the tips, black
above, the scape whitish beneath, and the flagellom, except basal joint,
fulvous beneath. Thorax: line on the collar, two sabobsolete longitu-
dinal lines on the mesothorax, a spot beneath the anterior wing, two
spots on BcntelluiD, a line on postacutetlum, and the tegolse, obscure
whiljsh ; in one specimen the collar has only a short line on each side
above, the mesothorax and scntellam are immaculate, and the poetscn-
tellum has only a npot on each side ; the markings are ail indistinct ;
mesothorax closely punctured, abrupt on the sides and behind, the disk
with a shallow longitudinal fovea. Wings hyaline, iridescent, slightly
tjngod with pale fuscous towards the tip; nervures pale honey-yellow.
Legs slightly pubescent, black; apioai half of the anterior femora, tips

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of the two poeterior pairs, and the tibiie, ezeept a blackish line heneath,
very pale yellowish-white ; tarsi mora or less dusky. Abdomen ovate,
shining, slightly pubeecent, especially at base, with rather deep, scat-
tered pUQctarea; first segment convex, ronnded at baae and contracted
at tip, the other segmenU rather deeply incised at base; each segmcDt
with an apical, obsonre whitish fascin, bi-UDdulnte on the first segment,
with a deep emargination on each side posteriorly ; the other foscin
are clouded with dusky posteriorly ; in one specimen the markings are
much less developed, the basal segment has only a small spot on each
side, the second and third segments have the tascim deeply emsTginated
on each side posteriorly, while those on the two followiog segments are
interrnpted into three spots on each segment by the emar;;! nations oat-
ting through ; apical segment with a broad continuous band at base,
the segment depressed, obtusely rounded or subtruncate at tip ; beneath
shining, immaculate. Length 4} lines; espanse of wings 8 lines.

ffo6.— Illinois, (Dr. Samuel Lewis.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Two 9 specimens ; % unknown. Very similar to F. politu» Say, but
the head is difierently marked, and the wings are clearer.

10, Fbilantliiu dablnl, n. apJ

Black ; Bides of face, clypeue except acuneiromi mark on disk, a spot between
antennte gometimeB connected with a large murk above, collar, tubercles, po9t-
Bcutellum, tibiEB and tarei, apot on each side of first abdominal segment, and
narrow em arg ins. ted bands on remaining segments, jellow; wings etained with
pale fuBCOue, clearer at base,

Mah. — Shaped and sculptured like P. polifut Say. Bkck, shining,
sparsely punctured, and with a thin short white pubescence, more ob-
vious on the face and sides of metathoraz; sides of the face, clyponti
except a cuneiform mark on the disk, gpot between the antennee, eome-
t^mes coanected with a larger, rounded, transverse or broad sablanceo-
late mark on the middle of the vertex, a spot or line behind the eyes,
a dot on each side jnst behind the ocelli, and a line on mandibles, all
yellow; anten nee black, the scape within and a spot on the second,
third and fiiurth joints of the flagellum within, yellowinh, the latter
fUvons beneath. Thoras': slightly interrupted line on the collar, tu-
bercles and a. spot behind, tegulic, and a line on postscntellum, yellow.
Wings stained with pale fulvo-fuacous, the basal half hyaline ; nervures
pnle honey-yellow. Legs colored as in f. politui, except that the tarsi
are paler. Abdomen shaped, sculptured and marked similar to that
of P. poUtnx, but is more pubescent, especially at the apex ; the two
apical segments are immaculate, the last obtuse ; beneath pieeoua-blach,
immaculate. Length 3f — 1} lines; expanse of wings (il — 7t Udos.

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F"6.— New York, (Ashton) ) lllinoia, (th-. Lewis and Mr. Walsh.)
Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Eleven I speciniena. This is probably the % of P. palitiu Say, al-
though I am by no nieatis certain that it is ; the sculpture and mark-
ings are very similar, the greatest difference being in the color of the
markings, which are yellow id this species, and milk-white in
pvlitus.

II. Philontlmi bllnnatai, n. sp.

Black, polished ; sidea of the face, nljpeuB, apot on vertei. collar, tubercles,
poBtBcittellum, tibiffi anil tarei, two lunate spota on aecond aegmentof abdomen,
and narrow emarginated faaciffl on three following aegments, lemon -jellow ;
wings dusky at tips; abdomen narrowed and couatricted at base.

Idal^. — Black, polished, impnnctured, except on the vertex, which
is closely and very minutely punctured; head large, transversely ovate;
Bides of the face, clypeus, small trinsverse line just abuve the clypeus,
and a lar^ suborbieular spot on the middle of the front, yellow ; man-
dibles entirely black; antennse black, the scape within and u spot on
the second and third joints of the flagellum, yellow. Thorax impnnc-
tured, very thinly pubescent; slightly interrupted line on the collar,
apot beneath the anterior wing, line on postscutellum. and the tegulce,
yellow ; metathoraz convex, rounded behind, with a deep elongate fovea
on the disk. Wings hyaline at base, the apical half stained with pale
fulvo-fuscouB ; nervurea pale honey-yellow. Legs black; extreme tips
of the femora, and the tihiss and tarsi entirely, yellow; posterior tarsi
dnsky at tips. Abdomen ovate, much narrowed and constricted at
base, highly polished, impunctured ; basal segment convex, rounded at
base, sometimes with a yellow dot or line on each side of the middle;
second segment with a large, trani^verse. lunate, yellow mark on each
side, sometimes almost eonflnent on the middle; the three following
segments each with a narrow, apical yellow fascia, more or ln-'f deeply
emarginate on each side anteriorly; two apical segments slijjhtly pu-
bescent, immaculate, the last, subtruucate at tip ; venter polished, im-
maculate. Length 4J lines; expanse of wings 7J lines.

^ufi.— MaasachusettB (Stratton) ; Illinois (Walsh). OoU, Knt. Soc.
Philad.

Five % specimens, 9 unknown. .\ handisotue little species, rcudily
distinguished by the polished, impunctured body, and by the abdomen
being much narrowed and somewhat strangulated at hatie, with two
lai^e lunate marks on the second segment ab"ve.

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13. PUluitliu Tantilabrii, Fabr.

PhilanOmi ventilabnt, Fabr., Ent. 8y>t. Sappl. p. £68. Coqueb, IH. loon.
p. Bfl, pi. 22, fig. 2.

Fhilanthua vertilabrit, Fabr., Byst. Pies. p. 303. Say, Amer. Eatom. plate i».

Anlhophilw vertilahrig, Dahlb.. Hym. Earop. i, p. 497.
Black i face, large spot on front in ^ , base of antennBB, collar, tuberelea, tsg-
alte, postBcutellutn, legs except base, and faBciw on abdomen, interrupted on
first, and broadest on second segment, yellow j legs fulvous at base^ wiaga eub-
hyaline.

FeTnale. — Black, opaque, very deoselj and grossly paactured, slightly
pabesceot ; head much wider than the thorax, the iroot slightly pro-
miDent; sides of the face not extending above the iuscrtion of the
anteDDEe, clypeus, mandibles except tips, two elongate spots between
the insertion of the antcnnie, confluent beneath, and with a small, more
or less distinct spot between them, and a line behind the summit of
the eyes, yellow or very pale yellowish -white; antennae rather short,
thickened, black above, the sca[>e and two basal joints of flagellum be-
neath, whitish, rest of the flagellum beneath fulvous. Thorax with a
well-impressed central longitudinal line above ; collar, tubercles and a
large spot behind, tegulse, and a line on postscutellam, whitish, yellow-
ish-white or yellow; nietathorax more densely and finely sculptured,
abruptly truncate behind. Wings uniformly stained with pale yellow-
ish-fuscous ; nervures dusky honey-yellow. Legs honey-yellow ; tips
of the four anterior femora more or less, and the tibite exteriorly,
white; tarsi dusky. Abdomen ovate, not narrowed at base, with rather
close, deep and coarse punctures, much coarser than those of the tho-
rax ; first segment with a lateral transverse yellowish mark ubout the
middle, pointed within ; second segment with a broad basal yellowish
band, slightly interrupted in the middle; the third, fourth and fifth
segments each with a yellowish- white apical fascia, with the anterior
margin more or less uneven, dilated on the sides; apical segment
.srooDih, depressed, rounded at tip, with a whitish spot on each side at
base; beneath black, immaculate, finely punctured and shining. Length
(! lines ; expanse of wings 1(J lines.

Matr. — Resembles the female, but the head is not so transverse,
the markings are bright-yellow; the front, above the antennse, has a
large transverse spot; the anteonas are longer, curled at extreme tips,
the three basal joints are entirely yellow, the fourth, fifth and sixth
joints are yellow beneath and fuscous above, the five following joints
have a pule spot beneath, the apical joint is dilated, curved, compressed
and truncate at tip; the tarsi are paler; the wings more dusky at tips
and faintly subviolaoeous ; the abdomen is sometimes tinged with ful-

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vouB at base, the first segment has a more or lesa broad jellow band,
sometimeB widely, sometimes narrowly, interrupted in the middle; (he
band on the second segment is entire; the remaining segments have
the fasciiB similar to those in the female, and the eiith segment has
also a narrow fuscia on its apical margin ; the venter is more or less
tinged with pieeons, immuculate. Length same aa 9 ■

JuJ.— Pennsylvania (Cresson) ; Delaware (Dr. Wilson) ; Illinois
(Walsh and Kennieott); Kocky Mountains (Ridings) ; " North Caro-
lina and East Florida" (Smith). ' Coll. Em. Soo, Philud. and Chicago
Academy of Sciences.

Seven $ , sii £ specimens.

13. Fhilaathni frontalii, n. ep.

Blocit ; face above and beloir antennie,>base of aat«DD[B, callur, tubercles and
ft mark behind, tegule, postacut^llum, tibiie ftnd tftrsi, ftad uninterrupted faecin
on abdomen, yellow ; winga fulvo-fuscous : base of lega fulToua.

Mate. — Deep black, opa(|ne, very densely and deeply punctured,
slightly pubescent; head transversely ovate, prominent on the front;
the face beneath the antennje connected with a very large transverse
mark above the antennae, occupying nearly the entire front, clypeua,
spot on mandibles, and a spot or dot on each aide of the occiput, bright
lemon -ye How ; antennse shaped and colored as in P. vt-ntifabris. Tho-
rax : meaothorax with several longitudinal impressed linea, sometimes
obsolete ; collar, mberciea, and a large elongal* spot behind, tegulee,
and the poatscutellum, lemon-yellow; metathorax more densely and
finely aculptured, abruptly truncate behind. Winga pale fulvo-by aline,
darker and aubviolaceoua at tips ; nervures fuscous, stigma and costa
honey-yellow, paler anleriorly. Lega yellow; coxse, trochanters, and
femora, except tips more or less, honey-yellow; tibite sometimes dusky
beneath. Abdomen elongate, the sidea parallel, with close, very deep
and coarse punctures, much coarser than those of the thorax; the two
baaal aegments each with a broad, continuous, lemon-yellow band, that
on the first situated on the middle, that on the second at base, the lat-
ter sometimes emarginated on each side of the middle posteriorly ; fijur
following segments each with a narrow apical yellow fascia, more or
less uneven anteriorly and each gradually narrower than the other;
apical segment immaculate, rounded at tip; venter black, shining;
finely punctured, the segments with an obscure brownish stain on their
apical middle. Length 5i — 6J lines; expanse of wings 9 — 10 lines.

ffat.— Rocky Moun., Colorado Ter. (Ridings.) Coll.Ent.Soc.Phila.

Four % specimens ; J unknown. Closely allied to the preceding spe-
cies, and may possibly be a variety of it.

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14. PUUntlivi pnnotatoi, S&y.

fhUanthus punctaiia, Bay, Iiong's Second Expedition, ii, p. 342.
Anthopkilus gibbome. Dahlb., Hym. Europ. i, p. 102 J 9 .
Cheilopogonua purtcliger, Westw., ZoUl. Mag, v, p. 441, pi. 32, flg. 4.
Blsck; face, epaC between anteDnss, collar, Bjiot beneath the wingB, puslauu-
tellum, legs in part, brood band on eecoad abdominal segment and the narrow
apical margins of the following segmentB yellow ; winga duiliy.

FniKile. — Black, rather shiDing, with Urge, de«p, sparse puncturee,
slightly pubesceiit; head transverse, much wider than the thorax, the
vertex very deni^ly and finely punctured, the face, cheeks and occiput
sparsely si) ; sides of the face, clypeus, spot between the antetiDse, spot
on ba^ I'f luandiblei!, und a dot behind and another just above the
surouiit of the eyes, yellowish, sometimeB obaoure ; antennte bluck,
gradually thickened towards the tips, the scape yellowish beueath.
Thorax above with lurj.'e, deep scattered puucturea, smaller and more
dense on the pleura ; collar, tubercles and a spot behind, tegulie and
the postscntelium, yellow; metathurax closely and finely punctured,
pubescent, with au elongate, rather deep fovea on the disk. Wings
stained with pale fiiaooua, darker at tips, paler at base, slightly iride-
scent ; nervures fuscous, yellowish at base, as well as the costs and
stigma. Legs; ooxse, trochanters and base of femora, black, apical
half of the latter honey-yellow ; tibiae and tirsi yellowish, the latter
dusky at tips. Abdomen ov^ite, with large, very deep and coarse punc-
tures ; the incisures between the segments very deep ; basal segment
strangulated, and immaculate ; second segment with a broad, continu-
ous yellowish band at base; apical silbmargins of the two or three fol-
lowing segments with narrow yellowish, sometimes wavy, fascia ; apica)
segment smooth, shining, impunctured, immaculate, and roundeil at
tip; beneath black, shining, immaculate. Length 4^ — hi lines; ex-
panse of wings 7i — SJ Unes,

M'lti'. — Olosely resembles the female, but differs as follows : the be id
is less transverse, the face has only a yellow stripe on each side, a cen-
tral spot on the clypeus. and another of the same size on the middle ot*
the front, immediately above the untennte, the latter are longer, the
scape baa a yellow spot at tip within and the base of the flagellum is
ofti'n more or less tinged with yellowish; the scutellum has a yellow
spot or line, rarely wanting; the wings are darker towards the tips,
and subviolaceous. nearly hyaline at base; the basal segment of the
abdomen has occasionally a yellow dot on each side ; the two apicitl
segraenta and the venter are immaculate. Length same as 5 .

Ual. — Penn, (C'resson); New Jersey (Creseon); Delaware (Dr. Wil-
son); New York (Angus); Mass. (Ridings); Virginia (Ridings);

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"Indiana" (Westwood); IIliDois (Dr. Lewis, Wslsh and KemiiooU).
Ooll. Eat. Soc. Philad. and Chicago Academy of Sciences.
Six 9 1 eleven i specimens.

15. PUltntliui albitroni, n. sp.

Black ; face white ia 9, gidea of face, clypeua aod large round apot od the
troat in % also wh[Ce; interrupted line on collar, teguln, sput beneath the
wingB. line on postecutsllum, tibin and tarai, epot on each side of first abdomi-
nal Begment, broad interrupted band on second segment and apical fascin on

Ff-mah. — -Black, ahining, thinly pubescent; head and thorax with
sparse fine punctures, the former transverse and much broader thun
the thorax ; the face beneath the antennee, extending a little above on
the fronbtl orbits and a little eniargioated between the antennsa, and
the clypeus, white; mandibles, except tips, and a line behind the sum-
mit of the eyes, yellow; antennse black, rather short, thickened, base
of the flagellum narrowed, the joints with more or less distinct testa^
ceoos spots beneath, the scape whitish in front. Thorax : mesothoraz
sparsely punctured, with a broad shallow dorsal channel, and a finely
impressed longitudina] line op each side over the t«galce; scutellnm
with a centra) impressed line ; an interrupted line on the collar, a spot
beneath the anterior wing, poatscutclliun and the tegula). yellowish-
white; metathorax pubescent, closely and indistinctly punctured, with
a central impressed longitudinal line. Wingfl stained with fulvo-fus-
cous, darker and subviolaeeous at tips; nervures boney-yellow. Legs:
COZES iind trochanters black; femora boney-yellow, black at base and
yellow at tips, especially on the posterior pair ; tibife and base of tarsi
yellow ; rest of tarsi more or less dusky. Abdomen oblong-ovate,
strangulated at base, the second and third segments deeply incised at
base ; the three basal segments with very deep, large, scattered punc-
tures, t be apical segments almost impunctate, smooth and polished;
basal segment globose above with a yellow spot or dot on each side of
the middle ; second segment with a broad, median yellow band, always
interrupted in the middle; the three following segments with an apical,
continuous yellow band, dilated on the sides; apical segment dusky,
yellow at base ; beneuth piceoug, polished, the second and three follow-
ing segments with a yellow spot on each side, very small on the second
segment, and very large and sometimes coufinent on the following
segments. Length 6 lines; expanse of the wings 10 lines.

Muk. — Very similar to the female, diflfering principally in the orna-
mentation of the head, which has a broad line on each side of the fuce,
a large rounded spot on the front just above the anterfnie, the clypeus

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entirely except a. black dot on the apical middle, and an oblique line
or dot bebind the eyee, all white; the antenDse are loajcer and more
slender, especially so at base, entirety black except a whitish spot on
the second, third and fourth joints of the flagellum beneath ; the wingB
are mnch clearer, being only slightly dusky at tips; the fenjora are
entirely black except the tips, which are whitish ; the markings of the
abdomen are much the same, except that the narrow yellow or whl^b
tasciee on the apical mai^ins of the third and three following segments
are more or less wavy, the apical segment is black, and subtruncate at
tip ; beneath black, slightly pubescent, with a white dot on the extreme
aides of the second and following segments. Length 5J — (ij lines;
expanse of wings 9i— lOi lines.

Hah. — Rocky Mountains, Colorado Territory. (Ridings.) Coll. Ent.
Soc. Philad.

Five 9 , two % specimens. A very handsome and distinct species.
16. Fhitanthui flavlfroni, □. sp.

Black ; fdce, mandibles, base of antenntp, posterior orbits, collar, tegulm, two
Bpots beneath the wings, postsoutellum, two spots od metatborax. moat of lege,
and broad bands on abdomen, the two first interrupted, yellow; wings dusky.
Female. — Black, shining ; head without distinct punctures ; the face,
extending a little above the anteanse, both in the middle and sides,
olypeus, mandibles except tips, a long continuous line on the cheeks,
extending on to the occiput, and two small oblique lines behind the
ocelli, bright yellow; antennae black above, fulvous beneath, except
the three basal joinU which are yellow. Thorax polished, with fine
sparse punctures, very sparse ou mesothorax, which has u rather deep
dorsal ctannel and a faintly impressed longitudinal line on each aide
over the tegulse; collar, tubercles and a transverse spot behind, a large
triangular mark on each side of the pleura, tegnlee, an oblique spot at
each basal corner of the scutellum, a line on the postecntellum, and a
lai^e rounded spot on each side of the metathorax posteriorly, bright
yellow; Bcutellum longitudinally impressed on the middle; metathorax
very closely and rather finely punctured, slightly pubescent, with an
elongate rather deep fovea on the disk. Wings tinged with yellowish,
dusky at tips ; nervures dull honey-yellow. Legs yellow ; the coxas,
trochanters, and base of femora more or less, black, the former with a
white spot beneath; tips of the tarsi a little dusky. Abdomen ovate,
slightly strangulated at base, the second and third segments deeply in-
cised at base ; the three or four basal segments with very deep, large,
coarse punctures, becoming smaller towards the tip ; first and second
segments each with a large transverse bright yeilow spot on each side,

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those on the firat much the smalleat; the three followiog segments
with a broad, cootinnoua bright -yellow, apical band, more or Iras nar-
rowed in the middle anteriorly j apioiil segment dusky yellow; beneath,
die second and three following Begment§ are yellow, the apical middle
more or less dusky and the second with the basal corners black ; apiool
segment dusky. Length 5^ lines; expanse of wings 9it lines.

Hah. — Rocky Mountains, Colorado Territory. (Eidings.) Cotl.
Ent. Soc. Philad.

Two 5 specimens ; % unknown. This lovely and very distinct spe-
cies is readily distingaisbed from the preceding, by the yellow face,
the long continuous line on the cheeks, the two large spots on metatho-
rai and the yellow venter.

The following species are unknown to me : —
IT. Philanthu ■olivagu, 8a/.

Philanthm solitmgus, Saj, BoBt. Jaam. Fat. Hist, i, p. 3S3.

" Black, with Buiall punctures; tergnm fasciate on each segment.

" Inhabits Indiana,

" % Body black ; punctures numerous, small ; bypostoma, anterior
orbits, to the emargination, and large spot above the insertion of the
anteontB yellow : collar, margin yellow, slightly interrupted in the mid-
dle : stethidium immaculate : wing-scale yellow : wings very slightly
tinged with dusky; nervures fuscous, towards the base and. stigma
honey -ye 1 low : tergum, segments having each a greenish-yellow band
OD the posterior aubmargin, that of the first segment largest, the others
subequal ; sixth segment immaculate: pleura, pectus and venter im-
maculate : knees, tibife and tarsi yellow ; posterior pair of tibise with a
spot on the posterior tip, and their tarsi above tinged with ferruginous.

" Length two-fifths of an inch."

18. PhiUBtlini barbatn*, Smith.

I-MlantAus barbatut, Bmitb, Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. ir, p. 473.

" Male. Length 5 lines. — Black : closely and rather finely punc-
tured on the face ; the vertex shining, the punctures scattered ; the
anterior ocellus placed in a fossulet ; the clypeus, anterior margin of
the lace, inner orbit of the eyes not quite so high as their emargina-
tion, and a large ovate spot above the antennse, yellow; the face fur-
nished with a long dark beard on each side of the clypeus or its ante-
rior mar^n. Thorax shining, sparingly punctured ; a spot beneath
the wings and the postscutellum yellow ; wings fulvo-hyaiine, the ner-
vnres pale ferruginous. Abdomen shining, the first segment with a

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few l&rge deep punctures, or fovese ; the second negment with aimiUr
puDCturing; the third segmeot has a. few pnoctures on ite apical mnr-
giD ; a minute spot on each aide of the baeal eegiueat; a broad inter-
rupted lascia in the middle of the second segment; the third, fourth
and fifth segments with a narrow fascia on their apical taHrgins, nb-
mptly widened at the lateral niargius, yellow ; beneath, black.
'' //«/>.— North America."

19. PhiluitliiLi araliTgnlfciTmij, Smith.

flWoniAuj crabroni/ormig, Bmith, Brit. Mue, Cat. iv, p. tH.

■' Mak. Length 4J lines. — Black ; the face below the antennfc, with
a liae continued upwards along the orbit of the ejea ae hi<;h as the
emargination, a large campaaulate-shaped spot above the clypeus, a spot
behind the eyes, two on the vertex, the mandibles, scape, and three
baeal joints of the flagellum in front, yellow ^ the head large, shining,
finely but not closely punctured. Thorax : the hinder margin of the
collar raised, yellow, and subinteirupted in the middle; the tegulte.
tubercles, two spots beneath the wings, two on the acutellum, the post-
acutellum, a spot at tlie lateral posterior angles of the metutborax, the
apex of the femora, the tibise and the tarsi, yellow ; the wings fuWo-
hyaline, the nervurea pale ferruginous, with a faint cloud beyond the
marginal cell ; the mesothorax smooth and ahining, and having a few
Bcatt«red punctures; in the middle ia a deep longitudinal channel, and
B finer one on each side; the posterior margin closely punctured in
front of the scutellum. Abdomen shinipg, with deep scattered puno-
tares ; the first segment with a broad alightly interrupted band in the
middle; the second segment has a broad baud at its base, its hinder
margins waved ; the two following segments yellow, except their ex-
treme base ; the three apical segments entirely yellow.

" Hah. — California."

BUCES0SBI8, nov, gen.
Head large, wider than the thorax, 8uhquadrat«, wider and more
transverse in the 9 , with the face much broader anteriorly; eyes late-
ral, more or less ovate, entire; ocelli in a triangle on the vertex; au-
tennte snbclavate, inserted above the clypeus, in the middle of the face,
approximated; mandibles stout, acute or subacute at their apex; cly-
peus 3-toothed at tip, and trilohat* in % , scarcely so in ? . Thorax
ovate, the collar trantverse, the metathorax obtusely rounded or sub-
trnncate. VHngii : tfae anterior wing with one marginal and three sub-
marginal cells; the $ has the marginal cell obloog and obtusely rounded

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at tip, the first snbmarginal c«11 mach loDgei Uian the two ibllowiag,
Fig. i, 9 - the Becond triangalar, petiolated, and recemng the
S-C^^^^,,^^ first recurrent nervore before the middle, the third
^•^ ~~ Bubmarginal very lai^, snbqtiangalar, the tip ei-
ceediog that of the raai^nal, the second reoarrant neirnre uniting
vitb the second transverse cubital nervure (see Fig. 2); the I has the
mai^nal rather shorter, euhtriangular, eHpeciallj at base, trancate or
subtrunoate at tip, the posterior nervure descending in a gradual curve,
and the inferior edge in an angle, to meet the superior ungle of the
second submarginal cell, which is triangular and oblique, receiving the
Fig- 3, % . first recurrent nervure before the middle ; the second
I either unites with the second
? transverse cnbital nervure, or is received near to the
base of the third submarginal cell which is shaped much as in the 9 t
bat varying in being a trifle shorter and more quadrate (see Fig. ^.
Leg* Btout, rather strongly spinose, the posterior tibise serrate, the an-
terior tarsi cilhited exteriorly, but not strongly so. AbdoTnen as in

This genus is much more closely related to Cerceris than to Philan-
thiu, to which the two described species have been referred ; it differs
from the former genus especially in the nenration of the anterior wings,
which, however, shows a remarkable difference ia the male and female.

I. EoMrearii leuatu, Say.

PhilantKns tonatua. Say, West. <Jnar. Bep. n, p. T9 ; Amer. Entom. plate 49.
Black; face, line between antennce, collar, two Bpoti on icntellnm, line on
postacutellum, two marks on metathoraz, and bunds on abdomen, the firet two
broad, the otherH narrow, yellow; base of an ten nee, and legs honey-yellow;
wingB fuseoua, violaceana, ooata darker beyond the base; tegulce and legs
honey-yellow.

Ftmah: — Black, opaque, densely and deeply punctured, clothed with
a very short indistinct golden pile; the head large, very broad and
transverse, the face flattened, the lower part very wide, longitudinally
prominent between the antenns;' a large triangular mark on each side
of the face, the clypena except the extreme apical margin, and a longi-
tudinal mark between the antennee, yellowish ; lateral lobes of the cly-
pens a little concave, the central lobe sparsely punctured and shining ;
mostof the cheeks and occiput obscure ferruginous; mandibles polished,
reddish-brown, black at tip, with a large, triangular, obtuse, black-
tipped tooth above near the base ; antennaa slender, the basal half pale
rafoDS, the apical half black. Thorax : sides of the prothorax carinate,
the posterior mai^in yellow ; scutellnm dull ferruginous, with a yellow-

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iah spot OD each side at bue, as well u a liae od the postscnteDnm ;
metatfaonz densely and strongly pnuotored, with a la^ sabpyrifonn
yellow mark od each side, the paaotures od the eaclooed basal epace
maniDg into slightly oblique strife, with a finely impressed line down
the middle, continued to the tip of the metathorax ; tegulaa honey-
yellow. Wings fnli^nouB, much darker on the anterior margin, with
a deep violaoeous reflection; aervures fnsoous; costal nervnre honey-
yellow. Legs entirely honey-yellow. Abdomen opaque, very densely
and finely puoctured; first sc^pnent small, black, with a broad apieal
yellow band, deeply emarginated on the middle anteriorly ; second seg-
ment yellow, with the basal margin irregularly brownish, and a trans-
verse ferrt^^nous dask on the middle ; the three following segmenta
each with a narrow, continuous, subapical, yellow band; the extreme
apical margins of all the s^ments shining brown ; a stun on each side
of the third segment, and the apical segment almost entirely, reddish-
brows ; apical segment obtusely rounded at tip ; venter piceous, shin-
ing, sparsely punctured, the second segment fulvous. Length 7} lines;
expanse of wings 12 lines.

Male. — Differs from the female as follows .' — the face beneath the
antennae is entirely yellow, this color extending upwards on the ante-
rior orbit for a short distance above the insertion of the anteDnae ; be-
tween the antennte there is a longitndinal yellow line almost reaching
the anterior ocetlas; the mandibles are honey-yellow, black at tips;
the cheeks aud occiput are black, excepting a fulvous dot behind the
eyes ; the collar has a narrow intermpted yellow line, the postscatellum
a yellow line ; the BCutellnm is always black, generally immaculate, one
specimen only having a yellow dot on each basal corner; the tnetatho-
inly a small yellow spot or dot on each side at extreme tip,
s subobsolete; the tegulce has a yellow spot in front; the
wings are clearer, being subhyaline, with the broad anterior margin
commencing at the base of the first submai^inal cell of the wing, yel-
lowish-fascons, darker at tip and in the second submarginal cell ; the
legs are paler, with the tibi^ and tarsi more or less yellowish ; the
coxae, trochanters and femora within and at base, are sometimes black-
ish ; the abdomen is black, with the yellow markings much as in the 9 ,
except that the apical half only of the second segment is yellow, with
a transverse black line across the middle, more or less confluent in the
middle with the black at the base of the segment ; the sixth segment
with an interrupted, subobsolete yellowish wavy band at tip, sometimes
wanting, and occasionally the band on the fifth segment is abbreviated

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on e&ch Bide; apioal segment flattened, subquEtdrate, truncate at tip,
with the apical aa^lra acnte ; the venter has a traneveree reddiah^bromi
Btatn on the apes of the eeeond and ODe or more of the following seg-
ments. Length 6 — 8 lines ; expanw of wings 10 — 12} lines.

Hah. — "Arkansa," (Say); lUinoii, (Dr. Samuel Lewis and Mr.
Walsh.) Coll. Ent.8oo. Philad.

One 9 , six t specimens. ThU is donhtleas the PhUanthu* zonattu
of Say, although h« says nothing of the broad yellow bands on the
two basal segments of the abdomen.

t. BoMreOTis latteaps, n. sp.

Bluk : spot on each aide of face and posterior orbits 9 , base of &nteiiniH, and
mandibles except tipa ferruginouB; face of %, interrupted line on collar, spot
on each side of metathorax, and interrupted bandi on first and second abdomi-
nal oeglnentsi yellowiBh ; legs hone^^alloir ; wingi fnu:o>fajaliDe, mneh darker
on the anterior margin.

Female. — Black, opaque, very closely and deeply pnootored, clothed
with a very short iudistinct golden pubescence; head very wide, and,
as well as the &ce and miindihles, shaped as in the preceding species ;
an irregular triangular mark on each side of the face, a spot on middle
of clypeus, mandibles except tips and upper margin, and broad poste-
rior orbits, rufo-ferrn^nous ; antennfe slender, black, the three basal
joints fulvous. Thorax shaped and sculptured as in the preceding
species; a narrow interrupted line on the collar, and an ovate spot on
each side of the metathorax, obscure whitish ; postscntellam faiutly
tinged with brownish ; tegulse testaceous, with a yellow spot in front.
Wings colored as in the preceding sp>eciee. Legs bright huDcy-yetlow;
ooxse, trochanters and base of the femora behind more or lees blackish.
Abdomen shaped as in the preceding species, black; first segment
with abroad aubapical yellow baud, slightly interrupted in the middle;
second segment with a subtri angular yellow spot ou each side at tip;
apical segment tinged with browuish, upper surface flattened with the
sides acutely can nated and the tip obtuse ; beneath piceous, shiuing,
with the apical margins of the segmeota more or less brownish, length
7 lines; expanse of wings 12 lin^

MaU. — Differs from the female as follows : — the head not so broad ;
the face beneath the antenuie is yellow, this color extending upwards
on the anterior orbit for a short distance above the insertion of the
antennse; between the antennae there is a longitudinal yellow line
almost reaching the antArior ocellus; the clypens has a small black
line on each side of the middle lobe, with the three teeth at tip also
black ; the collar and metathorax are immaculate ; the wings are clearer

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except the anterior msr^n which is almoet as dark as in the 9 ; the
femora are almost entirely black beneath, and the tibiee are slightly
tinged with yellowish exteriorly ; the second and third segments have

each a aubapical, narrow, yellow fascia, that on the third sugueat in-
terrupted on each side ; apical segment subquadrate, sparsely pane-
tured, the sides raised, the tip Bubtrunaat«, the apical angles aonte;
beneath piceous black. Length 7 lines; expanse of wings 11} lines.

Hulj. — Massaohusetto. (Hidings.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Two 9 , one % , specimens. Very similar to £. ionotve in the shape
and scnlpture, but quite distinct by the different coloration.

i. EvaeToarii inperbna, n. sp.

Black ; face, mandibles, collar, spot beneath the wings, brsaet, base of lege
and broad bands on abdomen, yellow : most of legs honej-jellow , winge eub-
hyaline, first submarginal cell yellow, the tip beyond dark fuliginous, viola-

Male. — Black, slightly shining, very closely and deeply punctured,
thinly clothed with a short palish pubescence; the entire face beneath
the antennae, extending for a short distance upward on the anterior
orbit, a spot above and between the antennae, and the mandibles ex-
cept tips, bright yellow ; the cheeks have a dull rufous stain ; antenaee
black, the five or six basal joints fulvous, tinged with yellowish be-
neath, the scape entirely yellow beneath. Thorax: a continuous line
on the collar, tegulie, a spot beneath the wings, and a large triboled
spot on the breast, between the four anterior coxec, lemon-yellow ; en-
closed basal apace of metafhoras transversely striated, with a deep
central longitudinal tine. Wings subhyaline ; the second submarginal
cell bright yellow, beyond whifh the apex is dark fuliginous, with a
brilliant violaceous reflection ; the nervures dull honey-yellow. Legs
honey-yellow; the coxae and trochanters beneath, the four anterior fe-
mora beneath, and the tarsi more or less, lemon -yellow. Abdomen
strangulated at base, the segments strongly contracted at their sutures,
and transversely impressed across their middle ; the first five segments
have eaoh a broad, continuous bright yellow band, leaving merely the
anterior and posterior mai^ins black; the two apical segments black,
the sixth with a yellowish dot on each side, the seventh immaculate
and shaped as in the two preceding species; venter shining; first seg-
ment with a large yellow central mark ; the second and third segmentn
honey-yellow, the former with a transverse bilobed yellow mark at tip.
remaining segments piceous- black, the apical margins fringed with long,
curved, fuscous pubescence. Length 7 lines; expanse of wings 13
lines.

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Var. % . — Much smaller, the markiDgs are lemon-yellow, tlie mark
between and above the insertioa' of the antennee id aomeifhst wed^-
shaped ; the ferruginouB staia on the cheek ia large, with a yellowish
line on the posterior orbit ; the line on the collar ia slightly interrupted
in the middle; the breast hae a Bemtcircolar yellow line on each side
of the middle, where they are almost confluent; the postscutelliim has
a narrow yellow line, and the metathoraz a subpyriform mark on each
side ; the wings are paler, though similarly colored ; the legs are pale
honey-yellow, with the cozfe and trochanters beneath, and the poste-
rior tibiae esteriarly, yellow ; the markings of the abdomen are the
same, except that the band on the fifth segment has a black dot on the
middle of the anterior margin, the sixth segment has a band deeply
emarginated in the middle anteriorly, and the second ventral segment has
an interrupted yellow line, while the two or three following segmenta
are brownish, with an obsolete yellowish spot on each side. Length
5 lines; expanse of wings 9 J lines.

Hah. — Rocky Mountains, Colorado Territory. (Ridings.) Coll. Ent.
Soo. Philad.

Two i specimens ; ? unknown. This is indeed a superb species,
the color and markings are bright and handsome, and the wings bean-
(ifully colored.

i. Eaoeiaerli flavoainetDi, u. ep.

Blact ; spot on each aide of face, line between antennn, Spot at baae of cly-
peUB, Bpot b(!htiid eyes, interrupted line on collar, teguls, tibiee and entire faB-
ciee on abdomen, jellow; tarsi fuWoua; wings eubhyaline, the anterior mar-
gin fuacoua.

Female. — Beep black, shining; bead not nnnsaally wide, closely
punctured ; a cuneiform mark on each side of the face, a line between
the anteonse, pointed above, dilated beneath, and confluent with a
transverse spot on the middle of the clypens, which bus sometimes a
yellow dot on each lateral lobe, and a spot behind the eyes near their
summit, yellow ; anterior margin of the clypeus broadly emarginated ;
mandibles and autennro black, the base of the fiagellum slightly tinged
with dull testaceous. Thorax shining aboTC ; mcitothoras and acu-
tellum with scattered, rather fine punctures, the former with a short
impressed line on each side over the tegulte ; pleura closely punctured ;
metathorax finely sculptured, the punctures running into fine trans-
verse striiB especially on the sides, the enclose() basal space covered
with fine, slightly oblique strite, and with a deep central longitudinal
channel ; an interrupted line on the collar, and sometimes another on
the postscutellum, yellow; tegulie houoy-yellow, with a yellow spot in

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troaL WiDgB sabbyaline, tinged with yellomsh, the ooeta, from the
base of the first Bubm&rgiDsl oell to the apex of the wjng, fuaooiu ; ner-
Torea hoaej-yellow. Legs black ; extreme tipe of the femora, and the
tibin, except the two anterior pairs within, yellow; tarei honey-jellow.
Abdomen shining, cloeelj punctured, the basal segment depreaaed ; the
flret five eegmantfl above each with an entire snbapical, bright yellow
tkeoia, that on the first segment very slightly interrapted in the middle,
that on the second slightly dilated in the middle ; apical segment im-
maoolate, the dorsal surface oblong, opaqoe, the apex obtose, the cari-
nated sides fringed with foscooa pabescence, the sides of the segment
deeply excavated ; beneath black, shining, immaculate, each segment
iritb a deep longitudinal depression on the apical middle, and their
a[Hcal mai^ns with deep scattered puuctures. Length 6—7 lines;
expanse of wings 10 — 11 lines.

Bah. — Rocky Moaatains, Colorado Territory. (Ridings.) Coll. Ent.
Soc. Philad.

Two 7 specimens; % unknown.

6. Xnoenerit oinfalatu, n. ep.

Black : face, line batveen kuteniiK, mandibl
tuberclea, poBtsontellum, gpot beneath the win.
ou abdomen, abOTe and beneath, yellow ; win

Male. — Black, shining, thinly clothed with pale pubescence; head
closely and finely punctured ; face, clypens, mandibles except tips,
fVoatal orbits, a line between the antennae, and a spot behind the eyes
near their summit, lemon-yellow ; antennn black, the scape yellow be-
neath. Thorax above shining, with rather deep, sparse punctures, the
pleura closely punctured; a line over the collar, tegnlss, line on post-
soutellnm, spot beneath the wings, and most of the breast between the
four anterior ooxie, lemon-yellow; metathorax densely punctured,
<^)aque, the enclosed basal space a little shining, covered with fine
transverse, or slightly oblique strife, and with a deep central longitu-
dinal channel. Wings stained with yellowish, especially on the costs;
nerrures honey-yellow. Legs lemon-yellow ; the coxae, trochanters
and femora within, black ; tarsi tinged with houey.yellow. Abdomen
with a continuous, lemon-yellow, subapioal fascia on each segment, ez-
o^t the last, that on the second broadest and transversely emarginated
in the middle anteriorly; apical segment immaculate, sobquadrate,
the carinated lateral nai^n ending in a divergent acute tooth on each
side at tip ; beneath shining, the seoond and three following segments
each with a broad lemon-yellow band, broadest on the second segment.
Length 5} — 6} lines; expanse of wings 9} — 10} lines.

ibleB. spot behind the ejee, collar,
tDgiibreaet, legs, and entire bands
nga atained with jellowi»h.

sasiGoOi^le

Sab. — Rocky MoantMoa, Colorado -Territoiy. (lUdings.) Coll. Ent
Soo. Philmd.

Two i speoitneiu. This miy be tha t of £. flavoemetu*.

B. SsMrMrii fnlvlpM, d. sp.

Black; aides of face, line between antennn, clypeus entirely in %, inter-
rmpted into three apoU in JrCoH'r, two or three spota beneath the winga, tega-
\», two targe spota on metathorai, line on both watelluma, and entire band*
on abdomen, jellow; legs fttlvoua, wings hjaline, the apical coatal margin
huoons, violaceouB.

Female. — Black, sbining, deeply and doeely paoctured, more sparse
on the mesotliorax and scuteUum ; a apot on each side of the face, a
line between the antennn, a spot on each side of the olypeus, and a
oaneiform spot behind the eyes, yellowish ; middle of clypens and the
mandibles ftilvous, the latter black at tips, one specimen has a yellow
spot on the middle of the clypens; antennee black, the scape within
at tip, and the third and fonrth joints of the flagellam, fulTons. Tho-
rax : line on the collar, tubercles and a spot behind, line on the son-
tellum and postsoatoHum, a large ovate spot on each side of the meta-
thorai, and a small oblique line on each aide of the enclosed basal
space, pale yellowish; the latter obliquely striBt«d, with a deep central
channel ; tegulse fulvous, sometimes with a spot in front. Wings hya-
line; the costs, fkim the base of the first submai^nal cell to the apex
of the wing, broadly yellowish-fuscous, slightly violaceous; neiVures
honey-yellow. Legs entirely bright fulvous. Abdomen shining, with
deep sparse punctures ; basal segment with a broad pale yellow band,
contracted in the middle; second and three following segments each
with a continnous, eubapioal, pale yellow band^ more or less dilated on
the sides; apical segment immaculate, tinged with brownish, opaque,
shaped and sculptured as in 9 E. Jlavocinctui ; beneath black, immac-
ulate. Length 5i lines; expanse of wings 7i lines.

Male. — Differs from the female as follows r — the sides of the face
are broadly yellowish- white, extending for a short distance above the
antenna on the anterior orbit ; there is a yellowish spot just above the
clypeus, connected with a line of the same color between the antennse
which reaches t«the anterior ocellus; the olypeus entirely, the man-
dibles except tips are yellowish-white; the spot behind the eyes is
round ; the scape ia yellowish within, and the second, third and fourth
joints of the flagellum are fulvous ; there are two lai^ yeltoinsh-
wbite marks between the wings, the lower one connected beneath with
a longitudinal mark of the same color between the four anterior cos» ;
the enclosed basal space of the metathorax is immaouhite ; all the oozse

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and trochaoters beneath, ond the anterior femora and tibiee in front,
are white ; the markings of the abdomen above are much the same.
except that the eixth segment has a band similar to that on the fifth ;
the apical segment is entirely fulvous, with a divergent tooth on each
side at tip ; the veuter is pale fulvous, the second and third segments
have each a whitish hand, the former sinuate anteriorly, and the third
segment has a whitish spot on each side. Length 4} lines; expanse
of winga ~i lines.

Hah. — Rocky Mountains, Colorado Territory. (Ridings.) Coll. Ent.
Soc, Philad.

T. EaDSiceiis oaualiealBtaa, Bb.j.

Phitanlhua eanalicvlattu, Saj. WesL Qa&r. Bep. ii, p. 79; .Inierican Ento-
mologj, plate 49.

" Pale yellow; vertex, disk of the thorax, and incisures of the ter-
gnm, reddish -brown.

" Body pale yellow ; vertex reddish-brown ; iront with two longi-
tudinal reddish-brown lines passing through the base of the antennro ;
antennas rufous, black at tip; mandibles black at tip : superior wings
with a longitudinal brownish line on the middle from near the base to
the tip ; radial cellule rounded at tip, and at its inferior angle descend-
ing to meet the superior angle of the second cubital cellule, which is
triangular: lergum with a transverse groove on the middle of each
segment, and a marginal smaller one; incisures reddish-brown.

" Obx, — When traversing the Arkansaw region with Major Long's
party, I obtained a single specimen of this insect, which is a male ; it
is so very similar in general appearance and color to Cerceris bidentata
nob., that but for ite generic differences, I should almost have been led
to consider it as a mere sexual variety of that species. But it cannot be
placed in the genus GercerU, as the mandibles are entirely unarmed
within, and the second cubital cellule is not petlolated, and the eyes
are not emaiginaled."

This species is unknown to me. The size of this insect is not given
in the description, but the figure on the plate measures li lines in

Genua CEBCEBIB, Latr.
Head large, wider than the thorax, suhquadrate; eyes lateral, ovate,
entire ; ocelli in a triangle on the vertex ; antennte suhclavate, in-
serted above the clypeus in the middle of the fiice, approximated,
maadibles stout and tridentate, acute or subacute at their apex ; olj'-
peus trilobed, the middle lobe being oft«n produced into various
shapes. Thorax ovate, the collar trausverse, the metathorax obtusely

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rouoded or Bubtmnoate. Witigt : the ADterior wing with one mar-
ginal and three eubmarginal cells; the marginal oblong and obtnaely
Fig. 4. rounded at tip ; the first tiubmarginal cell kinger

than the two following, the aeoood trUngnlar or Bub-
I triiingiUar, petlolated, aod receiving the first recnr-
na\ nervnre about the middle ; the third moderate, obliquely 8ub<
quadrate, much narrowed towards the marginal and receiving the se-
cond recurrent nervure near itn base. Legg atont, spinose, the poste-
rior tibiae more or less serrate, the anterior tarsi ciliated exteriorly.
Alionu-n oblong, tbe first segment narrowed to one-half the width of
the following, and subglobose, the mai^ns of the segments more or
less constricted ; the apical segment with its dorsal surface flattened,
bordered on either side by a sharp carii.a, and a lateral oblique plane
also bordered by a cariDH.

I. Caroerii fDmipennU, B&y.

Cereerii futniptnnii, Bay, Bost. Jouro. Nat. Hiet. i, p. 381.

Cerceru eineta, Dahlb., Hjm. Europ. i, p. 104 % .
Block : three 8ubqaadrat« spots »n face, two spots on eoljar, poBtsoatellam,
tmd bruod b&nd on second aegment of abdomen, yellowiah- white ; wings black-
ish.

Ff.mak. — Deep black, strongly punctured, clothed with a short pale
subsericeous pubescence, hoary on the thorax beneath, legs and abdo-
men; head closely punctured, with a large subquadrate, pale yellowish
mark on each side of the face and a semicircular or subovate one on the
central lobe of the olypeua, sometimes mnch reduced, the lateral lobes
densely frioged with a pale ochraceous pubescence ; anterior margin
of the clypens truncate and cariuute. Thorax more deeply and leas
closely punctured than the head, sericeous, especially the plenra and
metathorax ; a transverse spot on each side of tbe collar, and the
poetscutellum, pale yellowish ; metathorax abrupt and coarsely punc-
tured, the enclosed triangular basal space finely sculptured and some-
times shining; teguUe shining black, sometimes with a pale spot In
front. Wings dark fuliginous, black along the costa, with a deep vio-
laceous reflection ; nervuree black. Legs black, sericeous and some-
what hoary ; a line on the four anterior tibim within, and most of the
posterior pair, yellowish-white; tips of anterior tarsi testaceous. Ab-
domen covered with a beautiful hoary sericeous pile, more obvious in
certain lights, and with deep punctures, rather sparse on the second
segment, and becoming closer on the apical segments ; first segment
small, subglobose, flattened at base, second segment convex, with a
broad, apical, pale yellow band, more or less attenuated in the middle

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auMriorly ; third segment often with a email jellow spot on each side at
tip, sometimeB reduced to a mere dot, and sometimes entirely wanting ;
the third and following segments deeply incised at base; vent«r imma-
oalate. Length 5J — 10 lines ; expanse of wings 9 — 15 lines.

JUiih. — Resembles the female, but differs as follows : — the mark on
each side of the face is larger and elongate, the clypeus has a large
suborbicular, yellowish-white mark, often much reduced or entirely
wanting; the clypeus has the lateral fringe golden-yellow, very bril-
liant in certain lights ; the tegulee has a yellowish- white spot, rarely
wanting; the winga are clearer; the band on the second segment of
the abdomen is of equal width and not narrowed on the anterior
middle ; the four following segments have each a narrow fascia, often
more or less interrupted, and sometimes obsolete, especially in the
middle; sometimes the abdomen is marked as in the female, with
the lateral spot on the third segment always present. Length 5 — 6i
linesj expanse of wings 8 — 9^ lines.

Sab. — Massachusetts (Ridings); Delaware (Dr. Wilson); Illinois
(Walsh); Louisiana (Ken nicott). Coll. Ent. Soc.Fhilad., and Chicago
Academy of Sciences.

Seventeen 9 , fourteen % specimens. Easily rec<^nized by the
blackish wings, and the broad pale yellowish band on the second ab-
dominal segment. The females vary much in size.

2. CBTOBrii olrpeata. Dahlb.

Cerceris clypeaia, Dahlb., Hyin. Europ. i, p. 221.
Blaok; face more or leaa, two spots on collar, poBlaoatellum, apot on each
side of first abdoniinal segment in <p , broad band on aecond, narrow ap[cal
margins of remaining aegments except last, and part of lega, yeliow ; wings
dusky.

Fi-mtile. — Black, opaque, closely and strongly punctured, clothed
with a short palish pubescence; on each side of the face a longitudinal,
more or less developed, orbital yellow mark; the carina between the
antennae sharply defined, sometimes with a minute yellowish spot or
line above the clypeus, sometimes there is a yellow spot behind the
eyes near their summit; clypeus more or less produced in the middle,
sometimes greatly so, the upper surface moderately convex, the lower
concave, the apical margin truncated, arcuated, or more or less emargi-
nated, the lateral angles sometimes subacute ; above, there is a trans-
verse yellow spot, sometimes covering the entire surface, sometimes
much reduced, sometimes there is a yellow spot beneath; lateral lobes
sometimes with a yellow spot on each extreme side, and an apical
fringe of palish pubescence ; mandibles black or piceous-black, more

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or \tsa yellowish at base, sometimes obsolctely so; ntiUnnffl black, the
flagellum piceoafl, puter beueuth, especially at base and apex, the scape
oftea with a yellowish line in froDt. Thorax deeply and closely puDC-
tured ; & spot od each Bide of the pruthorax above, sometimea wanting,
a traosvene line on postscut«llum, aod sometimes a spot on each side
of the metathorax, yellow ; luetathorax coarsely punctured or subru-
gose, the triangular upaee at base longitudioally, or slightly obliquely
striated, the tip of this space has sometimes a few very fine transverse
striie; tegulse testaceous, sometimes dusky, with a large yeHo wish spot
above or in front. Wings smolty-hjaliue, with a more or less deep vio-
laceous reflection, the marginal cell and apex fuliginous; sometimes
the wings have a brassy reflection. Lega black ; tips of the femora
r testaceous, sometimes fuscous; sometimes the posterior pair vary from
almost entirely yellow to almost entirely black, generally the apical
half is dull testaceous or yellowiah-fuscous ; in one specimen the inter-
mediate femora arecntirely honey-yellow, except their extreme base; the
tibiie are yellow, sometimes tinged with fulvous, the posterior pair are
fuscous at tip within ; tarsi testaceous, the posterior pair entirely dusky
or blackish. Abdomen closely and rather deeply punctured, the seg-
ments strongly constricted at base; first segment with a yellow spot
on each side, sometimes reduced to a dot; second segment with a broad
Bubapica! yellow band, more or leas narrowed in the middle anteriorly ;
the three following segments each with a contiDuous, narrow, subapical,
yellow hand, broader laterally, aometimcH the hand on the fifth seg-
ment is nearly as broad as that on the second, and similarly shaped ;
rentral segments with the apical half somewhat prominent and sub-
rugose, the basal half smooth and sometimes piceotts or testaceous.
Length 5i — 1 lines; expanse of wings UJ — 11 lines.

Miih. — Difiers by the face being entirely yellow; the aatennEe
longer, the scape always yellow in front, and the flagellum mostly
dusky- fulvous or testaceous beneath ; the clypeus flat and covered with
sparse punctures ; one specimen only, has a transverse yellow line on
the scutellum similar lo that on the postscutellum, and the metathorax
has a yellow spot on each side ; the under side of the coxse, trochanters
and femora more or less, yellow ; the femora a^ove, except extreme
tips (which are fulvous), and the apical half of the posterior pair
beneath, black, sometimes the latter have the basal half yellow ; tibiie
and tarsi much as in the female, but more yellowish, with the tips of
the posterior tibife more or less' dusky or blackish, sometimes the en-
tirely upper surface is dusky, and the base of their tarsi pale; the

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baaal Begmentof the abdomen is generally iminacakte, rarely with two
yellow Bpote as in the female ; the band oa the second Begment is gene-
rally of equal breadth, sometimes slightly aairowed on the aot^rior
middle ; the enbapioal fasciie on the remaining sevMicnte are very
narrow, widening a little on each side, and sometimes slightly inter-
rupted in the middle, generally on the sixth segment, which has some-
times an ovate spot on each side ; the second, third and fovirth ventral
segments have sometimea a small yellow spot on each side, sometimes
reduced to a mere dot, but generally wanting. Length ii — 6 lines;
expanse of wings "J — !3J lines.

ffah. — Massachusetts (Ridings, Stratton) ; New York (Angus) ; N.
Jersey, Pennsylvania (CresBon) ; Delaware (Dr. Wilson) ; Virginia
(Ridings); Illinois (Kennlcott and Walsh) . Coll. Ent. Soe. Philad.
and Chicago Academy of Sciences.

Eleven 9 , twenty-one % specimens. In the female the clypeus va-
ries much in shape, being more or less produced, sometimes subporrect
and elougate-quadrate, with the concave under surface hid from view;
while in other specimens the projection is very short, with the entire
under aide visible ; the apical margin vuries from truncate and arcuate,
to deeply emai^inate, the lateral angles forming subacute teeth.

3. CerMrU venatoT, n. ip.

Black; face, interrupted line on collar, line od postacutellum, broad band
on second abdominal segment, more or leae emarginsted on anterior middle,
and narro IT apical inargiaB of repnaiQing segments, yellow i legs fulvous and
jrellow; wings aubhyoline, apical margins fuseaua.

Male. — Black, rather closely and deeply punctured, clothed with
a gulden-yellow pubescence, much paler and Bomewhat whitish oa the
pleura, metathoras and abdomen; the face entirely, basal half of maa-
dibles, sjiot on the scape of ani«nnse in front, luterrupted line oo the
collar, transverse line on postacutellum, and tcgulse, yellow; anteun»
black, tinged more or less with ferruginous at base, the apical joint
Ourved, and truncate at tip ; the triangular enclosed space of the meta-
thorax, smooth and shining, with a finely impressed line down the
middle. Wings subhyaline, slightly tinged with honey-yellow, iiud
with a more or less brilliant violaceous reflection; apical margins fus-
cous; nervures honey -yellow. L^;s fulvous; anterier cox re, trochan-
ters and femora beneath except tipn, and the four posterior femora at
base within, more or leas black ; the anterior tibiee and tarsi more or
less, the four posterior coxse and trochanters beneath, base of the pos-
terior femoru, th# intermediate tibiie and bLrsi, a line on the posterior
tibise beneath, sometimes wanting, and their tar«, yellow ; tips of tarsi

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dnsky. Abdomen : basal segment general); black, iinmaoaUte, some-
times wholly or in part fernigiaouB, as well as Bpots od extreme sides
of the remaining segments; second segment with a broad, apical, yel-
low bund, rouoded on each side anteriorly and more or less deeply
emargtnated in the middle; the fonr following segments each with a
narrow apical yellow fascia, sometimes a little dilated on the sides;
apical segment flatteoed, sparsely and deeply punctured, eubtruncate
at tip, and with a lateral tuft of dense golden pubescence ; in one spe-
cimen the upper surface of this segment is fulvous, and the four pos-
terior femora not stained with black within ; venter generally black,
sometimes more or less stained with fulvous. Length 8 lines ; expanse
of wings 121 lines.

Ball. — New York (Angus) j New Jersey, Pennsylvania (Cresson) ;
Illinois (Dr. Lewis) ; Kansas (Dr. Wilson) ; Louisiana (Kennioott).
Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad, and Chicago Academy of Sciences.

Tea £ specimens; $ unknown. A large well marked species, with
the ornamentation of the thorax and abdomen somewhat similar to that
of C. rlgpenta ? .

4. CarBsriB bioomnta, Godr.

Cercerit hieomitta, Gudr., Icon. Bif. Anim. p. 443; Bmith, Brit Mai. Cot.
Hyoi. iv. p. 4ee.

Slack, often more or leas varied with ferroginoua; orbita, postacutellum
and band or two spots on first and second abdominal segments, yellow ; legs
falvous ; wings fuscous.

Femiik. — Black, deeply and rather closely punctured, clothed with
a short golden pubescence, whitish on the metathorax ; moat of the
cheeks and occiput, clypens, and mandibles except tips, ferruginous;
the frontal orbits more or less obscure yellowish, as well as the carioi-
fbrm process between the ant«nnie ; middle lobe of the clypeus lunate,
not very ptominent, the lower half concave and polished, the angles of
t^e lunate projeclioD short and subacute, apical margin of the clypens
uneven ; sometimes the base of the mandibles is more or less yellow ;
antennffi ferrugiDous, block at tips, sometimes the flagellum is almost
Mitirely block. Thorax : a band on the collar, often interrupted, and
sometimes very indistinct, the scutellum, a large spot on each side of
metathorax, and the t«gulm ferragiooas ; sometimes the scutellum and
metatborus are entirely black ; postscutellum yellow in all the speci-
mens before me ; the triangular basal space of the metathorax deeply
punctured on the sides, always black. Wings fuscous, rather darker
on the apical margins, with a violaceous reflectio* ; nervures block.
Legs falvo-ffirragiDOOB, sometimes black at haw; posterior tabiee more

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or less yellow exteriorly. Abdouen with the aegipents stroogly con-
tracted at base, either black or ferruginous; first segment more trans-
verse than usual, with a yellow spot on each side, sometimes large and
nearly confluent, sometimes reduced to a dot ; second segment with a
large yellow mark on each side, also sooietimes nearly confluent, and
sometimes reduced to an elongate oblique spot; remaining segments
either entirely bkck, fuscous, or ferruginous with the incisures black,
and sometimes the basal middle of the segments stained with blackish ;
the venter black, sometimes ferruginous banded with black, hength
8i — 9i hues; expanse of wings 12 — 145 lines.

Bab. — New York (Angus); New Jersey and Pennsylvania (Ores-
son); "Delaware, fieorgia" (Smith); Louisiana (Ken nicott). Ooll.
Ent. Soc. Philad. and Chicago Academy of Sciences.

Six $ specimens; % unknown. This is a fine large species, ex-
ceedingly variable in coloration.

i. Oereerii biangnlat^ a- sp.

Black; sides of the face, two spots on prothorai, l^gulte, postaeutellum, sides
of metatborax, and the five baaal segtnentB of abdomen aboTe, except a fer-
ruginous stain at base, yellow ; clypeus with a large acutely lunate projection
proceeding from its base ; wiuga hyaline, fuscous at tips.

Female. — Black, closely and rather finely punctured, sparsely clothed
with a pale pubescence; ctypeus with a large acutely lunate process,
proceeding from its base, like two claws diverging from each other,
and connected at their bases ; sides of the face, the clypeal projection,
except ite lateral and apical margins, base of the mandibles, a spot be-
hind the summit of the eyes, and the scape of the antennte in front,
rather obscure yellowish; margins of the clypeal projection, its under
surface, the cheeks, and the basal half of the antennae, ferruginous;
the vertes, immediately behind the ocelli, has a few obsolete ferrn^-
nous dots. Thorax: two transverse spots on the collar, a small spot
beneath the anterior wing, tegulee, postscutellum, and a very large sub-
triangular mark on each side of the metathorax, yellow; the scutellum
is tinged with obscure ferruginous ; the triangular basal space of the
metathorax is finely striated longitudinally ; wings obscure hyaline,
with a slight purplish iridescence, the coftal and apical margins nar-
rowly fuscous, darker on the apex of the anterior pair ; nervures fer-
ruginous. Legs fulTO-ferruginous; tips of the four anterior femora,
especially within, and the posterior pair exteriorly, as well as most of
all the tibisB, yellow. Abdomen yellow, the segments strongly con-
stricted at base, with a basal pale ferruginons stain, broader on the an-
terior segments, that on the basal segment separating the yellow into

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two large eemiciroular spots, that OQ the second s^ment lai^ and tri-
angular, on the remaining segments this stain becomes narrower, and
slightly blackish at extreme base ; the sutures also blackish ; apical
select ferruginous, black at base and apex) venter fulvo-ferru^uous,
vith a black band at the baae of the third, fourth and fifth segments.
Length 7 lines; expanse of wings 12{ lines.

Boh. — Rocky .Mountains, Colorado Territory. (Ridings.) Coll.
Ent. Soc. Philad.

One $ epecimsD j % unknown. This beautiful species is at once
recognized by the large and singular projection of the clypeus, as well
as by the handsome ornamentation. Answers somewhat to the de-
scription of C. buhntata Say, but not enough to warrant their iden-
tity certain, •

n. CerceriB lexta, Sitj.

Cerceria aexta. Say, Boat. Journ. Hat. Hiet. i, p. 382.
Black; face, two epats on collar, tegulm, poBtacutellum, apot on each aide of
metathorai, and broad banda on abdomen, yellow; legs yellow and fulvoua ;
winga Bubbyaliae.

Male. — Black, closely punctured, clothed with a thin pale yellowish
pubescence) face entirely, mandibles except tips, a dot behind the
eyes near their summit, sometimes wanting, and the scape in front,
yellow, sometimes whitish ; basal half of antennte bright ferruginous,
the remainder black. Thoras ; two large transverse spots on pro-
thorax, tegulfe, postseutellum, and an ovate spot on each side of the
metathoras, sometimes reduced to a dot, yellow ; sometimes the sou-
tellum is faintly tinged with browaisb ; the triangular basal space of
the metuthoras shining, with slightly oblique striee on the sides and a
well -impressed longitudinal one in the middle. Wings tinged, more
or less, with fuscous, the tip and apical margins darker, covering the
marginal cell ; nervures pale ferruginous, the stigma yellowish. Legs
bright yellow, the four anterior femora behind, except tips, the apical
half of the posterior femora, their tibise and tarsi within and above,
fulvous; base of the four anterior femora beneath and the poeterior
pair within, black. Abdomen more elongate and rather narrower than
usual, with the segments strongly contracted at base; the basal seg-
ment subglobose, either black or ferruginous, with a large or small
yellow spot on each side; the five following segments with a more or
less broad, continuous subapioal, bright yellow band, slightly narrowed
on the middle anteriorly, where the bands are sometimes obsoletely
margined with obscure ferruginous; beneath sometimes stained with
ferruginous, the second to fifth segments each with a more or less de-

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Teloped latent yellow spot, Bometimes almoet oonflnent on the di^k.
Length 61 — 8 linea ; expaage of wings 11 — 12^ lines.

Hab. — Rooky MouDtsins, Colorsdo Territory. (Ridings.) Coll. Ent.
Soo. Philsd.

Six % epeoimeDB ; $ unknown. May possibly be the male of the

7. Csrurii vioina, □. sp.

Black i aide* of face, cljpeus, ecape of a
tefnlie, line on poBtBcalflllani, two spnU on metathorax, eometimes wanting,
and bread bands on abdomen, fellovj legs mOBtl; honey-jellow; winga fos-

Fumalf. — Bkck, oloeely and deeply punctured, sparsely clothed with
pale pubescence^ clypeus scarcely prominent except at tip which is
somewhat produced and subtruQCBt« ; sides of the face broadly, cly-
peus except apical margin, base of mandibles, sometimes a dot above
the clypeuB, a dot behind the summit of the eyes, and the scape in
front, lemon-yellow ; soraedmes the lateral lobes of the clypeus are
blackish with a yellow spot on each; antennse fulvous, blackish at
tips above. Thorax : oollar tinged more or less with ferrugiaous, a
transverse spot on each side, tegaiss, postaoutellum, and a more or less
developed elongate-ovate spot on each side of the metathoras, wanting
in one specimen, yellow ; triangular basal space of metathorax opaqne,
and covered with dense elongate striee. Wings yellowish -fuscous,
darker on apical margins and marginal cell, and with a violaceous re
flection. Legs honey-yellow, tips of the four anterior femora, their
tibite and most of their tarsi, the posterior femora beneath, and their
tibife and tarsi exteriorly, yellow. Abdomen : first segment more or
less ferrnginous in two specimens, in one immaculate, in the other with
a lateral yellow spot, and in the third specimen black with a broad,
slightly interrupted yellow band ; second segment with a very broad
yellow band, leaving only the basal margin of the segment black; the
three following segments each with an apical yellow band, broad on
the sides and much narrower on the middle anteriorly, that on the fifth
B^ment the broadest ; apical segment more or less ferruginous.
venter banded with fulvo-ferruginous. length 51 lines; expanse of
wings 101 lines.

Hab. — Rocky MouDtains, Colorado Territory. (Ridings.) Coll. Eat.
Soo. Philad.

Three 7 specimens; % unknown. Closely related to the preceding
species, but smaller.

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s. OsTMrii raflnoda, n. Bp.

Bl&ck ; f&ca, two apoU on collar, teguin, spot under the wtng, two ipota
on Bcntcllam, tips of femora, tibiiB and tarsi, and bands on eecond and four
falloving Begmenta of abdomen, j/ellowj basal segment rufous; wings dusky.

Vale. — Black, closely and rather deeply punctured ; the fuce en-
tirely, extending up on each side Dearly to the summit of the eyes, a
narrow line between the aotenns, mandibles except tips and the scape
in front, lemon-yellow ; antennce fulvous, the flagellum dusky above,
the scape above, and b»sal joint of fliigellum, blackish. Thoras : an
interrupted band on ihe collar, tegulse, a spot beneath the wings, a
rounded spot on each side of the aeutellum, and a transverse line on
the postficutellum, lemon-yellow; the aeutellum sparsely punctured ;
the triangular basal space of the iiiet«thorax transversely striated at
tip, with a central longitudinal impressed line. Wings tinged with
fuscous, nervures fuscous. Legs : coxes, trochanters, and most of the
femora, black; tips of all the femora, especially the two anterior pairs
beneath, all the tibise, except the tips of the posterior pair, and base
of the tarsi, lemon-yellow ; posterior temora ferruginous at base ; most
of the tarsi dusky. Abdomen closely and rather coarsely punctured,
the segments strongly contracted at basej first segment entirely and
the base of the second, bright rufo-ferruginaus, the latter with a broad,
subapical, lemoo-yellow band narrowly margin before with black ; the
four following segments each with a narrower apical band of the same
color, slightly attenuated on the middle anteriorly ; the venter piceons-
black, ferruginous at base. Length 4 lines; expanse of wings 6j
lines.

Bab. — Rocky Mountains, Colorado Territory. (Ridings.) Coll. Ent.
Soo. Pbilad.

One % specimen ; $ nnknown. A handBome little species, with
the basal segment entirely red, as well as the base of the second seg-
ment.
8. Oeroerii Bloksi, n. ap.

Block ; sides of the face, cljpeus, mandlblea, Scape in trout, two spote on
collar, tegulte, spot OD each side of scutellum, line on poatectitellam, tibiiB and
tarsi, aod apical faacis on abdomen, much DOrrowed on the middle, jellow;
two baaal segments dull ferruginous; legs mostly fulvoua; winga fuscous.

/Vnio/e. — Black, closely and dteply punctured; sides of the face,
clypeuB, mandibles except tips, a minute dot behind the sunimit of the
eye, and the scape, yellow ; the face silvery in certain lights, especiully
the lateral lobes of the clypeus ; above the clypeus a pale ferruginous
dot; clypeus produced in the middle, convex above, concave beneath,
the apical margin subtruncute and narrowly margined with black ; fla-

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gellum of the anteDnse fulvoiu, dnsky above. Thorax : a tmosTerse
spot on each side of the collar, tegulee, a dot on each extreme side of
the Bcntellum, and a transTerse line on the poatacutellum, yellowiah ;
metathorax coarsely puDCtured, the triaogular basal space rugose, with
a deep channel down the middle. Wings pate fuscous, darker at tips,
with a slight TiolaceonB reflection ; ocrvares and stigma blackish.
Legs black at base, the femora fulvous, with more or less yellow at
tips ; tibite yellow, the posterior pair at tips, as well as the tarsi, liil-
voua. Abdomen with the segments strongly contracted at base, densely
and deeply punctured, the two basal segments dull ferruginous, with
an apical yellowish band, that on the second broad and much narrowed
oa the middle anteriorly ; the three following segments each with a
yellowish band similar to that on the second segment; venter brown-
ish, paler at base. Length 4 lines ; expanse of wings 7 lines.

i/at.— Georgia. (Blake.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

One 9 specimen ; % unknowu. This pretty little species was cap-
tured this summer, in Southwestern Georgia, by my friend Mr. Charles
A. Blake, after whom I have named it.

10. Oeroerii Cnitima, a. Bp.

Bliick ; face, aoape in front, two apotB on collar, teguUe, a Spot on each aide of
BCUtellum, poBtscutellum, tips of femora, and the tibim, and banda on abdo-
men, yellowish j wiags Bubbf aline.

Female. — Black, deeply and coarsely punctured, slightly pubescent ;
the face, mandibles except tips, a dot behind the summit of thu eyes,
and the scape in front obscure yellowish ; the face silvery io certiun
lights, especially the sides of the clypeus ; antenuee pale fulvous,
dusky above. Thorax : a spot on each side of the collar, tegulse, a
dot beneath the anterior wing, a spot oD each side of the scatellum,
and a line on the postaoutellum, yellowish; the enclosed basul space
of the metathorax transversely striated at tip. Wings subhyaline.
dusky at tip ; nervurea and stigma pale fuscous. Legs black ; tips of
the femora, and the tibiae, except tips of the posterior pair, yellowish.
Abdomen : first segment with a subinterrupted band at tip ; the four
following segments with a continuous, yellowish, apical band, narrowed
in the middle, and broadest on the seoond segment ; venter black,
shining, immaculate. Length 3j lines; expanse of wings 5} lines.

fluA.— Illinois. (Dr. Lewis.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

One 9 specimen; t unknown. Closely allied to C. Blakei nob.,
but has no ferruginous color whatever on the legs and abdomen, so
conspicuous Tn the latter species.

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11. Oeroeria flkTiKDiUlii, CreBBon,

CercerU ftavocostalia, CrCBBon, Prno. Ent. Boc, Phil, ir, p. Ifi3,

iTafi.— Cuba. Coll. Dr. John Gundlacb. Two {% 9) specimena.
hs this and the four folloiring species have already been described
on the pages of these " Proceediogs," I deem it useless to repeat them
here, and therefore merely give reference.

IS. Canwrli triaagnlata, Creagon.

Cereeris triangyitnta, CresBan. Proc. Ent. Boc. Phil, it, p. 1114.
Hab. — Cuba. Coll. Dr. Johu Gundlaeh. One % specimeo; J nn-
knowD.

IS. Ceioarii bilnnatft, Cresaoa.

CercerU bilunata, Creeeon, Proo. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 155.
Hab. — Cuba. Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad. Two t> specimens; y an-

14. Caroeru fsitlvft, CreBson.

Ctreeria /estiva, Cresson, Proc. Ent. 8oo. Pliil. it, p. 15fl.
Hub. — Cuba. Coll. Dr. John Gundlaeh. One t specimen; 9un-
kaown.

15. Ctrcerii Dabenlit, n. ep.

Ctrceria ziniata, Creaaon, Proe. Ent. Soc. Phil. It, p. 158.

Hab. — Cuba. Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad. One 9 , two % specimens.

As Mr. Smith had previously described a species from Cbioa under
the name of C zmialit, and to prevent confusion, I take this oppor-
tunity of changing the name of the Cuban species.

IS. Caroerii nl^Moaoi, Smith.

Cerceria nigreecena, Smith, Brit. Mua. Cat. Hym. It. p. 466, 9 ■
BIimIi; sides of face, clypeua, base of mandtbleB, dot behind the eyea, two
spots on collar, tcgulffi, poatecu tell urn, spot on each aide of metathorai, and
banda on abdomen, whiliahi winga Bubhyaline; the four anterior tibiie and
tarsi mostly pale jellowiah.

Female. — Deep black, not closely punctured, sparsely clothed with
pale pubescence ; sides of the face, clypeus, base of mandibles, a dot
behind the summit of the eyes, and sometimes a longitudinal line above
the elypeue, white or pale yellowish-white ; middle iobe of the clypeus
quadrate, elevated, convex above and concave beneath, the anterior
margin subtruncate or sli<;htly emarginated, and narrowly bordered
with black ; the lateral lobe» sometimes black, with a pale yellowish
spot on each ; aatennee black, the flagellum more or les^ fulvo-testa-
ceoua beneath, especially at base, and in one specimen the scape has a
white line in front. Thorax : a transverse spot on each side of the
collar, a spot on the t«gulce,a transverse line on the postscutellum, and
a rounded spot on each side of the metatborax, whitish or yellowisb-

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whit« ; tbe eocloeed basal space of the metalhorax covered with dcDse
longitudioal atrise, and a deeper one down the middle. Wings eub-
hjalioe, darker on the apical mai^ns and in the marginal cell ; ner-

Turea fusco-ferruginoua. Legs black ; extreme tips of the foar an-
terior femora, their tibiae Id front, and a line on the posterior tibite be-
neath, yellowish ; the unterior tarsi pale ferrnginouB, the posterior pair
dusky. Abdomen : the basal segment with a transverse yellowish-
white spot on each side at tip, the four following segments each with
an uninterrupted subapical fascia, narrowed in the middle aotcriorl; ;
beneath entirelj black. Length 5 — 5J lines; expaose of wings 8 — 8J

Vtirifty'i. — The antennae, collar and metathorax imniacuLite ; the
faaeias on the abdomen very narrow, and uninterrupted on the fifth
segment,

Ilrih. — Canada West (Saundera) ; Rocky Mountains, Colorado Ter-
ritory CRidings) ; " Nova Scotia" (Smith). Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Three ? specimens; I unknown.

17. Ctrcerii dentthrani, n. ep.

Black : sides of face, base of mandibles, two spots on collar, postscutellum,
tibite, and narrow faseifB on abdomen, yellow; elypeus with a large, acutely lu-
nate projection ; winga aubhyaline, dusky at tips.

Feviiile. — Deep black, strongly punctured, slightly pubescent; the
clypeus with a large acut«ly lunate projection, proceeding from its
base, and shaped like that of C. Iihuigulata described above ; sides of
the face, two dots on clypeal projection, confluent in one specimen and
wanting in another, and the base of the mandibles, yellow; antennse
black, the fiagellnm fulvo-testaceona beneath. Thorax: u transverse
spot or dot on each side of the collar, spot on tegulse, and the postscu-
tellum, yellow; mesothorax and scutellutn sparsely punctured; the
enclosed triangular space at the base of metathorax longitudinally stri-
ated. Wings suhhyuline, faintly violaceous, the apical margins and
marginal cell, pale fuliginous; nervures dull ferruginous, the stigma
paler. Legs : cosse, trochanters and temora except tips, black ; tips
of femora, the tibiie within, and the four anterior tarsi, fulvous; tibite
yellow exteriorly ; tips of the posterior tibite and their tarsi, dusky.
Abdomen with a narrow subapical fascia on each segment, except the
last, sli(;htly narrowed in the middle anteriorly, a little interrupted on
the first segment, and rather broadest on the second; beneath black,
immaculate. Length 4 i — -5 lines; expanse of wings 7 — 8 lines.

Hub. — New York (Angus) ; Illinois (Dr. Lewis). Coll. Ent. Soc.
Philad.

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Three J speoimena; % unkaown. Closely reseiobles thepreoediog
species id orDauientation ; but readily distinguished by Che veiy promi-
nent, bideutate projection of the clypeus. This species may possibly
prove to be the 2 of 0. thtterta Say.

18. OsrMTii deiarta, Ba;.

Cerceria deserta, Saf, Long's Second Expedition, ii, p. 3J3,^.
Black, finely puneturedi face, aoape in front, two apola on collar, teguliB,
puBtscuCellum, most of legs, and aarrov bands on abdomen, jelloiri wings
fuBco-hy aline.

Male. — Black, rather finely and sparsely punctured, especially the
abdomen, thinly pubescent ; the face entirely, mandibles except tips,
and the scape in front, bright yellow; antennae dusky above, black at
base, the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorai: the meaothorax and
seutellum sparsely punctured ; a spot on each side of the collar, some-
times much reduced, spot on tegulse, and a transverse line on the post-
scutellum, yellow; the basal enclosed space of the metathorax chan-
nelled down the middle, with a few oblique strice on each side. Wings
lusco-hyaline, slightly violaceous, darker at tips ; nervures pale ferru-
ginous. Legs yellow ; the four anterior femora behind, apical half of
the posterior pair, as well as the tips of their tibise, black, their tarsi
dusky. Abdomen rather feebly and sparsely punctured, the segments
convex, and rather strongly contracted at base; the basal segment
generally, but not always, with a yellow spot or dot on each side; the
five following segments each with a narrow, continuous, subapicaJ, yel-
low fascia, more or less narrowed in the middle and rather the broadest
on the anterior segments ; beneath, the second to fifth segments have
generally a yellow transverse spot or dot on each side. Length 4]
lines; expanse of wings 8 lines.

Hab. — Massachusetts (Ridings) ; Pennsylvania (Cresson) ; Dela-
ware (Dr. Wilson); Illinois (Dr. Lewis). Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Eight % specimens; 9 unknown.

19. C«reerii imitator, a. gp.

This species differs from C. de*erta principally in the pnnctation
being much closer, deeper and coarser ; the size is smaller, the en-
closed basal space of the metathorax is longitudinally striated, the pos-
terior femora and tibim have always a larger proportion of the black
color, and the basal segment of the abdomen, and the venter, are im-
maculate. Length 4 lines; expanse of wings 7 lines.

fibi.— Illinois (Dr. Lewis). Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Eight % specimens; J unknown. This is, no doubt, the var. j9 of
Say's deserta, and is at once distiugQished from that species by the
coarse sculpture.

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so. OeroerU compart n- 'P-

Black ; face, acapfl in front, interrupted line on colUr, another on Bcat«llum,
most of legs, and aarroir bands □□ abdomen, yelloir ; vrioga aubhyaline.

Male. — Black, deeply and closely punctured ; the face entirely, the
uandibles more or Icsa and the scape id front, yellow; rest of antennm
black above, fnlvous beneath. Thorax ; a lice on the collar, inter-

rnpted la the middle, Bometimes widely, a apot on the tegulffi,a slightly
interrupted line ou the bcuI«11udi, and uometimea a lon>;itudinal line ,
OQ each side of the metathorax, pale yellowieh, the basal enclosed space
of the latter channelled down the middle with a few deep punctures
on each side. Wings subyhaline, the apical margin and niurginal cell
pale fuscous ; nervures pale ferruginous. Legs black ; the cos», tro-
chanters, tips uf the four anterior femora, their tibit« and tarui. basal
two-thirds of the poal«rior tibite and the base of tbeir tarsi, yellow.
Abdomen convex, strongly punctured ; each segment, except the last,
with a very narrow, continuous, subapical, yellow fascia, scarcely
broader on the sides ; vent«r black, shining, immEiculate. Length Hi
— ij lines ; expanse of wings 6 — 8 lines.

ZTdi.— Illinois. (Dr. Lewis.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Pbilad,
Three % specimens; 9 nnknown. Resembles the preceding species,
but is more compact, with the posterior femora entirely black, and the
basal segment of the abdomen with a narrow continuous fascia similar
to those on the following eegments.
21. Ceroerli folvipos, n. ep.

Black; spots on face, two on collar, tegulte, line on postBcutellum, two opots
on metathorax, and banda on abdomen, jell owish- whiter legs fulvous, ivingg
aubhyaline.

/tniufe.— Black, somewhat shining, thinly clothed with a pale pu-
bescence; head closely punctured; a subtriangular mark on each side
of the face, a small spot on the clypeus, emarginate before, mandibles
except tips, and a spot behind the eyeg near the summit, obMiure whit-
ish; antennse black, the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax more
sparsely punctured, elongate and somewhat confluent on the mesotho-
rax, very sparse ou the scutellum; spot ou each side of the collar,
tegulfe,, postscutellum, and an ovate spot on each side of the metathorax.
yellowish -white ; the enclosed hasal space of the latter finely and
somewhat obliquely striated. "Wings subbyaline, slightly tinged with
yellowish, faintly iridescent, apes fuscous; uervurea pale ferruginous.
Legs fulvous ; the coxae and anterior femora behind, blackish ; the
tibife tinged with yellow exteriorly. Abdomen rather sparsely punc-
tured; first segment with a yellowish -white spot on each side, and u
continuous, apical band of the same color on the four following se<jmentH,

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more or less narrowed in the middle ; beneath, the second to fifth Beg-
mente with a lateral yellowish-white spot, the second aegmeat stained
with ferruginous in one specimen. Length 4 — H lines ; expanse of
wings 6i — -TJ lines.

Sab.—Deh. (Dr. Wilson) ; III. (Dr. Lewis). Coll. Ent. Soe. Philad.

Two 5 specimens; 5 unknown. A very pretty and distinct speciee,
closely allied to C. mi/rescens in general ornamentation, hut is distin-
guished at once from that species by the fulvoua legs.

S3. CsroBiia eompaota, d. sp.

Robust, btB^:!! ; fuce, mandibles, scfipa in front, tva spots on collar, two on
scatellum, tegulas, postseuteltum, tibi ? and bands on second and followiog
segments of abdomen, broadest on the second, yellow; femora fulvous; wings
SUbhyalioei faiie silTery in 9.

Fe.male. — Robust, black, clcsely and strongly punctured, thinly
clothed with a pale pubescence ; face silvery, e^pec Ily h side

of the clypeus ; face, a line beneath antennae, clyp u ma d bl x-
cept tips, a spot behind the summit of eyes, and scap f t y 11 w;

middle of clypeus prominent, convex above, flatte d d dusLy be-
neath, which baa an ovate, oblique space on each sid nt nfe bt k-
ish, the flagellum fulvous beneath. Thorax : a n rs pot on
each side of the collar, tegnlse, a spot on each side f th t 11 m,

the postscuteljum, and in one specimen an obscure p t n h de '
of the metathorax, yellowish, the enetosed basal sp f th 1 tter

coarsely and obliquely striated. Wings subhyaline, with a brassy sub-
iridesi^ent reflection, the coHto-apical and apical margins fuscons, ner-
vures dull ferrnginoua. Legs black at base, the femora fulvous, their
tips more or less, the tibiie and bitse of the tarsi yellow, tips of posterior
tibiee within dusky as well as most of the posterior tarsi. Abdomen
robust, the bnsal segment unusually small, ai:d immaculate; second
segment with a broad, continuous, apical, yellow band ; the three fol-
lowing segments each with a narrow apical yellow fascia, much dilated
on the sides; beneath black, immaculate. Length 4J — 5 lines; ex-
pana« of wings 7 — 8i lines.

Male. — Resembles the female, with the face flat, of a brighter yel-
low, the spot behind the eyes wanting, the lateral spots of the scutel-
lum subobsolete, the faseiie on the third asd three following segments
less dilated on the sides, and the venter is narrowly banded with tes-
taceous. Length 4 — 4J lines.

fliifc.— Pennsylvania (Cresaon); Delaware (Dr. Wilson); Illinois
(Dr. Lewis and Mr. Kenoicott), Coll. Ent. 800. Philad ,and Chicago
Academy of Sciences.

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Foot 9 ; two £ speoimena. This is muoli more robnat id propor-
tion to the sise, than any of tho other species, and the abdomen is more
contracted at baee.
SS. Oeresrii oalifomloa. □. sp.

Black ; face, two spots on collar, spot on tegain, tibin and baoda on abdn-
men much uttenuated in the middle, yellow; winga subhjaline, the costa fus-
coua; face silvery.

Mali'. — Robust, black, deeply and rather closely punctured, subaeri-
ceous, thinly clothed with a pale yellowish pubescence; the face en-
tirely pale yellow, clothed with a short silvery pubescence ; mandibles
black ; antcnnffi black above, fulvous beneath, the apical joint aubconi-
cal, a little curved and tipped with folvous. Thorax sparsely punc-
tured above, immaculate, except an ov-itc dull yellowish spot ou each
sid^ of the collar, and two very obscure ones of the same color on post-
acutellum; enclosed basal space of the metathorux smooth and polished;
tegnlse fulvous with a yellow spot. Wings hyaline, with a brilliant
violaceous reflection especiaUy at tips; the costa, beyond the stigma,
broadly fuscous, as well as the apical margins faintly; nervures ferru-
ginous. Legs brownish at base, the four anterior femora ferruginous,
the posterior pair rufo-picoous ; tibi% and base of tarsi yellow ; tips of
posterior tibise and most of the tarsi fuscous. Abdomen robust, sub-
sericeous, the first segment unusually small, globose and tinged with
dull ferruginous at tip ; the second and three following segments each
with a narrow, apical, yellow fascia, much dilated on each side, the
sixth segment with a broad yellow band, the anterior middle slightly
emarginated; beneath black, immaculate. Length 5} lines; expanse
of wings 9 lines.

£fo6.— California. (Mr. Henry Ulke.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.
One % specimen ; 9 unknown.
34. Cereerii Kennieottti, n. sp.

Black; aides of face, cljpeu^ scape in front, interrupted line on collar,
tegulEC, a broad line on acutellum, tibiw, broad band on second abdomiaal seg-
ment, tranaverae spot on each side of third, and narrow bands on three follow-
ing aegmenta, yellow; wings subhyaline, the costa fuacous-

J^ale. — Black, coarsely punctured, finely pubescent, silvery on the
olypeus; sides of the face, middle lobe of the clypeus, and the scape
in front, yellow ; antennce black, the fiagellum fulvous beneath. Tho-
rax : ft line on the collar, interrupted in the middle, tegulse, and a
broad transverse line on the scutellum, yellow; the enclosed basal
space of the metathoraz shining, with a deep channel down the mid-
dle. Wings dusky, with a violaceous reflection, the costa fuliginous;
nervures fuscous. Legs black ; tips of the femora, the tibise and tarsi.

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yellow ; tipa of the posterior tibiee aod their tarsi, fuaoona. Abdomen
much contracted at base, the first segment small and globose, immBon-
late, except a fulvous dot on the apical middle ; second segment with a
broad, continuous, yellow band ; third segment with a Bhort transverse
yellow line on each extreme side ; the three following segments with a
narrow subapioal yellow band; venter black, obaoletely banded with
obscure testaceou*!. Length 3i lines; expanse of wings 6 lines.

Bub. — Louisiana. (Mr. Robert Kennicott.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

One £ speciuiea ; 9 unknown.

25. Ceioerii iuaoltta, o. sp.

Black ; fane, acape in front, two spots on collar, band on scutellum, teguln,
most of legs, and baode on nbdomiaal segments except the seoond and last,
yellow; winga hjaline, eoata fuliginous.

Miilf.. — lilack, closely and deeply punctured, thinly clothed with an
erect, palish pubescence; the face entirely, middle of mandibles, and
the acape in front, yellow ; iintennae blackish, fulvous at base and be-
neath. Thorax : a transverse spot on each side of the collar, tegulsB,
broad trunsverse line on the scutellum, and a subobsolete dot on each
side of the metuthorax, yellow; the postscuteilum and basal space of
the metathorax, almost impunctate, shining. Wings hyaline, iridescent,
with the apical half of the eoata fuliginous ; nervures fusco-ferruginoua.
Legs yellow ; the four anterior femora behind, except tips, blackish, pos-
terior pair ferruginoua, tips of their tibife and tarsi fuscous. Abdomen
with a broad, continuous, yellow band on each of the first and second
segments; the fourth and two following segments have each a very
narrow, subapical, yellow fascia; beneath, the third segment has a
narrow yellow band, and the two following segments a lateral spot.
Length 4 lines; expanse of wings 6i lines.

//i.i.— Illinois, (Dr. Samuel Lewis.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

One t specimen; 9 unknown. Resembles the preceding but distinct
by the yellow face, the color of the le^, and the immaculate aecond
abdominal segment.

The following species are unknown to me : —

26. CsrosTis frontata, Say.

Cereeris/Tontata, Say, West. Qusr. Hep. ii, p. 80, J.
'- NaauB elevated ; body pale rufous ; tergum yellow with rafooa iu-

" Inhabits Arkansa.

" Body pale rufous ; antennse and mandibles black at tip ; front pale
yellow; nasus elevated at tip from the clypeus, widely emarginated

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and deoBoly oili&ted on the anterior edge, lobea aonte; cljrpsuB four-
toothed at tip ; wings dusky blackish oa the posterior margin ; wing-
scale and double line on the aotttel yellow; tergum yellow; ineisurea
reddisb-brown.

" Length of the body aine-tenths of ao inch.

" The specimen is a female, remarkable by the jjromineace of the
nasal portion of the face, a character which was also pointed out by
Latreille, in a species which be called Ctrceri* aurita, which insect he
observed to nourish its youag, with insects of the Linnean genus
Curculio."

37. Csreeria bidentata, Saj.

C^rceria btdentala, S&j, West. Quar. Rep. ii, p. 80, 9 .

" Lateral lobes of the clypeus each elevated into a prominent spine:
anterior margin of the superior wings dusky.

" Inhabits Arkansa.

" Body pale yellowish; bead behind the eyes and above, and base of
tbe antennse, rufous; antennie black at tip; front concave, lateral
lobes of the clypeus each with a conic prominence perpendicular to tbe
surface; mandibles black at tip; thorax rufous on tbe principal seg-
ment; superior «ings blackish on the anterior margin, the costal ner-
vure tinged with yellowish in the middle: tergum incisures reddish-
brown ; segments each with a transverse groove on tbe middle.

" Length less than tbree-fiftbs of an inch.

" In general color, very much resembles tbe preceding species, from
which it may be distinguished by its much smaller size, and by the
two remarkable spines or tubercles situated on the lateral lobes of the
clypeus. The specimen is also a female."

28, Cereeiii vertieali*. Smith.

Cerceris oertiealia. Smith, Brit. Mub. Cat. Hym. iv, p. 468.

" Female. Length 6 lines. — Black, thickly punctured ; tbe head
ferruginous behind the eyes ; the scape and second joint of the flagel-
lum ferruginous ; the face below the antennse yellow ; tbe margins of
tbe clypeus black ; the mandibles ferruginous, their extreme base yel-
low. Thorax : the colhir yellow, interrupted in the middle bya ferru-
ginous spot, tbe post-scutellum and a spot on tbe tegulte yellow ; a
large ferruginous blotch on each side of the metathorax ; the wings
smoky-hyaline ; tbe legs ferruginous. Abdomen : the basal segment
ferruginous, with a minute yellow spot on each side; tbe second seg-
ment yellow, with tbe basal margin and a produced quadrate spot in
the middle ferri^inous; the margins of the following segments with

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a narrow band which is widened at the sides ; beneath, rafo-piceons,

brightest at the base.
" Hab. — Georgia."
SB. CeroBiia elegani, Smith.

Cerctria tlegani, Smith, Brit MuB. Cat. Bjui. iv, p. 4flT.

" Male. Length 3 lines. — Black, coarsely punctared; the face be-
low the aatennie, the scape in front, and the mandibles, yellow, the
tips of the mandibles ferruginous ; the anterior margin of the clypeus
rounded; the anterior angles of the face produced into small quadrate
lobes; the flagellum and scape behind fermginoua. Thorax: a spot
on each side of the collar and the tegulae in front yellow ; wings smoky-
hyaline and beautifully iridescent; the legs yellow, with the coxse and
the femora at their base more or less rufo-piceous ; the melathorax
very coarsely rugose. Abdomen : the two basal segments fermginoua,
the apical margin of the second segment yellow ; an elongate yellow
spot on each side of the following segments on their apical margins,
the spofe widest at the margins of the segments and pointed within,

u^at._East Florida."

30. dBTMrii rafa-piota. Smith. •

Cerceru Tvjo-picta, Smith, Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. iy, p. 467,
" Male. Length -I lines. — Black, coarsely punctured; the face yellow
below the antenna ; the anterior margin of the clypeus black, crenu-
lated, and angular ; the anterior margin of the face has on each side
an angular filament close to the eye; the mandibles yellow, their tips
ferruginous; the antenna) ferruginous; the flagellum fuscous above to-
wards the apes, the apes pale. The prothorax, tegulse, scutellum,
postscutellum, with sometimes a spot on each side, and the legs, ferru-
ginous ; the wings fuaco-hyaline, the apical margins of the anterior
wings darkest. Abdomen : the two basal segments ferruginous ; the
apical margin of the third with a narrow ferruginous band ; the fourth
anil iollowing segments more or less banded at the sides with ferrugi-
nous or sometimes with reddish -yellow.
" Ilab. — East Florida."

31. Cereerii Dnfonrii, Gu^r.

CerctrU Du/ourii, Guir. Icon. R£g. Anim. jii, p. 444.

" Black ; front of the head, base of the mandibles, and the first
joint of the antennce in front, yellow. Antennae black, with the first
half fulvous. Two small fulvous spots on the posterior margin of the
prothorax ; tegulie and margin of the scutellum, yellow. First segment
of the abdomen fulvous ; the second fulvous, with a large yellow mar-
^n, hollowed out in the middle, and separated from the preceding by

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black ; the others black, Darrottl; mar^Ded with yellow, and the last

segment fulvous, with a black spot on the middle, and ciliated on each
side with long golden haira. Wings slightly tinged with yellowish-
brown, with the extremity margined with deeper brown. Legs fulvous,
with the external margin of the tihiee and the tarsi, yellow. Length

le mill.

" Hah. — New Orleans."

This seems closely allied to 0. venalor nob., and may be identical
with it. The legs are, however, somewhat differently colored.

32. Ceicerit Inrlgata. Smith.

OtrcerU Iccvigata, 9mith, BriL Mufl. Cat. Hjm. iv, p. 465.

" Fi-Tiude. Length 4 lioea. — Black and very delicately punctured ;
the face, base of the mandibles, and a line behind the eyes, yellow ;
the flagellum fuhoua beneath. Thorax : the collar, tubercles, a spot
beneath the wings, the scutellum, and an oblong macula on each side
of the postficuCellum, yellow; the anterior and intermediate tibiae, and
the posterior pair at their base, yellow ; the anterior tarsi yellow, with
the apical joints slightly ferruginous, the intermediate and posterior
pair fusco-ferruginoua ; winga slightly colored, with a fuscous cloud
on the anterior margin of the superior pair. Abdomen very delicately
and sparingly punctured and shining; the first segment with its apical
margin yellow, a slight notch in the middle of the band; the second,
third and fourlh segmeuts with a yellow fascia on their apical margins,
very much attenuated in the middle and widened at the sides.

'' The male has a yellow band on the first and four following seg-

" /y<i6.— St. Domingo,"

33. Cerosrii Perboioti, Gu^r.

Cerceria Ferboacii, Ga^r. Icon. H^g.Anim. lii, p. 444.

" Black ; front of the head yellow, with two black circles, one above
the other, forming a figures. Antenoffi black, with the base brown.
Two small yellow lines on the posterior margin of the prothoras ; teg-
ulsc black, the anterior margin yellow ; a small yellow oblique spot iin
each side of the mesothorax ; scutellum yellow, metathoras broadly
margined on each side with yellow, and with two oblong spots of the
same color on the middle. First and third segmente of the abdomen
broadly margined behind with yellow. Wings transparent; the ante-
rior half of superior pair, as well as base and tip, obscure brown. Legs
black, with the front of the four anterior tibiai yellow. Length 8 mill.

" Bab. — Bay of Canipeche,"

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HOBTH AXEBIOAH KIOKO-LEFIDOFTBBA.
By BRACKE\KIDaE CLEMENS, M. D.

(CommunicaUd Aug. 14, 1865.)

TOKTIllUID^.
STiaHOVOTA., Guen4e.
Ftoc. Acad. Nal. 8ci., Aug. 1860, p. 351.
Fore-wingB with & curved blotch or lunule on the dorsal margin.

The blotch beuriag three lines or streaks Uiitrlguuu

The blotch bearing oae streak intentiiiotsnft.

BdgmanBte triitrl^nft, n.B.— Fore-winga blochiab-brawa.cosUpale-feltov
from near the base of the wiog to the tip, with eight blockish.. oblique streaks
and four bluish meUllic spots adjoining the yellowish costal stripe. On the mid-
dle of the dorsal margin ia a Urge pale-yellow blotch containing three blackish
lines, with a bluish metallic spot above it in the middle of the wing, and a semi-
band between it and tbe hinder margin. Hind wiuga d irk brown.
Coll. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia.— Virginia.

BEBICOBIB, Treit.
Exartema, Proo. Acad. Nat. Sci., Aug. 1860, p. 358.

The Wiint of .1 good ajatematic work and Europeaa generic types
renders clasaification id this'family a work of much labor. I was not,
however, convinced when I described the group Exartema, that it
would be tenable as a new one ; fur it was the peculiar outline of the
inner margin of the hinder wiuga, and the appendage attached to them,
that chiefly induced mo to describe the imi^lnes included under this
name as forming a new genus. .

Upon a review of the subject. I think there is do doubt of the cor-
rectnesH of the present location of the insects included in this group.
I have not enough specimens to determine whether tbe appendage
referred to, is common to all the specimens described, or whether it is
sexual or accidental.

It' is difficult to tabulate the described species. Individuals not
only vary considerably in hue, but species apparently distinct approach
each other closely in general color.
Fore wings with a small white spot in the central fascia on the

end of the disk mntabiUna.

Fore wings yellowish, or ferruginous with black dashes and
brown markings.
Fore wings without a small white spot in the central fascia.

Fore wings red dish -brown ; markings pure brown ...nltidailk.

Fore wings ochreous- brown or dark-brown ; central fascia
distinct.

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184 [September

With lustrous metallic dots along the markings MruiHUUL

With whitish spaces succeeding the basal patch and cen-
tral fascia. fMoIatamu

With ochreous spaces succeeding the patch and fascia.

Patch and fascia entire, spaces ochreous white lutmtwuu

Patch and fascia tri parted, spaces luteous totdftnm.

With costs at base oohreous-white, without distinct pale

Bpacea succeeding faacsl patch atid central fascia permnndAiu.

Fore wings russe t. brown ; central fuscia not distinct.

Varied with dull leaden stripes towards apei oonilliULUia.

Fore wings testaceous or brownisQ testaceous.
Costa white at base and along hinder border, or nearl)" uni-
form testaceous with dull leaden hue TersiooloruLs

Wings nearly concolorous; thorax, costa and spot at basal

angle ferruginaQs toonuUna.

Concolorous ; thorax, cosCa, spot at basal angle, ferruginous. ...inonutanft.
With large basal patch and square patch near the tip, ferru-
ginous gratioMJia.

fteTiearii aerasoaua, Clem.

Aniilheavi J eOTUteana, Froc. Acad. NaL 3ci., Aug. 1860, p. 346.
Berloori» ^atlosana, n. s. — Fore wings testaceous- white, with a ferruginous
basal paieh, having a nearly straight margin, and a large aquare patch of the
same hue, reaching from the middle of the costa nearly to the tip of the wing
and extended into the middle of the wing, with the outer edge extended as a
atripo to the middle of the hinder margin. The basal patch is slightly dusted
with blackish and the square patch is blajjkish on its inner edge. At the tip
of the wing is a ferruginous dot and between it and the aquare patch a few

The teataceouB portion of the wing is slightly striated. Tbor«i and head
ferruginous. Hind winga fuscous.

Coll. Ent. Soc. Phiiadelphia.— Virginia.

BerioDrii oanDlnnana, n. s.—Fore winga rusaet or ocbreous -brown, much va-
ried with brown dots and markings. The basal patch ia dark brown and is
well indicated only beneath the middle of the wing and a small apot on the
base of the costa, the middle being of the general hue sprinliled with dark
brown. The central fascia is indicated on the mi'ddle of the costa by a dark
testaceous-brown patch and by another of the same hue on the inner margin
and is interrupted in the middle of the wing by the general hue. In the apical
portion of the wing is an oblique ochreous-brown stripe, extended from the
dark patch on the costa to the middle of the inner margin and bordered on
each aide by a non-Iustroua leaden stripe. The space between this oblique
stripe and the central fascia is sprinkled with brown and somewhat varied dull
leaden streaks. At the tip of the wing is a dark brown spot and the costa is
geminated with pale ochreous and dotted with dark brown. Cilia rusaet, dark
brown at tip with three brownish spots in the cilia beneath the tip. Hind
winga dark fuscous; cilia pale ochreous.

Coll. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia. — Virginia.

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B«riaorli mnUbllMiai n. a. — Pore vinga reddish -brown, jellowish or pale-
oohreoua, with roddiah-brown or teataoeoua -brown markings. The basal patch
is angulated and at the base of the wing, abowa the general hue. The central
fascia is welt marked and on its outer adg» in the middle of the wing is a
whitish discat dot There is a eubterminal fascia ezteudiog from the casta
near the tip to the hinder margin above the anal angle. On the basal patch
and central fascia are short black strife. On each side of the central fascia are
spacea, or bands of the ^oeral hue, each having a dark brownish line running
its middle. The casta is spotted with blackish and geminated with yellowish
or pale ochreoua.

In the reddiah-brown speciraeo or variety, the pale interspaces are
ochreoua on the coste and bencuth it, are discolored vith reddiah.

It is acarcely possible, with the apecimens before me to diatinguiah
the species from the variety, and I therefore forbear to make a conjec-
ture. The description has been nritten so as to include all the varia-

Coll. Ent. Soe. Philadelphia.— Vii^inia.

Berloarii initrntaak, n. a.

This specimen may be a mere variation of fasciatana. The orua-
mentatioQ of the wings is very similar, as well as the color, but the size
of the specimen is much less.

The whitiah spacea on each aide of the central fascia is more tinted
with ochreous than in faidatana. The outer margin of the basal patch
shows two indentations and a central tooth or projection, while in fa»-
fiataiui the outer margin is nearly straight or slightly curved. The
central fascia is very narrow on the costa, dilating in the middle of the
wing, its exterior margin bulging outwards and ia somewhat interrupted
near the inner margin of the wing; in fasciatana it is broad and dif-
fuse on the casta. In imtrutana the markings of the wings are pure
dark brown, \n fasciatana they are testaceous brown.

Coll. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia. — Virginia.

Seriooiia foadana, n. s.

This specimen, although of much amaller size, recalls ^erntunr/ana;
but the pale spaces on each side of the central fascia are much broader
lafadana than in permundana.

Fore wings luteous with brown markings. The basal patch is deeply
divided and forms three patches, the smallest of which is near the eosta
and is separated from the other parts. The central fascia is brown and
is likewise divided into three parts, each of which is narrowly mar-
gined with dull bluish edging. The oblique streak from the hioder
margin is brown and edged on both sides with dull-bluiah.

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It may be that feetlasia, eonclnnana nod permunifana really consti-
tat« but one species. This must be deterniiDed in tbe future.

Coll. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia.— Virginia.
Serloorii vsnicolDmia, Cleia. Froc. Aciul. NaL Bci., Aug. IRBO. p. 3i7.

Thia apecies which is ordioarily diatinguiahed by the white or yel-
lowish-white costa at the base of the winjr and the white space towards
the hinder margin of the win^, is represented by a specimen in the
Society's Ojlleetion in which all the wliil* is replaced by pale testace-
ous having m certain li^bta a. dull bluish lastre. I thJat it is not
necessary to describe it as a distinct species, aa to my mind it ia evi-
dently a variation.

Doubtless too many species have been created out of the material
that has been before me, but I have been f^verned entirely by a wish
to notice clearly all the differences in individuals belonging tr this
group, and not by a desire to multiply descriptions

LOZOTJEHIA, Bt^pheua.
Proc. Aoad. Nat. Sci., Aug. ISftO, p. 346.

The species described heretofore and in the present paper, may be
tabulated as followa :
Fore winga purpliah-browD.

Hind wings palc-brownisli pnrpnranB.

Fore wings cinnamon or reddish -brown.

Hind wing3 oehreouB Dear tba apes Boaaeeana.

Hind winga fuacoua tsrridana.

Fore wings oohreous.

Hind winga dark-fusoous fraotiTittanft.

Hind wings pale -oohreouB vasperana.

Fore wings gray fnaooUasuia.

LoiotBBnia vssperanft, n. s. — Fore wings ocbraons, with three ochreoua brown
spots, two along the eoeta near the middle and one on the inner margin of the
wing beneath the costal spots. Th"; wings are striated with numerous, abort
oohreous -brown lines. Hind wings pale-oehreous.
Thorax, bead and labial palpi ochreous-brown.
Col. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia.— Virginia.

Loiotania pnrpttrtuiB, n. s. — Fore wings dull purplish-brown, with the costa
at the eicised portion hehiod the tip, touched narrowly with pure bright
brown. The hinder portion of the wing ochreous-brown, containing two slen-
der dark brown lines whinh are parallel to the hinder margin. The basal patch
ia not distinct. The central fascia, oblique and dark purplish -brown. Hind
wings pale-brownish, touched externallj with fuscous.
Author's Collection.

Loiotasnia traotivittana, n. s.— Fore wings ochreous, discolored towards the
base, with brownish. On the costa are two dark brown spots, one about the
middle of the costa, obliquely opposite to which on the inner margin near the

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anal angle it a luge spot of the same hue. The other coetat spot ii elongated
and placed an the oosta near tha tip of the wing. Hind wingi dark fuscoDB.
Col. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia. — Virfjinia.

Loiotania fiLBMlin«Mia, n. a.— Fore wlags gra^, Blightl; clouded with dark
fiisoouB towards the Up and at the base, and marbled with blackish brown lines
especially towards the tip. The basal patch is well marked by two parallel,
blackieh- brown, angulated lines. The central rascia, which is nearly trans-
Terse is dark-brown, and margined on each side bj a blackish-brown line.
The graj space on the basal side of the central fascia, has a slender, central
blackish -brown line. The space exterior to the central fascia is clouded with
fascouB, except a gra; space above the anal angle and varied with delicate
blaokiah-brown lines. Hind wings grayish-foscous.

I think this imago can scarcely belong to tnis genus, but there ia no
other known to me in which it can be placed with more propriety.
The cost* IB regularly arched from the base to the tip of the wing,
with the costal fold not appressed. The apes of the wiog is not pro-
duced upwards and the hinder murgin is obliquely rounded. Inde-
pendent of other cod si deration a, the OOStal fold 13 not broad enough, to
aoggest the probability of its belonging to Fl^choloma, and this and
the present one are the only genera amonget the Plwatse, known to
me, in which it can be placed.

Coll. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia.— Virginia.

XABTHOBETU, Bteph.

ZaathBietla albloomana, n. s. — Fore wings bright lemon-yellow, tinted espe-
cially towards the tip of the wing with reddish. From the base of the wing a
reddish band set with lustrous scales, curves along the costa to the middle of
the wing, leaving a lenton-yellow space at the base beneath the casta. Beyonii
the middle of the casta is an oblique band of the same hue likewise sprinkled
with lustrous scales, and along the margin of the wing is a deep reddish stripe
bearing lustrous points. Cilia lemon -yellow. Hind wings whitish. Head,
thorax and labial palpi white.

Coll. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia. — Virginia.

STEOAHOPTTCHA, Staph.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad., Dec. IS6i, p. 519.

Fore wings pale -yellowish Oohraana.

Fore wings white, varied with blackish -brawn raria&a.

Fare wings dark-brown or copperish- brown.

Ocelloid spot silvery, with three black dashes niispana.

Ocelloid spot ochreous, with one black dash ftaroeellana.

Steganoptycha orllpana, n. s.^Fore wings dark-brown, varied with blsckish-
brown striations. The eosta from the base of the wing to the tip, is striated
with blackish-brown and beyond the middle is geminated with pale oohreouB,
the last gemination at tbe tip being large, white and with a. silvery streak,
edged on each side with brassy line« beneath it. Ocelloid spot silvery with a
pale ochreous center, bearing three block dashes. Hind wings dark, fuscous-
Author's Collection.

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Stogftnoptjehft flftTWwUaiW, a. a.— Fore viugi copperish .brown. The aoate. is
striated from the middle to the tip with dark brown, the geminations faint and
dull ochreouB, those near the tip forming a dull ocbreoue spot. One of the cos-
tal atriss, which is dark-brown or luteoua-brown, ia eitanded very obliquely
from the apical third of the wing to the hinder margin and curvea behind tba
ooelloid apot The ooelloid spot is pale ochreoua, with a dull silvery spot along
He inaer margin and a email one on its upper, outer margin, with a black, cen-
tral daah, and one on its costal edge. Hind winga dark fuaooua.

Author's Collection,

Other speciiuens from Virgioia, in Col. Ent. Soo. Pbilad., and one
in my owd, are not more than half the size of the imago described.
Their general hue is paler than the specimen I have choaen for the
typical one.

TOKTBIX, Treit.

Tortrii IntOlona, n. s. — Fore wings ochreoua, or pale-ochreous. The basal
patch i» scarcely indicated, but the wing at the baae ia more or leaa speckled
with dark brownish. The central fascia is well indicated and ia dark-brown
from the costa to the middle of the wing, and thence to the doraal margin red-
diah-browQ. Between the central fascia and the tip of the wing, is a dark
brown costaJ apoL Ttie terminal portion of the wing ia of the general hue.
Hind wings pale-faaeous.

In the dark apecimens the general color of the w

towards the terminal margin and the basal patoh ie
defined by dark brownish lines.

Col. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia. — Vii^nia, and Author's Collection.

Toitrix lOMrtMia, n. a.— Fore winga cinnamon -brown ; along the hinder mar-
gin pale ochreous. The basal patch is not indicated. The central faacia is
broad, red di ah -brown and on the doraal margin interior to the central fascia,
ia a small, semi-oval dark ochreous spot, and the doraal margin thence to the
baae is discolored with dark-brown i»h. The aubapical patch on the coata ia
dark brown and beneath it. tn the ochreous portion of the wing is a testaceous-
brown spoC Hind wings dark fuscoua.

Author's Collection.

These species are of small size, and were it not for the fact that the
costal fold is absent, they might with propriety be included in Loto-

The following species, I acknowledge frankly, I am unable to locate.
It belongs to the family or group, Tortric.iilm, but I cannot satisfy my-
self that it is a member of any genua in this group. The only work I
have that treats of the Turtrlcina, is Mr. Wilkinson's British Tortrices,
and his generic diagnoses are so pccuti^ly written, his tables of genera
founded upon a fanciful comparison of the length of the middle joint
of the labial palpi with the apical joint, that the location of a specimen
is very troublesome and difficult. At some subsequent day, I will review
what I have done in this group, as soon as I can obtain types of European

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genera and thng correct the naiuerons errors I have doubtlesa commit-
ted, by deacribing new generic groups, when genera have already been
created into which they could have been received and of which I have
no knowledge.

Therefore, rather than describe the following insect nnder a new
generic name, I prefer to place it here provisiooliHy.

Tortrixl fnniibrana. — Fore wings brown, varied with dark brown, abort
Btrtn. Tlie basal patch is indicated by darli brown strife, but the central fascia
is nnt indicated. Following the baaal patch ia a grayish -brown gpace having
a Bhiuing lustre; its exterior edge is irregular and it widens towards the dorsal
margin, where it beara abort, dark-brown striee. About the middle of the costa
is a round spot of the same hue and lustre, and along the terminal margin ib a
stripe with irregular margins, of the same hue and lustre bordered on each aide
with dark brown.

Sometimes the grayish -lustre is atisent on the markings, which are then
Bimply of a paler brown than the general hue. Hind winga dark fuscous.

Col. Ent, Soc. Philadelphia.— Virginia.

HAIXJKOTA, Steph.
Proc. Aoad. Nat. Soi., Aug. 1860, p. 357.
Halonota taatana, n. a.— Fore wings dark brown, having a coppery hue. The
basal pat«b ie large and well defined, and of the general hue. It is limited
exteriorly by the dorsal blotch which is grayish with a violet hue, and is con-
nected with the first -garni Dated costal streak, containing a short, brownish
line. Thence to the apex, the coata is atraaked alternately with brownish and
geminated with lustrous gray. Exterior to the dorsal blotch are two lustrons
gray, tranaverse Htreaka. The hinder margin ia spatted with black. Hind
winga fuscous, with a coppery hue-

Coll. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia.— Virginia.

LEPT0BI8,* n. gen.
Hind winga rather broader tlian fore wings, COSta slightly arched in
the middle, apex somewhat acute, apical margin slightly concave.

The costal and subcostal veins have a common base.
The branches of the subcostal are divergent from the
origin of the discal, which is regularly curved. Me-
dian vein 4-branched, three of which are rather ag-
gregated, the posterior remote.

Fore wings, eosta not dilated at the base, regularly
arched ; apex acut«; apical margin slightly excavated
o TT , t r L and oblique: anal angle rounded. The branches of

fl a, Headof ij.orf- ' ' ^

viornatana. the subcostal are eqnidistant, the apical, furcate,

fl 0,'Hind wing. The antennse are doubly ciliated, with rather long

hairs. The labial palpi are smooth, exceed the face by nearly twice

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140 [Sbftbmber

the leogtli of the he&d, rather slender, porrocted, thickest opposite the
face, theaoe aaddenly convex and taperiD>; to the tip, with the margin
beneath slightly coDcave.

Leptorii brerlomatana.— Fore wings tawny-yellow, with the veins and ner-
Tulea brown, and with brown strite beneath the nervules. An obliqne brown
band ariaee on the baeal third of the coeta, and runs to the middle of the dorsal
margin, but doei not reach it. On the cOBta, over the gubcostal nervulea. ia a
brown patch, etriated with darker brown. Extreme apical margin brown, cilia
tawny. Hind wingB pale yellowish- white. Head and labial palpi dark brownish.
Ooll. Ent. 8oc. Philadelphia.— Virginia.

BKIGB0TE8.

Oogta with a alight fold at the boat in tht%.
fmleiotei TiieMana. — Fore wingt greeDieh-yeDow. Costa at the base touched
with brown, with two testaceoua apots on the costa, one abont the middle and
the other midway between it and the tip of the wing. The first eoatal spot is
faintly extended across the wing as a yellowish band and the space between
the apots is of a somewhat lighter hue than the rest of the wing. Hind wings
grayish fuacous.

Author's Collection.

KIZODIAI
, Mixodiat intermiitana. — Fore wings blackish -brown varied with whitish
that ia much clouded and speckled with blackish -brown. The baeal patch is
indicated with tolerable distinctneas, is blackiBh- brown, and angulated over
the base of the diik. The central fascia, blaokiah-brown, of irregular form,
contracted in the middle, expanded on the dorsal margin, and contains, about
the end of the disk, a rafher cmtpicuo-ai white spot. The space between the
basal patch and central fascia is grayish, much I'louded with dark brown. Ex-
terior to the central fascia the wing ia sprinkled with white and at the anal
angle ia a white patch, speckled with dark brownieh. The coata ia geminated
with white; the geminationa ure rather large from the middle (o the tip. The
white geminations are separated by blacltish-brown Spots. Cilia dark-brown,
speckled with white especially beneath the tip. Hind wings grayish fusoons.

Author's Collection.

HIDBREA1
Sidereal nnbilaDa-— Fore wings brown, with dark brown markinga. The
baeal patch ia indicated by a dark brown angulated line and the central fascia,
by an irregular dork brown band which becomes ochreous- brown in the mid-
dle of the wing and seems lo be separated from a conspicuous dark brown tri-
angular patch near tlie dorsal margin, which ia edged narrowly with ochreous.
In the apace between the basal patch and central fascia in the fold of the
wing, is a dark brnwu spot. Kear the anal angle ia a dark brown, obliqnely
placed stripe, and one of the same hue above it. The costal apace above those
stripes is ochreoua.

SUKTPTTCHIA.* n. gen.

Hind wings broader than fore wings. Costal and subcostal veins
with a common origin j branches of subcostal connivent. Median vein
4-branohed, three of which aggregated, the two central ones from a
common base.

• lupis latns, tnoCT plioatura.

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Fore wings with a broad/oM, ext«Dding to the middle of the costa,
closely appreased; at leaat three times longer than broad; ooeta strught,
tip moderately acute, apical margia rounded. The nervules given off
from the posterior end of the cell are bent towards each other, or are
somewhat aggregated.

Head smooth, with ocelli at base of antennte. Antennie filiform,
simple. Labial palpi rfo not erceeii the face, are curved, smooth, rather
slender, espunded towards the tip. the apical joint scarcely perceptible,
except in front.

InTjptyoliU lUlgnsaua — Fore wingg white tioted with j'ellowEsli. The ba-
■itl patch is dark browD. The win); beyond the buBal patch ia nearly white
varied with leaden -colored ppeckles and atriped over the nervules with dull,
leadan-graj, trauBverBe Btripes, two of which near the anal angle form a white
ocetloid patch. Immediately interior to the ocelloid paWh is a small black
■pot, having a line of black atoms running into it, from above and beneath.
Below the apex, on the hind margin, is a triangular brown patch which it va.-
ried with grajish and dotted with black in the middle and along the tnaer
edge. The coata is geminated with white and striped with brown. Hind wings
dark fuBcouB.

I have before me a single specimen of the above insect, received
from my esteemed friend Benj. D. Walsh of Rock Island. It was
bred by Mr. Walsh from a willow gall, a year or two ago. I have no-
fortnnately mislaid the letter in which his account of it is vrritten.

The imago appears to me to differ from all the genera of Flicatae to
a degree that warrants me to describe it as a new genera.

CAIXIKCKEICA,* n. gen.
Fore wings narrow, with a very large ocelloid spot, nearly three
times longer than broad across the anal angle; costa nearly straight;
apes rather acute, apical margin obliquely round-
Hind wings broader than the fore wings.
Nenralion, as in loplocama.

Head small, smooth. Anteunee filiform simple.
"Labial palpi, porrected, exceeding the face by
one-half their length, nearly oyliDdrieal, but ex-
■l^BBudot Sidereal nu. ,,^ j I 1- / , ,i, j -1 .u

biiana. panded towards the tip and clothed with rather

8^Headofi:»rjji(jf<:Aio]ong scales beneath; apical joint soarcely per-

B a. Head ofdaUimonana ceptible.

lo'^'He^f loplocama ^° h}>Io,iim„ the wings are broader ; the costa
formoaana. of the fore wings dilated at the base. The labial

II a, Head of Carvocapim , . , , , , . „ ,

pomoneUa. psipi are broad, porrected, exceed the face by at

least one-half of their length, are much excised opposite the face, nearly
• x'i>A<m puloherrimnB, a^a •iguum.

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142 [Septembeb

straight beneath, broad and mttcb expanded beyond the face and

clothed above and beneath with long scales.

In Carpocapsa the wings are broader than in Callimo»e,7na ; the
abial palpi are cylindrical, esceed the face but tittle, closely scaled,
curved and ascending, the apical joint very distinct

It is probable that Calliinoxema or laploiawt may be identica] or
nearly so with the European genus Grapkf/lita. but both differ from it
in having the apicul branch of the subcostal vein of the fore wings
mpl; and in the furcate niedio-central nervule of the hind wings.

Callimosema isiBtUIana.— Fore winga pale jellovrish, abundantt; duated
nlong the costa and inner inoirgin with dark fuscous. From the baae nearlj to
the middle of the wing, proceeds a pale jellow basal stripe along the disk,
which terminates in a silver; spot. On the costa from the mtddte of the wing
to the tip are four equidistant pale yellow costal streaks, the first of which is
trauBTerse and ends in the middle of the wing in a ailverf spot, the last near
the tip is extended into a silvery line. From the silvery spot of the basal
streak proceeds a broad ochreoua stripe which widens as it proceeds to the
hinder margin, and contains between the first and lost costal streaks, a very
large ocello id spot; the costal half of this is pale -yellow, margined with silvery
and striated with dark fuscous lines; the dorsal half consists of three large
raised silvery spots, the center otie having three black spots on each side, the
one nearest the hinder margin of the wing, three on its basal side, and that
nearest the base of the wing, three externally and two intsrnolly. Cilia pala-
yellow, dusted with faseona. Hind wings dark fuscous, cilia pale yellowish.
Author's Collection.

A pair oi icintiUana was taken several years ago ofi a grass plat,
beneath a pear tree. One of them was unfurtuaately destroyed, by an
accident. I have aearched in every successive year for other speci-
mens, and up to the present time have not found them.

TINEINA.

BATBACHEDRA, Stainton.

Hind winps very narrow, pointed ; costa rather ctoncave from the
tip to near the base, where there I's a projecting tuft, inner margin eon-
^cave. The subcostal vein is simple, runs very near
y the costa and reaches it beyond the middle of the
;. The median vein is simple and runs nearly
parallel to the inner margin and enters it nearly op-
posite the costal termination of the subcostal vein ;
between these, in the middle of the wing, originates .
an independent discat branch, which is obacurely fur-
cate, its longest branch being lost before it reaches
the apes of the wing. There are two folds on the wing which resemble

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veins, one above and parallel to the median vein, the other, above and
parallel to the diacal branch.

Fare winga elongate-lanceolate. The discoidal ceil i» obliquelj/ placed
in the witiff, its lower angle approaching very near the dorsal margin
of the wing. The subcostal vein is arched, and gives off a long, obliqoe,
marginal branch from behind the middle of the wing, one at the supe-
rior angle of the cell and one intermediate. A very short and indis-
tinct vein closes the cell posteriorly, and two indistinct apical veins
succeed the third subcosto-marginal branch, one of which ia delivered
to the tip and the other to the costa behind the tip.

The median vein ia 8-branched, the two superior branches sometimes
fkim a common base and the posterior branch extremely ahiirt and in-
distinct; thence the median, runs obliquely and direct to the base.
The submedian is indistinctly forked at its base.

Head smooth, without ocelli. Ant«nns rather more than one-half
as long as fore wings, setaceous, joints thickly set, without hairs; the
basal joint, $korL Labial palpi moderately long, reonrved, acute;
second joint compressed, subclavat«. Toagne moderate, clothed with

Batraohftdra lalitipomonella.— Fore wings fOscous, with a rather broad whit-
ish stripe, freely dueled with fuacouB, running through the middle of the wing,
from the base and along the apical margin to ths tip. Near the basal third of
the wing on tbedoresl edge of the whitish stripe is an elongate, blackish -brown
spot, and from the middle of the wing towards the tip, it ia edged On its costal
side b; a blaekM-bravn line which contains sometimes a spot of the same hue.
The apical portion of the stripe is more freely dusted with fnSCouB than the
other portions. Cilia fuscous. Hind wings fuscous, cilia paler.

AateDDte dark fuacous, withont while onaulatioDS, except near the tip. Head
fuscous above, face white. Labial palpi dark fuscous; second joint, with a
white ring at the extreme tip, sometimes whits at the base, with a broad fus-
cous ring near the tip; terminal joint fuscous, with a more or less distinct
whitish central ring ond the eitreme tip whitish.

This is a very interesting " micro," not only in consequence of the
specific resemblance it bears to the European Batrachedra prman-
•piita, but of the discovery of its larva by one of our moat gifted and
promising entomologists, Mr. Heoj. D. Walsh of Rock Island, III.

In the note which accompanied the perfect insects, Mr. Walsh
writes : " I enclose herewith several specimens of a moth, bred from
the Tenth red in idous gall Salic is pomum Walsh MS., and a single one
from the Cecidomyiadous gall S- rhm/oules Walsh. This is the insect
that 1 think I mentioned to you as being very prettily marked in the
larva state, each segment having a broad, black band and the ground
color being whitish. I had a single one come out laat summer, but

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144 [September

the great balk of them hybemated either is larva or pupa stato and
oame out May 8th — 20th. They vary hat little. I have beaten larvae
of very Bimilar appearance off oak trees."

So far as I am informed, the larvse is unknown to European lepidop-
terists, although it is recorded that the perfect insect, pratanffusta , is
very common among willows and poplars in July, and may frequently
be observed sitting on the trunks of those trees with the anterior feet
put back, like Bedellin, and the head raised a little.

Mr, Walab haa the honor of having made an interesting discovery,
that puts an end to all uncertainty respecting the larva and ita food
plants.

In a subsequent letter Mr. Walsh kindly supplied me with the follow-
ing description of the larva :

" Length .2(1 inch. Body tapering at each end, opaque, milky-
whitish, with a few short, whitish hairs. The first segment behind the
head, with an obsemioircular, shining, glabrous, brown, dorsal shield ;
second segment with an interrupted, opaque brown, dorsal band on its
anterior edge, the interruption occupying about one-third of the band;
segments 3-12 with an uninterrupted opaque brown, dorsal band on
the anterior edge, and segment eleventh with a similar hand aft its tip
also. Head yellowish. Legs and venter immaculiite, whitish. Legs
six, prelegs ten, normally arranged. Spins a thread, wriggles mnch
when disturbed and runs backwards with great agility.

" This larva occurred in abundance Aug. 23rd, and subeeqnentlv id
the TenCbredinidous gall, S. pomtna Walsh MS., which grows OD the
leaves of Salis cordata. Each gall contained but a single larva, unac-
companied by tbe larva of the Nemalxu which makes the gall, which
it most consequently have destroyed or starved out, either in the egg
or in the larva state.

" A single imago came out in the autumn of the same year, but the
great bulk of them came out next spring, May 8 — 20, from galls kept
through the winter. There can be no doubt of the correlation of larva
and imago, because no other lepidopterous larva or imago occurred in
the gall 8- pomum, though I had three or four hundred of them in
my breeding vase. The insect must hybernate normally in the larva
state, for I noticed numbers of them in the spring crawling about
among the galls. In a Htate of confinement, it generally retires to the
inside of the gall to assume the pupa state, though I noticed one or
two cocoons spun among the galls. Probably in a state of nature it
hybernates in tbe gall, comes out of it in the spring and spins its co-
coon amongst dry leaves and rubbish.

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"I also bred a single imago of this same species, May 11th, from
the Ceoidomyidoas gall S. rhodoi^tt Waleh, from ^alla kept through
the winter, and I found in the spring a denuded imago of what was
apparently the same species, dead and dry amongst a lot of Tentbredi-
nidous galls, S. dermodwdpg Walsh MS., which is closely allied to S.
pomvm, but occurs on the leaves of a very distinct species of willow.
Thus we have three different willow-galls inhabited by the same moth,
two of them made by saw-flies and one by a gall-gnat.

" I have several timee beaten off black-oak trees larvse apparently
very similar to this Balrathedra, and witll the same harlequin-like
markings, but whether the two are specifically identical, I cannot say."

ORAOUUIU, Zell.

Proc. Ac. Sat. Bci., Jan. ISBD, p.S. Proa. Ent. Soc. Pbilad. Id. March, 1E63,
Id. Dec. 18B4, p. i05.

I wish to redescribe and change the name of a species, whose hist(»'y
I have ascertained, aod which I have recently bred. The first descrip-
tion was drawn from a rather worn specimen, but in the main, is cor-
rect. In order that the species heretofore described may be more
readily distinguished, I have tabulated them as follows :
Legs with whita tibia.
F. ir> ooetal balf-jetlow ; dorsal, purple, with central black

dot ~Seimodif»li«Ua-

Legs without white tibite.

F. w. with a yellow, trigonal, oogtal mark.
Mark large, extended to tip of wing.

F. w. reddiah-violet; mark distinot, siogle; baee of

inner margin yellow inpwblfrontalla-

F. w. dark purple; mark indistinctly doable; base

of inner margin dark purple Blaadella.

Mark small ; f. w. purplish, with coatal apota Mroniella.

F. w. with fasciaform, white markings.

Markings broad; with exterior costal spots falgid«Ila

Markings narrow, without costal spots.

With four equidistant streaks vennitell*.

With one long costal and dorsal streak near the

tip of wing itiiglfliiitella.

Oraeilaila DesBDdlfDliella.— i?. iriolacella. Free. Ac. Nat. Soi.. Jan. 1S60, p. T.~
The costal half of the fore wings, limited bj the fold, is yellow; thsdorsal half,
purple and the edge of the latter curves to the casta a little interior to the tip
of the wing. In the middle of the wing, on the edge of the purplish portion, ia
a black dot, and the costa along the middle has a few dots of the same hue, but
not BO coDspicuous. Cilia purplish. Uind wings dark fuscous : cilia the same.

Head and autennce purplish. Face white. Labial palpi white, with the
ends of the middle and terminal joints touched with brown. Hinder pair of
legs yellowish ; middle and anterior purplish -brown, with urhiU tara.

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HEFIIOiriA. Zell.

Proc. Ao»d. Wat-Boi. Philad., June, 1880, p. 214. Proc Ent, 8oo. Philad.,
March 1S62, p. U9. Id. Nor, 1S61, p. 82. Id. Jan. 1862, p. 133.

Since the foregoing pages were written, I have been suecessfal in
rearing N'. iagim-Ua (Vom leaves of oaks, collected during the latter
part of Julj ; and I am therefore able to gay definitely, that while the
Depticuliform mines in the leaves of the chestDut may be produced
by the larva of Buccvlalrix tri/asdella, tbose in the leaves of oaks
are certainly the work of a Nepticula miner.

The mines in chestnut leaves are shorther than those on oak leaves,
although very similar in appearance. The following is a table of the
species described to the present time.
Fore wings without spots or laacin.

Pole ochreous, duated with blackisb -brown iK^inellft.

F. w. with a white spot and a costal streali.

Darit brown ..PlatanelU.

F. w. with p»le or silvery fascite.

Blackish-brown; fascia median, onrved BnbifolielU.

Purplish-fuacoua ; fascia oblique, rather broad faiootibietla.

BroDzy-green ; with two fasciee .Mfaaeiella.

HaptionU BaglneUB.— Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad., Nov. 1861, p. St.—Fore wings
pale ochreoua, sprinkled or dusted freely, with blackish -brown, over the entire
surface. Cilia iichreoue, slightly clothed with hi ackish- brown. Head and face
blackish-brown. Eye-caps ochrsous.

The larvie were taken nearly half fed in leaves of black oak, on the
2dth of July, and at this date most of the mines are abandoned. The
larva is bright-green with a eeTitral dark-green line of ingesta. Head
slightly touched with brownish.

The mine is a serpentine, rather short tract, which, when occupied
or recent, is white and nearly transparent, with a narrow, very black'
central frasa line. It is frequently bent or curved as the larva ap-
proaches maturity. The cocoonet is yellowish-white. Both the imago
and larva are very small.

Upon the authority of Mr. H, T. Stainton, for which I feel the high-
est respect, " the ei: anterior legs so universally present in Lepidopte-
rous larvfe are wanting in Nepticula larvse, and are replaced by mem-
branous processes or prolegs ;" each of the remaining segments are fur-
nished with a pair of prolegs making eighteen in all. I find after a
careful examination, that counting the head as the first segment, in
N. sagintUa, the third and fourth have a pair of legs, the fifth segment
is without any, and the six following segments are each supplied with
a pair of prolegs. 8o that the formula for the legs of X. sagiiiella
would stand thus, making sixteen in all :

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I have not jet examined the nenration of N". goffinella and it maj be
that it is a Trifurcula. An examination necessitates the deatruction
of the minute specimen, and I wish to defer it until I have Becured
others. It appo^irs to me, however, that the eyecaps are too large to
permit sagittf//a to remain amongst the Neptieulae. The larvie of
Trifurcula are entirely unknown, eo that one can receive no aBsistunce
in classification ftom a knowledge of their habits.
BTTCCHIATBIX, Zeller.
Proc. Acad, Nat. aci., Jan. 1880, p. 13 i Jnne, 1860, p. 211,
Buconlatrix trifiwciella-— Fore wings ochreoua, with three eilvery, equidis-
tMit, costal streaks, the Qrst near tha base, the last at the begJDnmg or the
apical cilia, with the spaces between them somewhat darker than the general
hue. On the middle of the dorsal margin ie a spot of blaokzsh-brown, with a
patch of dispersed scales af the same hue, e^iterior to it, limited externallv by
a silverj dorsal streak. At the extreme tip is a small blackiah-brown spot,
with an jntercilial line of the same hue exterior to it. Cilia oehreous. Hind
wings fuscous; cilia the same.
Antennie fuscous. Sead ochreous; e^s-caps somewhat siWery -white.
The eocoonet of this species wiw found oq the leaf of a chestnut
tree early in July. The cocoon is elongated, ribbed externally aud
dark gray. The imago appeared in the latter part of July.

The leaves of chestnut is mined early in the season by a larva that

I have regarded as a A'ejjtiru^a from the charaelers of the mine, but I

am now disposed to think that the mine is made by the larva of trifas-

ciella during its early life. This mine is noticed in the Proceedings

for November, 1861, p. 85, under A^eptteula iiujinelki.

mCXTBTABIA, Haw.

Proc. Acad, Kat. Sol., Jan. 1860, p. 5.

Fore and Sind winga lanceolate, pointed. Fore viing), eubcoaial vein ailh three

branchet near the end af the diet; apical branch furcate near t(j base; ditcai ner-

vules, two. Mind iBinga, subcostal vein furcate; ditcai nervule, one.

Inonrvaria mediostriatalla. — Fore wings, irridescent bluish-purple, with a
broad golden stripe from the base to the middle of the dorsal margin, leaving
a stripe of the general hue on the base of the dorsal margin, and with a rather
broad, obliquely placed costal streak, of the same hae, at the beginning of the
apical cilia. The cilia are intermixed with golden scales. Hind wings red-
dish-purple, cilia fuscous. AntennEc and head pale-yellowish.
TakoQ on wing, in damp woods, the latter part of July.
This species differs in some respects from both russatella and Acert-
foliella and from the Knropean typical species. The antennse are
nearly if not quite as long as the fore wings, and perhaps in the future
it may be necessary to create a new group for its reception. I have
not deemed this advisable at present, as its oral parts are quite identical
with those of the genus.
Easton, Pennsylvania.

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DXBOBIPTtOV 07 A VKW BTSOOM OV IIXSiriTIfl.

BY WM, H. EDWARDS, NEWBUBQH, N. Y.

{OommunKated Aug. H, IBeS.)

LiHENiTie Pbosekpina.
■ Malf. — Expands 2y^ inches.

Upper Bide dnil black, secondaries only having « slight blaish tinge
on the dislc ; hind margins bordered by a double row of blue crescents,
which are wanting on primaries except at inner angle; the marginal
row of Beoondaries ia indistinct ; beyond the crescents, on secondaries,
is a row of russet spots almost obsolete ; primaries have a white streak
on Costa a little more than half-way from the base, a white sub-apical
spot divided by the costal nervure, and a curved row of indistinct whit-
ish spots across the wing from the coalal streak io the inner margin
near the angle; emarginations of both wings white.

Under side light reddish-brown, with a dark shade over the basal
half of primaries ; both wings have a double row of pale blue crescents
on a black ground, the apical, on primaries, whitish ; preceeding these
is a row of russet spots, before which, on secondaries, is a blue white
streak ; primaries have a large sub-apical white spot, aud a white band,
ungular without, curved within, corresponding to the row of spots ou
upper side ; base of wings marked by russet and blue spots, primaries
having one of the former on the arc and another within the cell, both
edged with black ; between these is a small blue spot and a second
next base ; secondaries have a russet spot on the arc, another within
the cell and a third at base of sub-costal nervnre ; costa of both wings

Body black above; thorax black, abdomen white; palpi and fore
legs white edged with black; antennse and clab black.

Fi-mak unknown ; Oatskill Mountains.

The specimen above described was taken by me in I8I>3, near the
Mountain House. On the 2nd of August of this year (1865), I took a
second male of same characters in the Stony Clove, a few miles west of
the Mountain House. The upper surface agrees in all respects with
the other, except that the band of white spots of primaries is indicated
by a few scales only. On the under side the band extends from inner
margin two-thirds across the wing only. This species differs from
Ursula in color of both surfaces, in the white band, in the russet spots
on upper side of secondaries, and the whitish streak on same wings
below. The lower surface more resembles Arthetnie, and the shape of
secondaries is that of Artkemi's, being more rounded than Unula.

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PROCEEDINGS OP MEETINGS.
July 10, 1865.
Prof. Jacob Ennis ia the Chair.
Eight members preseiit.

The following Papers were presented for pablioation in the Pro-
ceedioga : —
" MoDogrsph of the Philanthidsa of North America, by E. T. Gree-

" Oa some new species of Pselaphidse, bj Emll Brendel, M. D."

Aad were referred to Committees.

On ballot, Mr. Geoi^ W. Biddle, Jr., was elected a Eetident Mem-
ber, and Mr. F. H. B. Loweree, of Goadalajara, Mexico, a Ctrrret-
pondini/ Member. '

Adoubt 14, 1865.
Vice President PiNB in the Chair.
Nine members present.
The following Papers were presented for publication in the Pro-

" North American Micro-Lepidoptera, by Brackenridge Clemens,
M. D."

" Description of a new species of Limenitis, bj William H. Ed-
wards."

And were referred to Committees.

A oommunicatioQ was rend from the Publication Committee, asking
the permission of the Society to publish an occasional Bulletin, en-
titled '' The Practical EDtomoIogist," to contain short papers on prac-
tical Entomology, for gratuitous distribution among Farmers and Ag-
riculturists; the cost of publishing the same to be defrayed by pri-
vate contributions.

On motioD, the permission of the Society was granted.

On ballot, the following named persons were elected Corregpondiag
Members of the Society : —

Dr. Cajetan Felder, V. Prea. Imper. Zool. Soo. Vienna, Austria.

Emil Brendel, of Keokak, Iowa.

A. Bolter, of Chicago, Illinois.

W. luelicb, of New York City.

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Septeubbr 11, 1865.

Presideat Bland in the Chdr.

Seven members present.

Mr. Bland exhibited speciinens of Tachinus fimbriolatm, and a Bpe-
cieB of Onthophagui, vbich be found inhabiting a species of fungus
commonly called the " Puff-ball," when in an advanced state of decay,
and found in damp situations. The same species of fungus growing in
higher situations were, he found, to be the habitat of a different insect
— the Doreatoma timilis Say. In the fungus commonly called the
" toad-stool," he found Oxifpoi-us vittata and lateralis, wbicb are ap-
parently peculiar to this species of fungus ; Trttoma humeralin and
thoracica were also found quite abundantly in the same situation.
Under leaves, in moist places, he found specimens of Anctdm bruniw.in'
and Atranui pvhe»cen».

On ballot, the following named persons were elected Ci/rrespon/Hug
Members of the Society : —
F. W. Putnam, of Salem, Mass.
Howard J. Hunt, of Burlington, N. J.
Mrs. E. F. Bridgham, of New York City.

October 9, 1865.
President Bland in the Chair.
Eleven members present.

The Committee to whom was referred the writing of a Memoir of
the late Thomas B. Wilson, JI, D., made their final report, which was.
on motion, accepted and placed in the hands of the Publication Com-
mittee for printing.

The following papers were presented for publication in the Pro-

" A syoonymical Catalogue of North American Sphingidse, with
notes and descriptions, by Aug. R. Grote and Coleman T. Robinson."

" Lepidopterological Notes and Descriptions, No. 2, by Aug. K.
Grote and Coleman T. Robinson."

And were referred to Committees.

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sBBiGooi^le

sBBiGooi^le

A BTnoiLj^latl OaUlogne of Horth Ameriaui SPEINGIDA, with HoMi aid
D«ieriptioD*.

BV AUQ. R. QROTB AND COLEMAN T. K0BIN80N.

Family SPHINGID^.

Tribe, Macrtiijlottini,

Genus LZPISESIA, Grot«.
1. llaTotwolKto.

Haerogloma fiav^faaciata. Barn ston, Walk. C, B. M. Lep. Pt. 8,p.87. (IBAB.)
liacrvgloma fiariifaaciaia, Clemens, S. N. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. B. Phil. p. 131.

(185«.)
MacrogloumJlavqfaxuHa, Morria, Syn. N. A. Lep. Sin. Insji, IM, (1882.)
Lt^itesiafiavofasciata, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proc E. 8. ITiil. Vol. S. p. 3fl.

17). (188S.)
MabitaU—Atiaatic District I

BE8IA. Fabricius, emend, nobis.

Maerogto^

llos»a dimnis, BoiaduTttl, Sp. Gen. Plate Ifi, fig. 2. (1836.)
■" - Harria, Cat. N, A. Spli, Sill. Jour. Vol. 38, p. 308 (28), (1839.)
Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Part 8, p. 81. (1856.)
dmnis. Clemens, S. S. A. Bnh. Jour. A. S. S Phil. p. 129. (1869.)
d^nis, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. 8m. Ina. p. 14B. (1882.)
Harris, Ins. Inj. Veg. new ed. p. 358. (1883.)

Setia dfffinU,
Sabitat—AHantie Di

HXXOESHAOIA, Grote t, Kobiuson.

Sail niJlcaud-U, Walker, C. B. M. Lop. Part 8, p. 82. (1868.)
Not Seaia rujcaudia, Kirby. (1837.)

Seemorrhagia gracilu, Grote t fiobinson. Plate 3. figs. 1 and 2, % .
HoWtaf.— Atlantic District!

i. thytbe.

Sphinx Thyabe, Fabricius, Sjat. Ent. Fiena. et. Lipa. p. &i8. (mi.)

Sphinx Thystt. Fabricius, 8p. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 155. (1781.)

^inx Pelatgnt, Cramer, Exot. Vol. 3, p. US. PI, 2+8, fig. B. (1782.)

Se»io Thyabe, Fabriciaa, Mant Ina. Vol. 1, p. V9. (1787.)

Sttia Thysbe, Fabricius, Ent SysL Haf. Vol. 3, p. 381. (1T«3.)

Sesia Oimbxeiformia, Stephens, III. BriL EnL Hauat, Vol. 1, p. 13S. (1838.)

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150 [November

Cephrmodet Pela^iu, HQbner, Vera. 8ehm. p. 131. (1SI8.)
Beaia I'daagua. Harris, Cat. N. A. Bph. Bill. Jour. Vol. 36. p. 308 (28). (1930.)
Sena Tkyahe, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Purl 8, p. 82. (185B.)
Besia Thytbe, Clemens, B. N. A. 8ph, Jour. A. N. 8. Phil, p, 12fl. (1858.)
Saia thy»be. Morns, Byn, N. A. Lep. Sm. Ine. p. UB. (1BS2.)
Betiapela^ui, Harrie, lot. Inj. Veg. new ed. p. 326, fig. ISO. (1803.)
Hamorrha^ thysbe, Grote k HobinBon. (186*,)
ZToWiaf.— Atlantic Diatrict!

B. fit*iii<i4iiclla.

MaeroQ/otsit/uKicawlii. BoiBduvftl, Walk. G. B. M. Lep. PL S, p. 83. (ISSS.)

Besia/uaeieawiii, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Part 8, p. 83. ()8Se.)
Seaia/usBicaudis. Clemena, B. N. A. Sph. Jonr. A, H. 8. Phil. p. 130, (1858.)
Senaf-uscicaudia, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep, 8m. Ins. p. ISO. (1862.)
Hamorrhaqia fugcicaadia, Grote t Robinson. (1865.)
floftitof.— Atlantic District!

AELLOPOB. HUbner.
T. tuitalni.

>, Linn., Syst. Nat. Vol. 1, p. 803, No. 25. (1786.)

I. Drury, Eiot. Vol. 1, p. 57, Plate 28, fig. 5. (1770.)
tint, Oramer, Exot. Vol. I, p. 107, Plate 68, flg. F. (17
^inz Tantalus. Fabriciue, Sp. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 153. (17810

Saia, Tantalus. Fabrioius, Mant. I
Aellopox Tanialui, Hilbnar, Eint. Samm. .

Vul. 2. (1808—182*.!
Macroglotaa lonata. Westw., Drury, Vol. I, p. 52 ; PI. 28. fig. 1. (1837.)
Masrogloaia Tantalvi, H-S., Corr. Bl. p. 58 (20|. (1885.)
AellojiHts Ihnifl/its, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Pn>c. E. 8. Phil. p. 42 (10), {186S.)
Babitai. — Tropical Insular District!

». titan.

Sphinx T^tan, Cramer. Exot. Vol. 2, p. 73, fig. F. (1778.)
Aellopos Titan. Hubiier, Veri. 8chm p. 131. (1818.)

Macroghatum annulomm, Swainaon, Zool. 111. PI. 132, upper fig. (1822.)
Maerogloaea bnlteata. Kirtlanrt, Sill. Jour. N. B. Vol. 13, p, 337. (18S2.)
Afacroghita Titan, Burin., Bph. Braz. p. 17. (1858.)
Macroghisa Titan, H-S., Corr. Biatt. p. 58 (20), (1885.)
Aellopoa Titan, Grote, Notes Cub. Bph, Proc. E. 8. Phil. p. il (9). (1R65.)
faiifa^— Atlantic and Tropical Insular Districts!

ZUPTKBHOaLOSBUlC, Grote.
8. Mgra,

SSacrogloaaiitn aagra. Poey. Cent. Lepid. Cub, Decade 2. (13.12.)
JfncT-iij/iWTOsaj™, Walker, C.B M. Lep. Part 8, p. 89, (1858,)
MacTOglosea aagra. Clem., Sjn. N. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. B. Phil. p. 132. (18S8).
Macrogloaaa aagra, Morris. Byn, N, A, Lep, p. 152. (1882.)
JUacrogloasa ar^ra, H-3., Corr, Blatt. p, 56 (20). (1885.)
EiipvrrhogloSiuin eoora, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proo. E. 8. Phil. p. *S (11).
(1865.)
JToiiioi.— Tropical Insular District!

;, p. 80, PI. 146, fig. G. (1778.)
j-aimyras Cecvlus. HUbner, Verz. Schm. p. 132. (1816.)
MacToglofaumfaaciatum, Bwains. Zo6\. 111. PI. 13S, lower fig. (1822.)
Macrogloaaa Ctmlaa, Walker, C. B. M. Part 8, p. 89. (1856.)
MacToglosaa Ctodua, Clemena, S. N. A. Sph. Jour. A.N. 8. Phil. p. 132. (ISSS.)
Mfierogloaaa Cecvlua, Morris, Byn. N. A. Lep, Sin, Ins. p. 151. (1882.)
EaVMTTlu^loasam CicuiiM, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proo. E. 8. Phil.p.43 (11).
(1S8S.)
Habilat. — " Hezioo." (Clemens.)

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1866.]

THTBEIIS, BwaiD!

Thyrtua AbboHi, Swaineon, Zo61. Ill, Vol. 1, PI. 60. (1S21.)
Thyreiu Abbotii, H&rris, Cat. N. A. aph. Bill. Jour. Vol. 36, p. 307 (27). (1838.)
Ths/rms Abbotii, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Part 8, p. 90. (1836.)
Thyrtui Abboiii, Clemens. 8. N. A, Bph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 13S. (I8S9.)
Thyreus Abbotii, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. 8m. Ina. p. 156. (litSS.)
Babitat—AtlAatic District I

AltPHIOIt, HUbner.

Sphiw NtMua. Cramer

ajAini; Jfewu*, Fabrioi ., ^ , ,

SpAinx Saunia, Fabrinius, Ent. Sjst, Haf. Vol. 3. p. 3SS. (1793.)
Amphion Naaus, HUbner. Vert. Schm. p. 135. (1816.)
ThyrewaT Xesma, Harr., Cat. N.A.Sph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 86, p. 308 (2B). (IBSlt.)
Thyrev.1 JfeseKS, Walker, C. B. M, Lep. Part 8, p. 99. (1858.)
Thyretta Staaua, ClotDenB, 8. S. A. Spli. Jour. A. K. 8. Phil. p. ISS. (1860.)
Thyrms Xtasas, Morris, S;d. N. A. Lep. Sm. Idb. p. 1ST. (ISSS.)
ffoiiiai.— AUaatio Diatrict !

SEIBAltU, Clemena.
13. iuorlpU.

Pterogonf inacriptum, Harris, Cat. N. A. Bph. Bill. Jour. Vol. SB, p. 30* (SB).

(1838.)
Thyreaat iTueriptut, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Part 8, p. 100. (1BS6.)
Deidamia inaenpta, Clem.. By n. N.A. Bph. Jour. A. M. B, Phil. p. 13T. (1869.)
Deidariiia inacnpta, Morria, Bjn. N. A. Lep, 8m. Ids. p. 159. (1882.)
Habitat. — Atlaatic Diatrict!

PBOSEBFINTTS. Habner.

apkinigauTx, Bmith, Abb. i. 8m., Ina. Sa. Vol. 1, p. 81, PL 31. {1797.1
Proaerpinna gaura, Hubner, Vere. Bohm. p. 132. (1818.)
TAyreiM gartnx. Walker, C. B, M. Lep. Part 8, -p. 100. (IBSfl.)
Proaerpinut gaura, Clem., 8yn. N. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. 8, Phil. n. 133. (18S».)f
FroaerpiHHs gaura, Morris, Sjn. N. A. Lep. 8m. lua. p. 1S3. "(1862.) ?
flbftitot.—" Georgia." (Abbot.) "Teia8."(?) (Clemens.)
15. alukiB.

Iterogon ClarkiiE, Boisd., Ann. 8oc. Ent Fr. 3ieme «er., t 10, p. 310. (1B63.)
Thyreuar Clarkia. Walter, a B. M. Part 8, p. 262. (1856,)
Pnteiyinwi Ciarkia,, Clem,, Svn. N. A. Bph Jour. A.H. 8. PhiL p. 134. (1859.)
PnatrpiAtu Clarkia^ Morris, 8yn. N. A. Lap. 8m. Ins. p. 154. (1882.)
Eabitat.~" California." (BoiBduval.)

EUFBDBEBFIRHS, Qrote * Bobinsou.
18. pluaton.

ProitTpinua Phaetim, Boisduval, MSB.
Hupn^erpinva Phaeton, Grote ik Robinson. (1885.)
.ffoftitot— WMtern Diatrict!

IHTO, Hubner.
IT. IniriiliTia.

Sphinx luyttbria, Linn., " Mant. 2, p. 637."

SpMnx Ingubria, Drury, Eiot. Vol. 1, p. 61, Plate 28, flg. 2. (1T70.)

Sphinx lugubris, Fabr., Syat. Ent. s. Ins. Plena A Lips. p. 53T. (1T75.)

i^Ainr lugubris, Fabr., Sp. Ina. Vol. 2, p. 140. (1781.)

^hinx Fegeua, Cramer, Eiot. Vol. 3, p. 56, PI. 225, fig. E. (1782.)

Sphinx Ingubria, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 92. (1787.)

^hinx luffubrii, Fabricius, Ent. ByaL Vol. B, p. 356. (1TV2.)

Spkinx lugubria, Smith, Abb. i 8m. Ina. Ga. Vol. I, p. 50, PI. 3D. {1T97.)

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152 [November

Enyo Phegau, HQbaer, Veri. Schm. p. 132. (IRIA.)
Thyraa i«ju*ri», Westw., Drury, Vol. 1, p. ' ' ""
. Hit/Teat luaitbrii. Bar., Cat. N. A. Sph. Sill.
Sni/o Ivgubrii, Walter, C. B. M. Lep. Pt. 8,
Pterogrm luffubrii, Burm., Byat Ueb. Bph. I

.Enyo /ujaS™, ClBm., Bjn. H. A. Sph. Jour. , -

Enya tttgubrii, Morris, 8yn. N. A. Lep, 8m. Ins. p. 182. (1862.)
Enyo lugubrii, H-8., Corr. BUtt, p. 57 (21). (1865.)
Enyo lugubriii, QmW, Notea Cub. Bph. Proo. E. 3. Pbil. Vol. 5, p. 44 (12).
(1805.)
Habiiat. — Atlsntio and Tropical Ingular DiBlricts !

aAim Camerlua, Cram., Eiot Vol. 3, p. 63, PI. 225, fig. A. (1T82.)
Snyo Camertua, Huboer, Verz. Bchm. p. 132. (1816.)
£!nyo OinerdM, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Ft. 8, p. 114. (18&6.)
Enyo Canteriui, II-8,, Corr. Blatt, p. 57 (21). (1865.)
Enyo Camtxtwi, Qrote. Notea Cub.Bph. Proe. E. 8. Phil. Vol. 5, p. M
(I8e&.}
Habitat. — Tropical laBular District I
le. danum,

Bpkijuc Danum, Cramer, Eiot. Vol. 3. p. 53. PI. 235, llg. B. (1T82.)
Enyo Danain, Hubner, Verz. Bchm. p. 132. (ISId.)
Enyo Danum, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Pt. 8, p. 118. (1868.)
, IHerog&n Daav-tn. Burm., Syst. Ueb. Sph. Brar. p. 16. (1856) ?
.Enyo DanuM, H-8.. Corr. Blatt, p. 57 (21). (18B5.)

Enya Danum, Grote, Notea Cub. Bph. Proc. E. B. Phil. p. 4&. (13) (1865
£iiJttai.— Tropical Insular District!

ao, gorgon.

&pKinx Gorgon, Cramer, Eiot. Vol. 2, p. 73, PI. 142, fig. E. (1779.)
Enyo Oorgon, Hubner, Verz. Sohra. p. 132. (181S.J
Enyo lugabra, HUbaer, Zutr., 3rd Huud. p. 40, figs. 695, 698, (1825.)
Enyo Gorgon, Walk., C. B. M. Pt. 8, p. 114. (1860.)
EabCtat—" Weat Indiea." {Auth. Weidemeyer.)

21. ? olilon>Ft«Ta.

Sphinx cUoropiera. Party, "Del. Anim. Artip, Bria, PI. 31, flg. 3."
Enyo cklo>vpUra, Walker, C. B. M. Pt, 8, p. 118, (1856.)
£a5i(of.— " Honduras." (Walker,)

EIMSBOFLAIIEB, Hubner.

22. pHudothyreni.

CVtrtlommo oiclus ! H-8., Corr. Blatt, p. 57 (21). (1865).
Not Sphinx oiciia. Cram. EzoL Vol, 3, p, 39, pi, 218, fig. F. (1782.)
Hemeroplanea paeudothyreve, Grote, Notes Cub. Bph. Pros. E. S. Phil.
(14), pi. 1, fig. 1. (1885.)
Si^iiaU — Tropical Insular District!

PEBIOOKIA, BoiaduTal.

23. luea.

; laaca, Fabricius, "Oen. Ins. Mant. p.
iriciua, Sp. Ins. Vol. 2. p. 14
iriciua, ManL Ins. Vol. 2, p. 92.

p. 272."
; lusca, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. Vol. 2. p. 140, (1781.)

Sphinx lasca, Fabricius, Eot. ByaL Vol, 3, ]>, 368. (1792.)
Perigonia luKa, Walker, C. B. M. Lep, pt. 8, p, 161. (1858.)
Fer^onia lusca, ClGmenB, Byn, K. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. B. Phil. p. 139. (185U.)
Peraonia Imca. Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. Bin. Ins. p. 16U. (1S«2.)
Perxmnia lutca, H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 58, (20.) (1885.)

Pengonia luara, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proo. E. S. Phil. p. 47, (16.) (1886.)
ira*ita(.— Tropical Insular and Continental Districts I

^aovGoOt^lc

1865.] 153

34. lefabTTii.

Marroffloiaa lefebvrii, Lucsa, Bagra, Hist, de I'ilo de Cab*. (H-S.)
iVrijwnio te/eSurii, Grote, Notea Cub. 8ph. Proc. B.S.Phil, p. 48 (IB). (18B5.)
Kabilat— Tropical InauUr DiatrioU

25. niUtnU.

Pei-igoHia rtMibila, Walker, M88. [
BaUUit.—" Meiioo," (Walker.)
20. dlTlu.

Perigonia diviaa, Herri ch-Sch»ffer, H8S.

Pcrigonia suJAonui , , ......

Feriptmia tubhamata, Clem., Byn. K. A. 8ph. Jour. A.N, 8. Phil. p. 138, (18iB.)
Periffonia tu-bhamals, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lap. 8m. Ina. p. 160. (1S82.)
Ifabilat—" Mexim." (Walker.)
2R. glauoeioeu.

Perigonia g/aufeerem, Walker, C. B. M, Lep. part 8, p. 103. (I8S*.)
Ferigonia glauceacejii, Clem., Syn. H. A. 8ph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. I3S. (IB59.)
Ferigonia glaucescens, Morris, 8 jn. N. A. Lep. 8m. Ins. p. 180. (1862.)
Baiitat.— "Si. Domingo." (Walker.)

CALUOKKA, BoiBduvaL
SO. lyDBitaa,

Sliini iKOitus, Cramer, ExoL Vol. 4, p. ISO, plate 381, fig. A. (IT82.)
etw Ikatlu^, 1 ; Obner, Veri. 8cliin. p. 136. (1H16.)
Caiiiomma lycaatua. Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 110. (1850.)
Sphinx Oalianna, Burm., Sph. Brai. p, «. (18&tl.)

aaiiomma lyautva, Clem., gyn. N. A. Bph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 141. (1SS9.)
Caltiomma lyctatiu, H-S., Corr. Blatt p. 57 (21). (1865.)
OaUomma iycaat'ttt, QtoK, Notes Cub. Bph, Proo.E.S. Phil, p.48 (16). (1885.)
CalUomna du;>'anna,Orote, Notes Cub.Sph. Proc.£.B.Phil.p.4e(lT). (186&.)
.Hail faf.— Tropical Insular District I

Tribe, Ckeerocumpim.
OTIta, Hubner.
30. olMuilni.

Sphinx CkxrHwi. Cramer. ExoL Vol. 3. p. 91. pi. 247, fig. A. {1T8S.)
Sphiw aiaiea^, Bm\Ui, Abh. * am. Ins. Oa. Vol. 1, p. »3, pi. 27. (1797.)
Oiui Charilut, Hubner, Vert. Bchm. p. 142. (1816.)
Chterocampa Chicritui, Harris, Cat. N. A. Sph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 36, p. 302 (22).

(1839.)
Darapstt OuxTilut, Walker, C. B. M. part 8, p. 183. (ISSfl.)

Darapm Charilvs. Clem., 8yn. N. A. Bph. Jour. A. N. S. Phil. p. 147. (1859.)
r,_.. _._ ^._...-,.. .. __:. B_._ .T . tep. 6m. Ins. p. 1(18. (1882.)

i. Veg. new ed. p. 328. (1863.)
0(H* Charitus. Grole, NoteaCub. Sph. Proc. B. 8. Phil. p. 81 (49). (1865.)

Darapaa Charilaa, Morris, Byn. N. A. Lep.
- - " ■^ ' ' i. Ve

•-impa Charii
7Aari7«s, Gro;
—Atlantic Diatricl

31. mrron.

Sphitix Mynm, Cramer, ExoL Vol. 3, p. 91, pi. 247, fig. C. (1782.)
/ipKinr pampinaWr, Bmith, Abb. A Sm. Ina. Qa. p. 55, pi. 28. (1797.)
Otut Myron, Hubner, Veri. Schm. p. 142. (1816.)
Otut Cwtat, Hubner, Zutr. 3d Hand, p, 23, fig, 321-322. (1823.)
Chirrocampa Pampiaairii, Harris, Cat, H. A. Sph. Bill. Jour. Vol, 38, p. 301

(21). (18.m)
Darapaa Myron, Walker, C. B. M. part 8, p. 183. (185B.)

^aovGoOt^lc

154 [NOVBMBEB

Darapta Myron, Clemena, Sja. N, A. Bpb. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 14T. (185»0
Darapta ifynn, Morris, Syn. N, A, Lap. 8m. Ina. p. 16A (1882.)
Charocampa pampinalrix, Harris. Ins. Inj. Veg.p, 327, pi. 6, flg. 4. (18B3.)
Otttt Mynm, Qrote, Notes Cub. 6ph. Proo. E. S. Phil. p. 81 (48). (188*,)
^ofrifst.— Atlantic District!
33. *«ntooloT.

Charnfampaversicolor, Har., C. N. A. Sph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 36, p. 303 (23). {1839."
Ckarocampat verncolor. Walker, C, B. M. Lep. part S, p. 131. (18ofl.)
Darapta versicolor, Clem., Bya. S. A. Suh. Jour. A. N. 3, Phil. p. 148. (1858.)
Darapsa versicolor, Morris, Byn. N. A. Lep. 3m. Ids, p. 168. (18B2.)
Ourrocampa verticolor, Hams, Inj, Veg. new ed. p. 328. (1883.)
0(iM versicolor, Grote, Sotes Cub. Sph, Froc, E. S, Phil, p. 81 (49). 1S85.)
.Boitdif.— Atlantic Districtl

Darapaa Pholut, Clem., Syn. N. A. ej.h. Jour, A. N. 3. Phil, p, 148. (18S9.)
Darapsa Pholaa. Morris, Syn. N. A. tep. 8ra. Ins. p. 169. (1862.)
Otut Pholvs, Grote. Notes Cub, Sph. Proc. £. 8. Phil. p. 81 (49). (1816.)
tfoftttot,— " West Indies," (Cramer,)

SASAPBA, Walker.
M. rhodoeent.

Darapsa rhodoeera, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 184. (1856.)
Dampea rhodoeera, Clem,, Syn. N. A. 8ph. Jour, A, N. 8. Phil. p. 14
Darapta rhodoeera, Morris, Syn. N, A. Lep, 8m. Ins. p. 170. (1882.)

Darapsa rhodoeera, Grote, NotOB Cub. Sph. Proo. E. a Fhil. p. 81 (49). (188S.)
Sabifat—" St. Domingo," (Walker.)

PEBGEBA, Walker,
Sb. thorfttt*.

r, Zutr. 3d Hund. p. 30, fig. 525—528. (1825.)

- " " ■- Lep.p---" '

--.^_- , .3ph.,

Pergesa thorates, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep.
Ptrgesa thorates, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proc. £. 8
Jatitot.— Tropical Insular Districtl

CEJEAOCAKPA, Duponchel.
36, gnndlaohU.

Churoeampa gundlaehii, Herrich-Schnffer, Corr. Blstt p. 149. (1863,)
auerocampa gundlachi. H-8., Corr. Blatt. p, 58 (22). (l«rtS.)
OuETOeampa gvndUKhii, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proc. E. 8. Phil, p. 51 (19),
(1866.)
BbJi^at.— Tropical Insular District I

Oreua Forms, Hubner, Samni. Exot. 8ch. Lep, 2, Sph. 3, Leg, 2, En. B, Obi.

1. (1806—1824.)
Darapsa Porcvs, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p, 187. (1856.)
Okcerocampa porcaa, H-8., Corr. Blatt. p, 58 (22). (1865.)
Chameanpa parcus, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proc. E. 8. Phil. p. 53 (21). (1865.(
Sabilat — Tropical Insular District!

sasiGoOi^le

1865.]

b. Vol. 2, p. 125, PI. ITS, fig. B, (I77fl.)

- "1.2, p. " '

2, p. i
x2feckut, Fabr., Ent. 8yat.Vof. 3, p. 377. (1793.)
.,... jtra Nechat, HUbner, Veri. Schm. p. 135. [1818.)
Caarocampo Chiron, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Part 8, p. 132. (1866.)
Not Sphinx Chiron, Drury, Exot. Vol. 1, p. 56, PI. 26, fig. 3. (1770.)
Ourrocampa Chiron. Clem., Sjn. K. A. Bpb. Jour. A. N. S. Fhil. p. laO. (1859.)
Chteroeampa C4iVo?t, Morris, Syn. H. A.Xep. 8in. Ins. p. 172. (1882.)
OuBWiampa Seckia, H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. 58 (22). (1865.)
CAxmcampa Jfeciits, GrotB,Notea Cub. Bph. Proo. E. 8. Phil. p. 50 (18), (1865.)
Sa6i(a(.— Tropical Insular Diatriet!

Charocanipa verfuta, Clem., 8yn, N. A. 8ph. Joar, A. N, 8. Phil. p. 152. (1F5S.)
Ouerocampa veriuia, Morris, Syn. S. A. Lep. Sm. luB. p. 174. (1BS2.)
SabUit.—" Mexico," (Clemens.)
42. pTOoae.

C'harocampa prwne, Clem., 8yn. N. A. 8ph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil, p. 151. (18S9.)
ChanKampa pTocne, Morris, Byn. N. A. Lep. Sm. Ins. p. 173. (1862.)
Habitat.—" California." (Clemena.)

" rv,l! ,_.. .,r- ..-.r ,-o-- , -

9. BysL Ent. s. Ina. Plena, et Lips. p. 547. (1775.)
X terta. Fabr. Bp. Ids. Vol. 2, p. 153. (1781.)
X Uran, Cramer, Eiot. Vol. 4, p. 226, pi. 3B7, 6g. C. (1782.)
X Ursa, FabriciuB, Mant. Ina. Vol. 2, p. 9». (1787.)
ikinx tfsa. Fab., Ent. 3yat. Vol. 3, p. 378. (1793.)
•hian terta, 8mith, Abb. * 8m., Ine. Ga. Vol 1, p. 75, pi. 38. (1797.)
Ihereira terta, Hubner, Veri. 8ehra. p. 135. (1818.)
Deitephila terfa, Weatw. Drury, Vol. I, p. 56, pi. 28, fig. 3, (1837.)
Charo-ampa term, Harr., Cat. N. A. Bph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 3(1, p. 303 (23). (IRSW,)
Melopailii term, Duncan, Nat. Libr. VoL 37, pi. 6, fig. 1 ; pi. 6, Bg. 1. (1842.)
Chirrocampa ieraa. Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 131, (1856.)
Philampelas ttrta. Burmeister, Bph. Brai. p. 4, (1856.)

Ou^ocampa Uraa, Clem., 8vn N. A. Bph. Jour. A. H. 8. Phil. p. 150. (1859.)
Charocampa Ursa, Morris, 8yn. N. A. Lep. 8m. Ins. p. 171, (1862,)
Oueroeampa ieriia, H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 58 (22). (1865.)

OiaTOcampa terta. Grote, Notes Cub. Bph. Proc. E. B. Phil. p. 56 (24). (18*5.)
Boiitai.— Atlantic and Tropical Insular Districts!

44. robluoDii.

],fig. 2. (1865.)
OvKmeampafaleo, H-8., Corr Blatt. p. 148. (1883.)
Not C/uerocampa falco. Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 132. (1856.)
Ch'enicampafalco, H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. 58 (22). (18650
BahitttL — Tropical Insular District I

sasiGoOi^le

156 [NOVEUBER

Oiarocampafalco, Qrote, Notaa Cub. 8ph. Proe. E, S. Phil, p, 56 (S4). (18(14.)
SabitaL—TTopieei Contiaental Dietrict!

DEHEFHILA, Octuenbeimer.
M. intarmtdlk.

Deiiepkila inltrmedia, Kirby, Faan. Amer. Bor. Vol. 4, p. 302. (OODO.)
£a6i(o(.—" Canada." (Kirby.)
4T. okKmansrii.

SpAini Epilahii. Harris, Cat S30 (1B33) 2d ed. S91. (1B35.)

DtUtphita chanuxnerii, Harris, Cat. N. A. 8ph. 8ill. Jour. p. 305 (25). 11H3B.)

■>.... ,.._ .. ... ._ TjateF —

Deikphila chaournerii, Harris, Agassiz, Laue Sup. p. 3ST, pi. T, fis. 2. (1856.)
Deil^hila gain, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part R, p. ISS. (IH56.)
Not Dtilephila galii, Stspheng, etc. (Europe.)

DtiUphila gain, Clem., Syn. N. A. 8ph, Jour. A. N. S. Phil. p. IM. (1859.)
DeiUphiia cKaituEotrii, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lee. Btn, Ina. d. 185. 11862.)
Dtilephila chanKenerii, Harris. Ina. Ir
Dtilephila chamiKiKrii, Grate, Notes Ci
Sabiiat, — Atlantic DiaCrictt

48. oalTerlBft-

Deitephila CalBtrUyi. Qrote, Notes Cub. 8ph. Proc E. 8. Phil. p. 5B(24). pi.
I, iig. 4. (isas.)
.SsAitaf.— Tropical Insular District !
48. llnMt*.

Sphinx lineala, Fabrlciiis, 8yst. Enl a. InB. Plans, et Lips. p. S41, (1774.)
Sphinx daacut. Cramer, Eiot Vol. 2, p. 41, pi. 124, fig. D. (1779.)
l^hinx lineaia, Smith. Abb. A 8m., Ins. Oa. p. 77, pi. 39. (1707.)
Sphira: lineata, Donovan, "parts, pi, 204, fie. 1.'' (1J97.)
DeiUphUa daucae, Btephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. Vol. I, p. 12«. (1821!.)
DeiUph!la daucus. Wood. Ind. Ent. p. 248, pi. 53. fig, 27. (1839.)
Deiltphila lineala, Harris, Cat. N. A. Bph. Sill. Jour. p. 304 (K4). (183».)
Dtilephila daacut, Walker. C. S. M. Lep. part 8, p. 171. (1856.)
Deil^hila UiKata, Clem., Byn. N. A. 8. Jour. A. N. S. Phil. p. 143. (1849.)
Dtilephila litieata, Morris, Sya. N. A. Lep, Bm. Ins. p. 164. (1862.)
DeUephUa lineafa, Harris, Ina. luj. Vag. new ed. p. 32S. (1863.)
Deiiephila daucua. H-S.. Corr. Blatt. p. 58 (22). (1885.)
DtiU^kUa lineata, Grote, Proc. E. B. Pbil. Vol. 4, d. 31». (18S5.)
DeUephUa lin^ia, Oeate, Notes Cub. 8ph. Proc, E:a Phil, Vol. 5, p. 48 (JH),
(1K65,)
Habitat. — Atlantic, Western, Central and Tropical Insular Diatricta.

PHILA1IPELD8, Harris.
40. vitU.

, Meritin, Ids. Sur

», Linn., Mus.

X vitis, Linn., Byst. Nat. p. 801, No. 16. (1787.)

hinr vitig, Drury, Eiot. Vol. 1, p. BO, pi. 28, fig. 1. (1770.)

■-■ '--t, Fabncius, BysL Ent. b. Ids. Plans, et. Lipa. p. 642. (1776.)

1, W. v.. Frontispieces, p. 47. (1776.)
■iaiut, Sulzer, Able. Gesch. Ina. p. 151, pi. ',
t, Fabrioiue, 8p. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 147. [1781

irfaeciatat, Sulzer, Ab^. Gesch. Ina. p. 151, pi. 20, fig. 1, (17TA,)
«.)

Dapo Jusiieua, HUbner, Samra. Eiot. Bohm. Lep. 2, 8ph. 3, Leg
Pall. 1. (1806—1824.)
oojitssieaiE, Hubner, Vers. Bchm. p. 137, (1816.)

■i, Weetw. Drury, VoL 1, p. S4, pi, 28, fig, 1, (1837,)

Sphinx

^aovGoOt^lc

1865.] 157

Fhilampettu viHe, Harris, Cat. N. A. Bph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 38, p. 2Sft (IB). (1839.)
Fkilampeluijuftietu^, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. pt. B, p. 177. (18SB.)
Philampelta Kiiis, Burmejater, 8ph. Brnx. p. 3. (18a6.)
Fhilampelua vilia, Clem., (larva) Byn. N. A. Bph. Jour. A. N. B. Phil. p. 198.

(1859.)
PhUamptlw juMieaa, Clom., (imago) Syn. N. A. Bph. Jour. A. N. S. Phil. p.

157. (1869.)
Philampeliutjiiseie«a, Morris, Bvn. N. A. Lep. Sm. Ins. p. ISO. (1859.)
Philampelus/aJtfiaivs, H-B., Corr. Blatt, p. S8 (22). (1865.)
Ph^mpetui vilia, Grote, Notes Cub. Bph. Proc. E. B. Phil. pp. 58 (20), 83 (51).

(1885.)
Habiiat. — Atl&nttc and Tropical lusulitr Districts!

61. liniMl.

aiAina vitie, Cramer, Eiot. Vol. 3, pi. 268, fig. B. (1782.)

Not Sp/iinx vitia, Linn., Merian, etc.

DuBo vitin, Hubner, Veri. 8ehm. p. 13T. (1818.)

Phllamptlax vilU, Walker, C. B. M. pt. 8, p. 179. (1848.)

Philampeiug viiia, Clem., (imago) Syn. N. A. Bph. Jour. A. N. B. Phil. p. 168.

(1854.)
PkilarapeluJ! vii\i, Morris, Byn, N. A. Lep. 8m. Ina. p. 179. (1862.)
PhOampeluii vitin, H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. 58 (22). (1865.)
PMomDc/iu/agdalui, Grate, Nol«B Cub. Bph. Proc. E. S. Phil. pp. 59 (27), 81

(52). (1865.)
PhOampelua Linnei, Grote A Robinaon, pi. 3, fig. 3 J . (1863.)
Kabiiat-~At]&Dtic and Tropical Insular Districts !
52. bombaekluift.

Philampelua Ilambecliiana, Har
SoMtat---'' St. Thomaa, W. !■■'

5.1. ■trennv*.

Ourrvampa airenaa, Mfa^tries, En. Corp. An. Mug. Ac. 6ci. Petr. Ins. Lep.

2, p. 1.12, pi. 12, fig. 3. (1857.)
PhilampeluggirenuitSfQiole, Notes Cub. Bph. Proc. E. S. Phil. p. 60 (28). (1865.)
ffabitat—" Hsyti." (M^n^tri^s.)

54. Ijbmh.

m, Cramer, Eiot Vol. 1, p. 88, pi. 55, flf. A. (1779.)

.. „..^..-_ n ..„.^ =.L_ T.., f^g .. , .__

PholM liciion, Hubner, Bsmm. Exot. Schm, Lep. f, Bph. 3, Leg. 2, Eum. d,
EI. 2. (i™6~IH2' •

" ■ " rz. Schm. p. 134. (1816.)

8, p. 175. (1856.)

Pholxa limon, Hubner, Vers. Schm. p. 134. (1816.)
Philampelua gaiellitia, (partira?) Walker. C. B, M. Lep.pt.
Not Sphinr satellitia, Linn., Drurj, Harris.

PMIampelus gatelHtia, Burin., Bph. I . , ,

Philampelui mieUitia, H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. 147. (1883.)
Philampdui aaUllitia, H-8„ Con. Blatt. p. 58 (12), (1865.)
Philampelus lyeaon, Grote, Noles Cub Bph, pp. 60 (28), 81 (52). (1865.)
Phitampelia lyeaon, Qrote and Robinnon, pi, 3, fig. 4. (1865.)
.HoUfai— Tropical Insular District!

55. latallitia.

Spiiarsaffifida, Linn., "Mant. Vol. l.p, 639."

^kinx tateUitia, Drury, Eiot. Vol. 1, p. 63, pi. 2B, figs. 1, 2. (1770.)

Spkmx saltllitia. Fabnciua, Syst. Ent. a Ins, Flens, et. Lips. p. 612, (I7I5.)

Sp*tfu-«ate/H(ia. Fabr.,Bp. Ins Vol, 2, p. 118. (1781.)

Sphinr aatellifiii, Fabr., Mant. Ins, Vol. 2, p. 96. (1787.)

^hinr mteUilia. Fabr., Ent. Syat. Vol. 3. p. 370. (I7B3-)

Saphm PntidOTUi, HUbncr. Samm. Ezot. Bch. Lep. 2, Bph. 3, Leg. 2, Eum. A,

Ble. 2. (1808—1821.)
Sphinx aalellilia, Westw. Dmry, Vol. 1, p, 57, pi, 29, fig, 1, 2. (1837,)
Philastpelia aatellitia, Harris, Cat. N. A, 8ph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 36, p. 299 (IB)

(1839.)

^aovGoOt^lc

15S [November

Fhilamptlut Pandorys, Valker, C. B. H. Lep. part 8, p. 1T1. (18511.)
Philampelua aafelliHa, ClemenB, (deeorip. imag.) 8yn. N. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. 8,

Pbil. p. IM. (IftSB.)
I^Uampelas mttUitia, Morris, (descrip. imag.) Syn. N. A. Lep. Sm, Ins. p.

176. (1382.)
Philampelat mtdlitia. Hbjtib, Ina. Inj. Veg. newed.p. 325, pi. S.fig. 2. (Iftfl.l.l
FhUampeiua aaieltilia, Qrote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proc. E. S. Pbil. pp. 61 (2»), 84

(52). (isas.)
Habitat.— Xtiaalie District I

intor, Fabr., Mant, Vol. 2, p. 97. (l!8T.)
Sphinx Crantor, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Vol. 3, p. 375. (1793.)
Sphinx Crantor, Smitb, Abb. A 8m., Ina. Ga. p. 81. pi. 41. ( 1797.)
PholM Grantor, Habner, Ven. Sohm, p. 134. ((ISia.)
Sphinx acKemon. Weetw. Drury, Vol. 2, p. 55, d1. 29. fig. 1. (1837.)
Philampelua Arhemoa, Harris, Cat S. A, Bph.'BJll. Jour. p. SOU (20). {1S3B.)
Philam}Klu3A':henon,Vlit]k6r,C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 1 74. (185A.)
Phil-^mpi!^ Arhemvn. "' - °— " ' " ' - ■ -* ° "'-^' - "'
PhilanptlM Arhemon,
Phitamptlas A';heai<m,

Habitat— hi\s.aVic Dieti

■Sph.J.
PkilampelM tj/phm, Morrie, 8yn. N. A. Lap. Bin. Idb. p. ITS. (1862.)
Habitat.— Tropical Continental Diatriot!

58. labraua-

Sphttir labru»ax, Linn., Mus. Lud. Clr. p. 3b2. (!7B4.)

Sphinx /abrusca, Cramer, Eiot. Vol. 2, p. 133, pi. 184. fig. A. (1779.)

^hiax labraaoE. Fabr. 8p. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 152. (1781.)

Sphtnr hbraaco!, Fabr,, Mant. Ina. Vol. 2, p. 98. (1787.)

Sphinx tabrutca. Fabr., Eot. 8yat. Vol. 3, p. 377. (1793.)

Sphinx labrusca, Clerek, '' loon. pi. 47, fig. 3."

Eamorpha elegana Labruaae. HLtbner, Samra. Sxot. Bch. Lep. 2, Sph. 3, Leg.

2. Enm. A. Ela. a. ( l80fV— 1824.)
Arqeua labraaax, Hubner, Van. Sehm. p. 134. (1816.)
FhdampeliLS labratca, Walker, C. B. M. Lap. part 8, p, 178. (1856.)
PkUampelua labrusca, Burmeister, Sph. Braz. p. 2. |185B.)
Phtlaoipetai labruaae, Clem., Byo. S. A. Bph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 156. (1859.)
Fkilampelat labruacce. Morris. Syn. N. A, Lep. 8ni. Ins. p. 178. (1862.)
PhUampelaa labratac, H-3., Corr. Blatt. p. 58 (22). (1865.)
Philampelua /oirusra, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proo. E. 8. Phil. p. 62 (30). (1865.)
.ffoiitat.— Tropical Insular District!

FACHTLIA, Boisduval.

59. flam.

Sokinxykut, Linn..

«:_rfi;«fl, Linn., Syst. Nat. p
fiaut, Clerok, " Icon. pi.
g=u», Drury, Exot. Vol.

l!:u^, Fabnciua, 8yst. Ent.'s. Ids'. Flens.'et. Lipa. p. 5
" I, Fahricius, 8p. Ins. Vul. 2, p. 145. (1781.)

I, Cramer, Exot. Vol. 3, p. 88. pi. 24«, fig. E. (1782.)
- "•--■■-■- "-1. Syst. p. 366. (1793.)

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Pachgliajicvi, Walker, (pnrtim) C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 189. (ISGd.)
DeikphUaJmii, Burm., Sph. Braz. p. 5. (1858.)

Chierorampa Cravteri, M^oi^triSa, En. An. Acad. Petr. Lep. pt. 2, p. 133. (18S7.)
PaekyiiaficM. Clem., 8yn. H. A, 8ph. Jour. A. N. B. Phil. p. 158. (186».)
Pachylia_ficxu, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. 8m. Ins. p. ISI. (Igfi2.)
Paehyliajitut. H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 58 (22). (1885.)

Paekyliafiewi, Grote, Notes Cub. 8ph. Proc. E.8, Phil. Vol. S, p. 62 (30). (1866.)
Rabilat---Trop\cB,l InsuUr DiaCrict!

. inonuita.

Sphinr fimn. Cramer, Eiot. Vol. i, p. 216, pi. 394, fig, D. (1782.)

Hot Sphini fims. Linn., etc

Charecampajkiai, MSn^trl^B, En. An. Acad. Petr. Lep, pt. 2, p. 133. (18ST.)

PaeJiytia momofn, Clem., Syn. N. A. Sph. Jour. A. H. B. Phil. p. 158. (1859.)

i\B-Ay«a.Bo™a(a, Morris, Syn.N. A. Lep. fi ' "" ■"

Fachulitt incraaia, Grote, Notes Cub. Bph. Pi
[IS65.)
iTaiital— Tropical Insular District!

Fackylia r6ii"Ben», Welker, C. B. M. part 8, p. 190. (1856.)
FackyliaTesamens, Clem., Byn. H. A, 8ph, Jour.A. H. 8. Phil. p. 159. (ISSB.)
Pachylia TesuBums. Morris, Syn. N, A. Lep. Sm, Ins, p, 183, (1862.)
PathyliB retam^a, H-S,, Corr, Blatt, p. 68 (22), (1865,)
FrKlu/lia raumena, Grola, Notes Cub. Sph. Proc. E. 8. Phil. Vol. 6, p. 63 (31).

iToftifat.— Tropical Insular District!

Pachylia inconxpicaa, Walker, C. B. M, part 8, p. 180. (1868.)
Pachylia inconspiaia, Clem,, 8vn. N. A. 8. Jour. A, K. 6. Phil. p. 160. (1859.)
Pachylia inconxpicva. Morris, Syn. N. A, Lep. 6m. Ins. p. 183. (1862.)
ffa4t(o[,— "Jamaica," (Walker.)

AHBULTX„ Boiedaval.
S3. g«snM«B«.

SphinTgannaaois, 8toll Sup. Cram. Exot. pt G, p.I5T, pi. 35, figg. 3—3 B. (179U.)
Amplyptems ganascua, Uubner. Verz. 8chm, p. 133. (1816.)
An^ulyi janosciw, Wfllker, C, B, M. part 8, Lep. p. 121. (1856.)
Ambalyr gannaacyia. Burmeieter, Bph. Braz. p. 15. (1856,)
ilmiu/ya-jaiMMCUB, Clem., Syn, N. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. 8. PhiL p. 153. (1859-)
Ambulyr gapaaaif, Morris. Syn, N. A. Lep. Sm. Ina. p. 183. (1862.)
Ambulyj: gatuacwi, H-B., Corr, Blatt. p, 57 (21). (186S.)

Anbalyx ganoacus, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proc. E. S, Phil. Vol. 5, p. 84 (32).
(ISfla.)
BbWtei,— Tropical Insular District I
M. itrlgllii.

ir atrigilia, Linn., "Mant. Vol. 1, p. 538."
IT strigilis, Drury, Eiot. Vol, 1, p. 82, pi, 28. fig. i. (1770.)
la- strigilis. Fabricius, Syat. Ent. B. Ins. Plena, et Lips, p, 539, (1775.)
- ^Mgilia. Fabr., Sp. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 144. (1781,)

.. _„.,. T,__. .„_, „ _ ,,_p|^ jyg ,,

3, p. 364.

L (1818.)
ury. Vol. 1,'p. 57, pi. 28, fig. 4. (1837.)

" ^ 21. (18S6.) .

(1866.)

Jin6u&i*(r&i/«. Clem., Syn. N. A, Sph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 15!. (1859.)
ATt^vlyxttngilit,KnniB, Byn. N. A. Lep. Bm. Ins. p. 175. (18"" '
AiAulyr alrigilis, II-8., C^rr, Blatt. p, 57 (21), ( 1866.)

(1862.)

tnbulyr itrifilia. Walker, C. B, M, part 8, p. 121. (If
mbw/jfT utrigilia, Burmeister, Sph, Braz. p. 14. (1866,
mba^x Hr&ilui. Clem., Syn. S. A, Sph. Jour. A. N. S

_!_., J .1.-- u :. i — w > t — o„ i_, _ 11^ (iHCi

hil. p. 64 (3;

ov Goot^ Ic

Ambulyx airl^ia, Grote, Notes Cub, Sph. Proc. E. S. Phil. p. 64 (32), (1866.)
SiAitat. — Tropical Insular District!

[November

Tribe, SmerinthtT,

BHESIHTHUS, Latr«
69. juuiilesiLili.

Sphinx ocellatvt Jamt
SmerinUiiu Jamaicerutia, \
ffaiiiot.— "Jamaica." (Drurj.)

60. gsmiilBtiLl.

Smerinlliua geminatut, Bftj, Am. Ent Vol. 1, p. 25, pi. 12. (1S24.)
SmerintKus geminata, Harr., Cat. N. A. 8. Sill. Jour. Vol. 36, p. 2B1 (11). (183B.)
Smennthut geminatus. Walker, C. B. M. part 8, p. 248. (1856.) 7
ameritUhm getninatus. Ba;, Am. Eot. Lee. Ed. p. 25, pi. 12. (1859.)
Smerinliiu ge>ninatu>, ClemeoB, (deacrip. imago) Bvn. N. A. Spb. Jour. A. N.

8. Phil, p, 1S3. (I8&9.I
Smerinihva geminalui, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. Sm. Ins. p. 210. (1882.)
£oitea(.— Atlantic District!

6'. aetiiii.

ffiiAtfaf.— Atlantic District!
6S. opthalminna.

SmerinlAus opthalmicvs, Boisd., Am. 8oc. Ent, Pr. t. 3, Sieme Ser. 32.
S-nerinthua tpihalmicua, Clem., Syn. N. A. 8. Jour- A. N. 8. Phil. p. 194. (186S.)
Siaennth-ui opihalmicus, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. 8m. Infl. p. 211. (1S82.)
ifaftitaf.— Western Diatrict!
69. paToniual.

Faoniat panmina, Geyer, Zatr. Sth Hund. p. 12, figs. 835, 836. (1837.)
Snerinthus panomnua, Grote t RobiaaoQ. (1865.)
Habitat.—" Penoaylvftnia." (Geyer.)

Sphinr. eicaxata. Smith, Abb. k 8m., Ins. Qa. Vol. 1, p. 49, pi. 25. (179r.)
Paonias erOECatia, Hubner, Vers. 3chm. p. 142. (1816.)

BvKrinthta erciratia, Harris, C. N. A. 8. 3ill. Jour. Vol. 36, p. 290 (10). (183S.)
Saierinthua exceecatuK. Walker, 0. B. M. Lep. parts, p. 246. (1856.)
amerinthnt emxecatus, Clem., 8vn. N. A. 8uh. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 182. (1859.)
Smerinihus excteeaita, Morria.'&yn. N. A. Lep. 8m. In a. p. 208. (1862.)
Smerinthut execeeata, Harris, Ins. In). Veg. new ed. p. 327, fig. 155. (1885.)
Babilat—Atlaotie District!

Spkiax Myops, Smith, Abb. A 8m., Ina. Ga. Vol. 1, p. 51, pi. 26. (179T.)
Faoniaa Myopa, HUbner, Verz. 8ohm. p. 142. (1818.)
Smerinthua romeccaTum, Boisduval. 8p. Gen. pi. 16, fig. 4. (1836.)
Smerinthus Msopi, Harris, C. N. A. Sph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 3fl, p. 291 (11). (1839.)
Smerinthua Myopa, Walker, C. B. M. Lep, part 8, p. 245. (1856.)
Smerinthas Myope, Clem., Syn. N. A. Spli. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 181. (185S.)
SmerinthM Myops, Morria, Syn. N. A, Lep. Sm. Ins, p. 207. ( 1862.)
amerinOna Myopa, Harris, Ins, Inj, Veg. new ed. p. 32a (1865.)
Habitat. — Atlantic District!
72. •■tyloa. ,

Sphinx Aatylua, Drury, Eiot. Vol. 2, p. 45, pi. 26, fij, 2, (IJT3.)
apkinx lo, Boisduval, " GuSr, Icon, R^go. Aoim. Ins. pi, SI."
Bn\erinthua integerrima, Harris, " CaU Ins. Mass. Hitch. Eep. Geol,"
SiMHniAujiib, Boiad., Griff. *Pidg. CuTier, Vol. 2, pi. 8. Ha. 4. (I83S,)
SmerintAas lo, Wilaan, Treat. Ent. Brit. Eocyc. p. 246, pi. 236, lig. 5. (1835.)

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Snierin/Jius Aitf/laa,

Smerinthus Aatylut, Harris, Cat. S. A. Sph. Sill. Jour.

(]839.)
Smerinihun Aietylux, Wiilter, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. Hi. (18S8.)

„. .... .. . ... , ^ Qjjj K.A.8pk.'- • " " ■-■

9, Byn. N. A, Lep

Smerinthua mmUatus, Wallier, C. B, M. Lep. p»rt"8,
5menn(*ua modesta Clem,, Syn. N, A. Sph. Jour. A.^. 8. Phil. p. 183. (1859.)
StaerintAus mixleata, Morris, Sjd. N. A. Lep. 8m. Ins. p. ZIO, (18fl2.)
ffoiita^— Atlantic District!

CEE880HIA, Grote 4: fiobinson.
74. JDgUndis.

Stkinx ivglandU, Smith, Ahb. 4 Sm., InB. Ga. Vol. 1, p. 57, pi. S». (l"Br.)
•aorpka dtniaia J-uglandia, Hllbner, Samm. Eiot Bohm. Vol. 1, Lep. 2, Sph,
3, Leg. 4, Am. B, Den, b. (IfiOB— 1824,)
I^lyptichus jvglandis, HUbner, Vera. Schm, p. 141. <18ie.)
5in«rin(Aus jv^/onifu, Harris, Cat. M. A. Bph. Bill. Jour. Vol. 3fl, p. SU2 (12).

{183H.)
Smerinthuijugland-if, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p, 24T, (18&B.)
SmeHnthutjvglandit. Clera,, Syn, N, A. Sph. Jour, A. H, 8. Phil. p. 185. (U'.A]
SaKrmlhuiJiiglandia, Morris, Syn, N, A. Lep. 8m. Ins. p. 213. (18A2,)
SnerinlhiuJuglandU, Harris, Ins. Inj, Veg, new ed. p. B28. (1865.)
Creaionia juglandi), Gmte A Kobinson. (1885.)
.Sabitot.— Atlantic Dietrict !

Tribe, SphingiTii.

FBXTIDOSFHIHZ. Burmeister.
76. tatrio.

&jAine(«ino, Linn., "Man t. Vol. l,p. 538,"

«....,.._ ...._■. 17.1.-: .:..g^ gygL £„( g^ jq,^ Flens. sL Lipa. p. 540. (1775,)

io, Fabr., 8p. Ins, Vol, 2. p. U5. (17
dmbal. Cramer. EioL Vol, 3, p. 90, pi.
&Jilnx teirio, Fabr., Mant. Vol. 2, p. 98. (1787.)

lAiBE liasdnibal. Cramer. EioL VoL 3, p. 90, pi. 248, fig. F. (1782.)

■io, Pabr,, Ent. Syst. Vol. 3. p. 36«. (1793.)
SylaicM Hatdrubat, Hubner, Verz. Bohm. p. 1.19. (IB18.)
Sphinj- Aidrvbal, Poey, Cent, Lep. Cuba, (1832.)
Macraiila /Tasdrubal, Walker, C. B. M. part 8, p. 202. (1856.)
&>hinxf tttrio. Walker, C. B. M. part 8, p. 283. (1858.)
Pamdoiphinx tetrio, Burmeister, Bph. Brai. p. 8. (IS5S.)
MacrosUa HatdTubai. Clem., Bjn. S. A, Sph, Jour. A, N. S. Phil, p. 181. (1869.)
Macrosila Hradrubnt. Morris, Syn, N, A. Lep, 8m. Ins. p. 184. (1882.)
Maeros:la Asdrubal. H-S., Corr. Blatt, p. 59 (23). (18660
Pseudotphinx letrio, Grote. NoteaCub. Bph. Proc. E. B. Phil. p. 84 (32). (1886.)
fla6iia(,— Tropical Insular District!

AKFHOim, Poey.
76. antnai.

X Anticut, Drury, Exot. Vol. 2, p. 13, pi. 25, fig. 2. (1773.)
...X JairopKce, Fabrioius, Bp. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 143. (1781.)
inx Medor. Cramer, E^ot. Vol. 4, p, 215, pi, 394, fig. A. (1782.)
Aiftina; Jatrophit, Fabrioius, Ent, Syst. p, 382, (1793.)
CocyHuf Jatropha, HUbner, Vera, Bchm. p. 140. (IB 8.)
Amphoayx Anbeug, Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba, Decade 1. (1832.)
apkini Anttrui, Westw, Drury, Vol. 2, p. 47, pi. 25, fig. 2.
Ifacroiila Antamt. (partial) Walker, C. B. M. part 8, p. 200. (18S9.)
Sphiar Jalropka, Burmeister, Sph. Braz, p. 9. (tSf>8.;

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ifaa-oailii Anbeua, (p&rlim) Clem., 9yn. N. A. 9ph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil, p. 162.

(ISaB.)
HaCTOiila Ant/xus, (nartim) Morris. Syn. N.A. Lep. 8m. Ins. p. 186. (18B2.)
MaCToaila Anlhau», H-8., Corr. Blalt. p. 59 (23). (IBB5.)

Ampkonyx Anlaan. Orote. Notes Cub. Sph. Proo. E, 8.P!i[l.p.66 (34). (18 b.)
Habitat.— Trvjiicai Inauldr Diatriotl

;t. dnponehel.

Amphonyx Duponc/al, Poey, Cent. Lepid. Cuba. (1832.)

Macnaila Antaeaa, (partirn) Walker, C. B. M. part S, Lep. p. 200. (1N5e.)

Not SphiTix Antceiu, Oiury, etc.

Jiacronia Antcaa, (partiin) Clera,, Syn. N. A, Sph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 1152.

(ISoM.)
Man-otila Antaut. (partim) Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. 9m, las. p. 188. (1862.)
JIaCTOMla dupoAskel, H-8„ Corr. Blalt. p. ft» (23). (1BB&.)
.diBpAo7H/j:rfHponcAe/,GroUi, NotesCub. Sph. Pr, E. 8. Phit.p.fiT (3»). (186S.)
Habiiat. — Tropical Insular District!

Pklegethontiat clutntiua, Hilbner, .Vsr
Am^rmyx elvtntiua, Poey, Cent. Lepi

. MaerofOa dutntiua, Walker, C. R M. , ^ ,_ ,

JKiicrow/a ciueniiiM, Clem.,SyD. N. A.8ph, Jour. A. N. 9. Phil. p. 163. (18i
Maeronla etttenliua, Morris. 8yn. N. A. 8ph. Bm. Ins, p. 18S. (1882.)
Maer(Hdln cluetUiitt, H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. SB (2.1). (18S5.)
Araidumvx duiBtma, Grole, Notes Cub. Bpb. Proc. E. 8. Phil. Vol. ■■,rtB7 tz:'i
(186.'i.) '

iTaftiioi.— " Cuba." (Poey, H-9.)

KACEOq^LA, Boisduval, emend. Grote.

cius, SvBt. Ent. a. Ins. Flens. et. Lips, p. MO. (1T75 )
r. Ab. Gesoh. Ins. pi. 20, tig. 2. (1775 )
Sp. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 145. (1781.)

It. p. 21, pi. 301, fig. A. (1782.)
X Tuatiaa, Fab., Mant. Ins. Vol 2. p. 95. (1787.)
X ruitiea. Fab., Ent. Syst. Vol. 3. p. 386. (17B3.)

jt chianantki. Smith, Abb. t 8m., Ins. Ga. Vol. I, p. 67, pi. 34. (17B7.)
Coiytiiii nuUca, Hubner, 9amm. EioL 8chm. Lep. 2, 8ph. 3, Lea. 4. Hand

B, Pond. 2. (1806—18.4.) f ' B .

CocyUtit Tuaiiea, HUbner, Verz. Schm. p. 140. (1810.)
MaerosUa mttica, Walker, C. B. M. part 8, p. 1B». (1856.)
Proioparce mstiea, Burmeister. 8ph. Bras. p. 7. (1856.)
IdaCToaila raetict, Clem., 8yn, N.A. Bph. Jour.A. N. 8. Phil. p. 163. (ISiO.)
Macrosila rualica. Morris, 8yn. S. A. Lep, Sin. Ins. p, 187. (1802 )
Sphinx Tuaiiea, H-8., Corr. Blatt. p. 69 (23). (186S.)

Sphinx matica, Qrote, Notes Cub. 8ph. Proo. E. 8. Phil. p. 68 (36). (1865.)
H<d/itat — Atlantic and Tropical Insalar Districts I

80. ootini.

Sphinx oeftiw, Klug. Neue- 8chm. Heft. 1, p. 4, pi. 3, fig. 2. (1836.)
Jkacronla inatita, Clem., Syn, N, A. 8ph. Jour. A N. 8. Phil. p. 1B4. ((359.)
JUacrosila inetita, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. Ins. 8m. Ins. p. 1 87. (1862.)
Maaroaila ochua, Grote, Notes Cub. 8ph. Proo. E. 8. Phil. p. 68 (36). (1885.)
HaJitai.—" Mexico," (Klug.) " Honduras," (Clemens.)

. :, p. .t*6. (1764.)
I, Drury. III. Exot. Ins. Vol. I, p, 52. pi. 25, fle. 1. (1770 )

If. 1. (i;

.39. (177

BiGooi^le

1865]

r earolina, Pabr., Mant. Ins, Vol. 2, p. U. (1787.)
'na, Fabr., Ent. Byst. Vol. 3, p. 3fi.1. (17B3.)

- ■ ■ ■ ■ ■d. i Bm,, Ins. 6a, Vol. 1, p. 65, pi. 33. (1787.)

ifyhitu Carolina, Smith, Abb. i ,,.,-,-,

Manduca o6*ruro tarolitia. Hiibner, Samm. Esot. Sohm. Lep. 2, Sph. 3, Leg.

3, Obs. b, Maud. B. (18UI1— 1824.)
Phlegethontiun Carolina, Hobner, Verz. 8chm. p. 140. (1816.)
Sph-inx Carolina. Stepheng. 111. BriL Ent. HnusC. Vol. 1, p. IIS. (1S28.)
Sphinx Carolina, Weatw, Drury, Vol. I, p. 47, pi. 25, fig. 1. (1837.)
Sphinx carqtina. Wood, Ind. Ent. p. 246, ill. 53, fig. 22. (1839.)
Sphinx Carolina, Karris. Cat. X. A. Sph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 36, p. 2B4 (14). (1839.)
SphinT Carolina, Walker, C. B. M. part fi, Lep, p 216. (18 6.)
Marrasila Carolina, Clem., Sya. N. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. S. Phil. p. 165. (]85fl.)
ifacronila Carolina. Morris, S;n. N. A. Lep. Sm. Ins. p. ISU. (1862.)
Sphinx Carolina, Harris. Ins. Inj. Veg. new ed. p. 322, fig. 145—147. (1883.)
Sphinx Carolina, H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 59 (2'). (ra65.]

Sphinx Carolina, Grote, Hotea Cub. So. Pr. E, 3. Phil. Vol. 5, p. 69 (37). (1SB5.)
.Ha6fIaf.~Atl antic and Tropical Insular Districts I

82. qainqnenuiiralato.

'* Sphinx quinquemaculatvs, Haworth." (Autb. Stephens.)

SpAiTw cai-o/ina, Donovan, " part 1 1, plate 36!." ( lti04,)

Phlegelhontias Celeas, Hubner, fiamm. Exut. Sohm. Lep. 2, Sph. 3, Leg. 4,

Maud. B, Ponrt. S. (1806— lfi24.)
Sphinx quinqueTiiaculatut, Stephena, 111. Biit. Ent. Haust. VoL 1, p. 119. (1 FI28.)
^hinx quinquemaculalus. Wood, Ind. Eut. p. 246. pi. 53, fig. 23. (1839.)
^hinr ^in<[uemactilala. Walker, C. B. M. part 8, lep. p. 217. (1856.)
Macrosila guingaemaculata, Clemens, 8yn. N. A, Sph. Jour. A. N. S. Phil. p.

166. (1869.)
Uaeroiila guinquemaeulata, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. Sm. Ins. p. 190. (1BK2.|
Sphinx quinquemaculatiui, Harris, Ins. Inj. Veg. new ed. p. 322, fig. 142—144.

(186.?.)
Sphinx qitinquemaculaia. Fitch, Xintb Report.pl. 4, lig. I. (1865.)
ifaSitaf.- Atlantic District I

83. Bin^ata.

Sphinx convolauli. Drury, Exot. Vol. 1, p. 54, pi. 25, fig. 4. (1770.)

Not Sphinx convolmli, tinntens, (Europe).

Sphinx ciagvlata, Fabricius, SysL Ent. a. Ins. Plena, et. Lips. p. 545. (1775.)

Sphinx cifyulata. Fabricius. Sp. Ins. Vol. 2, p. \bl. (1781.)

Sphinx conoolvuli, Cramer. Exot. Vol. 3, p. 55, pi. 225, fig. D. (1782.)

Sphini dngKlata. Fabricius, Mant. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 97. (178T.)

Sphini- cingtLlata. Fabricius, Ent. Svst. p, 375. (1793.)

SphittT ronvolvull, Smith, Abb. 4 Bm. Ins. Ga. Vol. 1, p. S3, pi. 32. (1797.)

Sphinx Drurm'. Donovan, " Brit. Ina. p. U. pi. 469." (1810.)

Aarius cingulatua, Hubaer, Samm. Exot. Bchm. Lep. 2, Sph. 3, Leg. 4, Mand.

B, Pond 4. (1806— M24,)
Agriua eingulatun, HUbner, Vera. Sohm. p. 140. (1816.)
"-■ r Drvrta, StPphena. III. Brit. Ent. Hauat. Vol. 1, p. 126. (1828.)
■r. cingulata. West. Drury, Vol. 1, p. 49. pi. 25, fig. 4. (1837.)
1^ Drar/ei. Wood, Ind. Ent. p. 246, pi. 5.3, fig. 24. 118.39.)
■x cliigulata, Harr., Cat. N. A. Sph. Bill. Jour. Vol. 36, p. 349 (13). (1839.)
<z cingixlata, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 215. (1856.)
opainr eingulala, Burmeiater, Sph, Sraz. p. 12. (1856,]
Haermila cinguiala, Clem.. Byn. N. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 164. (185B.)
Macroiila cingutata. Morris, Byn. N. A. Lep. Bm, Ina, p. 188. (1862.)
5pAinirnnffH/ate,Grote.NotesCub.Sph,Pr.E.S.Phil.Vol.5,p.69(37). (1866.)
S'aJnfaf.— Atlantic and Tropical Insular Districts!

DILUDI&, Grote k Robinaon..

I. brontai.

X Brontes, Drury, Eiot. Vol. 2, p. 52, pi. 29, flg. 4 (1773.)
X Bi-ontes, Westw. Drury, Vol. 2, p. 56, pi. 2B. fig. 4. (1S37.)
X ironies, H-S., Corr. Blatt. p. 59 (23). (1865.J

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^kinx Brontes, Grotfl, Notes Cub, Sph. Pr, E. S. Phil. Vol. 5, r

%. 5. (1865.)
Diludia BronUa, GroM », Robinson. (186S.)
Son alioram.
fla5iJa(.— Tropicftl Insular District!

X Floreatan, Cramer, Eiot. Vol. 4, p. 216, pi. 384. fig. B. (17B2.)
■'-« Forettan, Hobner, Vera. Bchiu. p. 140. (1816.)

^feAinz Florcstan, Burmeister, BtpIi. Braz. p. 10. (1866.)

JBacrojiftiForMfan, Clem., Byn. N.A, Bph.Jour.A. N. 8, Phil. p. 1(17. (18B5.)
MiKroiHa Forestan, Morris, Byn. N. A. Lep. 8m. Ins. p. IBl. (1862.)
Diludia FloreHan, Grola A Robinson. (1865.)

Mabitat.—" Honduras." (Clemens.)
86. Mlluia.

Hacrotila cotlarit, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 201. (1856.)
MaerasUa coliarit, Clem,, 8yn. N, A, Sph. Jour. A. N. 3, PLil. p. 161, (185fl.)
Maeroiila eo/laris, Morris, Syo. N. A, Lap. 8m. Ina, p, 184, (1862,)
Diludia eotlant, Grute i, Robinson. (18S5.)

flaWtaf.— "Jamaica;" "8t. Domingo." (Walker,)

8TZT0IA, Grots i, RobinsoD.
ST. affliote.

■ Sphinx a.^ie.ta, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Pr. E. S. Phil. p. 71 (39). (1B85,)

Syzyffia afflicta, Grote * Robinson, pi. 3, fig. S, % . (18B&.)
Mabitat Tropicsil Insular District!

DABEMHA, Walker.
SS. rapentinns. .

^hinx Brontes, Boisd., Bp. G^n. pi. 15, fig. 8. (1832.)
Not SpMnx Brontes, Drury, H-8„ Grote.

Macrrmla BnmUat Walker, C. B, M. part 8, p. IBB. (1856.1
Duremma vndaloaa, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8. p. 231. (Igs6.)
Ceratomia repeiUinut, Clem., Syn. N. A. 8ph. Jour. A. N, 8, Phil. p. 180. (185B.)
Ceratemia Tepentinim, Morris, Byn. N. A, Lep, 8m, Ins, p, 206. (1862.)
Ceratomia repentintui, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph, Pr. B, B, Phil, p, 3B (7). (1865.)
Sphinx repentinus, Grote, Notes Cub, Sph, Pr. E, B. Phil. p. 72 (40). (1865.)
Daremiaa repentinut, Grote A Bobinson. (1865.)
.Hiiittai.— Atlantic District I

CEEATOHIA, Harris,

89. UDftLtor.

Agriua Am^atar, Httbner, Samm. Exot. 8chm. Vol. 2, Lep. 2, Bph. 3, Leg. 4,

Maud. B, Pond. 4. (1806—1824,)
CeralOJiiia quadriEOmia, Harris, Cat. N.A. Bph. Bill, Jour. Vol. 38, p. 293 (13).

(183B.)
Ceratomia guadricomia. Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 258. (1856.)
Ceratomia quadricomie, Clemens, Syn. N. A, Sph. Joar, A. N. B. Phil. p. 1 79.

(1859.)
Ceratomia qaadricomie, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. Bra. Ins. p, 205, (IR62,]
Qroeomin {BorfricDrnii, Harris, las, Inj. Veg. new ed. p. 323, fig. 148, (1833.)
Ceratomia Amynfor, Grote k Robinson. (1885.)
.fiaAi'Iat.— Atlantic District I

8PHIKZ, LinnnuB,

90. lanoapliData.

Bphitix leucophcEota, Clem,, Sjn. N. A, Sph. Jour. A. N. 8, Phil, p, 168. (18jB.)
^hinx kucophaata, Morris, Syn, M, A. Lep. Sm. Ins. p, 193, (1862.)
Mabitat.—" Teia«." (Clemens.)

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9L Juminatram.

" " .mm. Boiad.. Griff, i Pidi.Cnvier. Vol.2. Dl. 83. fiir.l. . ,

. (1836.)

Spftiiu; jcwmiBWritm, Boiad., Griff, t Pidg. Cnvier, Vol. 2, pi. 83, fig. 1. (1831)
^Ainxjaminea'nim, ■Wilson, Treat. Ent. in Enojc. Brit. pi. 2S8, fig. ft. (1836.)
^inxjatmineaTvm, Clem., 8ya. N. A. Bph. Jour. A. H. 8. Phil. p. 173. (18. B.)

ixjofminearum, Morris, Byn. H. A. Lep. Sm. Ina. p. 198. (1882.)
Habitat.— "Stv York;" " Pannsjlvanifc" (CIbidbub.)

92. o^eriti.

Letiiia chermi, HUbner, SBOmi. Ezot. Schtn. Vol. 2, Lep. 2, Bph. 3, Leg. 4,
Mand. B, Pond, S, (1806—1824.)

fSphutx dnerea, Harris, Cat. N. A. Bph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 3S, p. 29ft (IS). (1839.)
Sphinx cinerea, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part S, p. 21T. (IB5A.)
■^ kinx cinerea, ClemenB,ern. N. A. 8pE. Jour. A, H. S. Phil. p. 189. (18i1(.)
h,nx einerea, Morris, Byn. N. A, Lep. 8m, Ins. p. 194. (1862.)
Kins cinerea, Harris, Ins. Inj. Veg. new ed. p. 328. (1863.)
hinx eherm, Grota A Bobinaon. (186ft.}
fioiito^— Atlantic District I

93. drapiferanm.
Sphinx drvpifen
Ziethia drupifent
Sphinx drupifen

Sphinx drupi/eranm. Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 318. (1866.)
Sphinx drupiferarum,Cltm.,Sja. S. A. 8. Jour. A. K. 8. Phil. p. 173. (1M9.)
Sphinx dntpiferaram, Morria, Byn- N. A. Lep. Sin. Ina. p. 197. (18e».)
^inx dmpiferanm, Harris, Ins. Inj. Veg, new ed. p. 328, (1883.)
.Hoiifaf,.— Atlantic District!

94. banaa.

Sphinx KalmiiE, Smith, Abb. A 8m.. Ins. Qa. Vol. 1, p. 73, pi. 37. (179T.)

Lelhia Kalnio!, Hubner. Verz. Sehm. p. 141. (1818.)

Sphinx Kaimia, Harris. Cat. N. A. Spb. Sill. Jour. Vol. 3a,p. 295 (1ft). (1S39.)

Sphinx Kalmite, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part H, p. 2ia (1866.)

&ihinx Kaltnia:, Clem., &yn. N. A. 3ph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 171. (1869.)

^hita Kalmia, Mania. Byn- N. A. Lap. 8m. Ins. p. IBS. (I8«2.)

Bft. gordliu.

Sphinx GonfttM, Cramer, Eiot. Vol. 3, p. 91, pi. 247, fig. B. (1782.)
Lethia Oordiut, HUbner, Vera. 8chm. p. 141, 11818.)
Sphinx poecila, 8tephens, 111. Brit Ent. Haast Vol. 1, p. 222. (182B.)
Sphinx Oorditut, Karris, Cat. N. A. Bph. Bill. Jour. Vol. 36, p. 29ft (16). (1839.)
&ihinx poecila. Wood, Ind. Ent. p. 246, pi. &3, fig. 2S. (1B3B.)
&ihinx Qordiiu, Walker. 0. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 21S. (18ft6.)'
^hinx Qordiut, Clem., Sjn. M. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 173. (18ft9.)
^hinx Qordius, Morris, Syn. S. A. Lep. 8m. Ins. p. 198. (1862.)
^)hinx Oordiat, Harria, Ina. Inj. Veg. new ed. p. 328. (1863.)
ffoiifaC— Atlantic District!

, yn. N. A. Sph. Jour. A, If, B. Phil. p. 172. (ieft9.)
^hinx luscilioia, Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. Sm. Ins. p. 197. (1862.)
JToitfnt.— Atlantic District!

97. eremitni.

Agriut eremiue, Hubner, Bamm. Exot. 6chm. Vol. 2, Lep. 2, Sph. 3, Leg. 4,

Mand. S, Pond. 1. 1 1696—1824.)
•SMinzsoriffda, Harris, Cat. X. A. Bph. Bill. Jour Vol. 36. p. 296 (18). (ISSB.)
Sphinx aordida, Walter. C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 219. (1866.)
Sphinx mrdida, Ctera., Sjn. N. A. Bph. Jour. A. N. B. Phil. p. 169. (18GB.)

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BalnlaL—i.iluitic Diitrlet I

OOLBA, Walker.
IS. hylnu.

l^hinx Hylacut, Drury, ExoL Vol. I, p. ii, pi. 28, fig. 3. (1TT3.)
Sp\inx Syiaui. Cramer, Bxot. Vol. 2, p. IB, pi, lOJ, fig, C, (ITT9.)
Sphinx HyUEta, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. Vol, 2, p. 14». (1781.)
''-'■■-X Byiam, Fabriciue, Mant. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 97. (1787.)

I fljitem, Fabrioiufl, Ent "~-' " " " "~

arPnm, Smith, Abb. A 8l
Hyloicaa Sylaiu. Huboer, Veri. 6chm. p. 139. (IBte.)
Sphinx Hylieua, Weetw. Drory, Vol. 2, p. iV, pi. 28, fig. 3. (1837.)
Sphinx ByUgM. Harris, CaL N. A.Sph.Bill. Jour. Vol. 3S, p. 296 (IB). (1639.)
Doiha Bylccia, Walker, C. B. M. Lap. part R, p. 230. (1856.)
Dolba Hylaui, Cleio., Svn. K, A. Sph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 178, (1859.)
DoUta Hylmm. Morris. Sya. S. A. Lep. 8m. Ins. p. 203. (1862.)
Sphinx Myites. Harris, Ins. InJ. Yeg. new ed. p. 32S. (1SS3.)
Balntal.—Kaa.atie Diatrict!

ETL0ICU8, Hubner.
09. plsbsU.

Sphinx plebeia. Pabrlcma, Oen. Ina. Kilite, p. 273. (1776.)

thinxpUheia. Fabrioius, Sp. Ins. Vol. 2, p. U6. (1781.)
hinxpUbeia, Fabriciua, Maot. lus. p. 95. (1787.)
Sphinx plebeia, Fabricius, £□!, Syat. p. 367. (1793.)
Sphinx plebeai, ?,>xp^., 111. Brit. Ent. Hauat. Vol. 1, p. 222. (1828.)

fihinx pUbcitt, Harris, Cat. N. A. 8ph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 36, p. 296 (16). (1839.)
ikinx plebeia. Wood, Ind. Ent. p. 246, pi. i3, fig. 27. (1839.)
neeryx plebeia, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 22*. (1858.)
Sphinx piebela, Clemens, Byn. N. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. ITC. (1859.)
^inxpleieia, Morria, Sya. N. A. Lep. Sm. Ina. p. 195. (I8S2.)
Syloicus plOeia, Grote A Robinson. (1886.)
Mabiiat, — Atlantic District t
100. poeji.

Erinnyis Poeyi, Oundlach, USS. Orate, Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat Hist. (ISfiS.)
Hyloicua Poeyi, Qrote, Aon. K. Y. Lye. Nat. Hiflt. (1865.)
Habitat— Tiopieai Insular DiatriatI

Byloimi coniferarum, Ht)bn«r, Vera. Bchm. p. 139. (1818.)
Non alicn-um,
BoSiCat— V Georgia." (Abbot.)

t&, Clemen a.
>, Harria, Cat S. A. Sph. Sill. Jonr. Vol. 36, p. 297 (17

Aneeryx coniferaTum. Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8. p. 221. {18S6.)
ElUma HarriHi, Clem., Syn. JT. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. 8. PhiL p. 188.
EUema Marriai, Morria, 8yn. N. A. Lep Sin. Ina. p. 218. (1882.)
c_... .-, „..^<. ■--, jQj, Veg. new--" " '"'' '"'" ■

Aifat.— Atlantic DUtric

Uf UU, Walker.

lOS. bombyeoldai.

Lapara bombymidea, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 233. (IfiSO.)

Lapara bomlycoidai, Clem., Syn. N. A. 8ph. Jour. A. H. 8. Phil. p. 187. (1859.)

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IXIHKYIS, Hubner.

Erinnyis rimoaa, Grote, NotfiB Cub. Sph. Proc. E. 8. Phil, Vol. 5, p. 73 (41), pi.
2,&g.\.%. (1884.)
Habilat. — Tropical Insular DiBtrict !

I OS. gougrktbUBi.

Erinns/i> conaratulani, Gundlacb, MSS. Grote, Ann. N. T. L;e. Nat. HiaL

(1885.)
Erinnyit congratulani, Grote, Ann. N. T. Lyo. Nat. HiiL (1865.)
foMtat.— Tropical Insular District!

106. Okil

I Ckiiau, Cramer, Exot. Vol. 2, p. 42, pi. 125, fig. F. (1779.)
X CdicM. Fabriciiis, 8p. Ina. Vol. 2, p. 151. (1781.)
X Caicut, Fabricius, Mant. Idb. Vol. 2, p. BT. (1787.)
^hinr Oainaa, FabricLua, Ent. ayat. Vol. 3, p. 375. (17B3.)
Phryrvji CaicUH, HUbner, Vera. Schra. p. 137. (181B,)
Anixryx Caictm, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. 228. (1S5B.)
Anceryx Caicug, riem., Syn. N. A. 8ph. Jour. A. N. 8. Phil. p. 177, (1
Ancayx Qiiatj, Morris, Syo. N. A. Lep. Sm. Ina. p. 203. (1862.)
Erinnwia Caicua. Grote, Notea Cub. 6pti. Proc. E. 8. Phil. Vol. 5, p. V.
(1885.)
ffaiitai.— Tropical Insular District!

107. •U«.
Spkinx Ella, Linn., Mus. Lnd. DIrie. p. 351. (1764.)
Svhitix Ella, Linn., Syat. Nat. p. 800. (1767.)
Spkinx EllB, Drury, Eiot Vol. 1, p. 68, pi. 27, fig. 3. (1T70.)
&>hinx Elh, Pabneius, Byst. Ent. p. 538. "■'■"■ '

fMtix Elh, FabriciuB, Sp. lua. Vol. 2, p. 113. (IT8I.)
Kinx Ello, Cramer, Exot. Vol. 4, p. 24, pi. 301, fig. D.
*.«« Ello, Fabricius, Mant. Ine. Vol. 2, p. 91. (1787.)

Ello, Fabricius, EnL Syst. Vol. 3, p. 362. (1783.)
Erinnyi* Elh. Hilbner, Vera. Bchm. p. 13B. (lalB.)
Sphinx Ello, Westw. Drury, Vol. 1, p. 54, pi. 27, fig. 3. (1837.)
&ikinx Silo. Harris, Cat. N. A. 8ph. Sill. Jour. Vol. 30, p. 2B7 (17), (183,'.)
Anceryx Elh. Wvlker, C, B, M, Lep. part 8, p. 224. (1856.)
Dib/phonata Ello, Burmeiater, Sph, Braz. p. 13. (1856.)

Anceryx Ello. Clemens, Bvn, N, A, Sph, Jour. A. H. 8. Phil. p. 175. (1859.)
Ancayx Ella, Morris. Syn. N. A. Lep. Sm, Ins. p. 200, (1862.)
AneeTyi Elh. H-8, Corr, Blatt, p. 50 (23), (18B5,)

Erinnyia Ello. Grote, Kotes Cub. Sph, Proc. E, B. Phil. Vol. 5, p. 73 [41).
(1MB5.)
S^oiilat.— Atlantic, TropicallQBular and Continental Districts!

^ihinx Alope, Fabricius, Mant Ina, Vol. 2, p. B4. (1787.)

thita Alope, Fabricius, Ent. Svst. Vol. 3. p. 362. (1793.)
-innyts Alope. HUbner, Verz. &chm. p. 130. (1818.)
Jifttni Atape. Westw. Drury, Vol. 1, p. 52, pi. 27. fig. 1. (1837.)
neeryx Alope. Wallier, C, B, M. Lep. part n, p, 224. (1856.)
Dilophanola Alope, BurmeiBter. Sph. Braz, p. 13. (1856.)
Anceryx Alope. Clem., Syn, N. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. 8. PhiL p. 177. (185D.)
Anceryx Alope. Morris. Syn. N. A. Lep. Sin. Ins. p. 202. (1862.)
ATKoyx Alope, H-S.. Corr. Blatt. p. fiu (24]. (1865.)

Erinnyit Alope, Grote, Notes Cub, Sph. Proc. E. B. Phil. Vol. 5, p. 75 («).
(1865.)
fliftitot— Tropical Insular District!

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Erirmyia Utriana, Orote, Kotet Cab. Bph. Proa. E. S. Phil. Vol. 6, p. lb (M),
pi. I, fig. 1. (ISflS.)
Sabiiat. — Tropickl InBular and CoDtineiitsI DiatrioUI

110. CMOtrai.

SpAtnx (EnoiTTU, Cramer, Exot. Vol. 4, p. 22, pi. SOI, fig. C. (1^81.)
Srimtyia (Envtrus, Hdbfiar, Vera. Bchm. p. 139. (1316.)
Aneeryx ^noinu. Walker, C. B. M. Lep. part 8, p. HI. (ISU.)
IHlophonota CEnolnu, Barmeiiter, Bph. Brox. p. U. (ISSfl.)
ATiceryx (Enotrui, Clem., Byn. S. A. Bph. Jour. A. N. S. Phil. p. ITT. (ISS9.)
Aneeryx (Enotrut, Morris, B;n. N. A. Lep. Bm. Ins. p. lOS. (lB6i.)
Erxnnyis (Enatrua, Qrote, Notes Cub. 8ph. Proo. E. 8. Phil. p. TB («), pi. S,
Bg. 3. (IMS.)
^Mlal. — Tropical Inialar Diitrlcl I

111. mcUnekoUoa.

EHimuit melancholica, l3rote, Notes Cab. Bph. Proo. E. S. Phil. Vol. 6, p. TT
(«), pi. 2, fig.i,(tnB<!9.) (laeif)
Aiiii'at.—TrapiDal Insnlar District I

113. paUida.

Erinmit pallida, Orote, Not«i Cab. Sph. Proo E. B. Phil. Vol. S, p. T8 (M),
pi. I, flg. «. (IMS.)
Aofritet— Tropioal Ininlar DlsUicl!

114. Ahimua.

SpAinz obteura, Fabrioius, SjiL Ent. Fleas, et. Lips. p. 538. (ITIS.)

fbAinz abscvra, FabriciuB, Bp. Ine. Vol. 2, p. 142. (1T81.)

ftiiiM oiKura, Fabricias, Haot. Ins, Vol. 2, p. B4. (1T8T.)

Aifttna obncura, Fabrioiua, Ent. Syst. Vol, 3, p. 381. (1783.)

Erinm/ia Stheno, Hilbner, Samm. Eiot. Schrn. Vol. 2, Lep. 2, Bph. 3, Leg. 4,

Mand. A, Lev. 2. {1800—1824.)
Anetryx obaixra, Walker, C. R M. Lep, port 8, p. 220. (185II.)
Anceryx otseura, Clem., Syn. N. A. Bph. Joar. A. N. 8. Phil. p. ITfl. (1868.)
A-nctryx obtcura, Morris, Byn. N. A, Lep. Sm. Ins. p. 301. (1882.)
Erinnyit obncvra, Grote, Notes Cub. 8p. Pr. E. S. Phil, Vol. 5, p. 78 (48). (18IIS.)
floWtat— " West Indies," {Fabricios); "Mexico," (Walker) i "Texas," (Cle-

115. ^ttttluii.

Aneeryx guitularia, Vle-t^^i
Ancayx guttularia, Cletn,, E

Anceiyx gutiularit, Morris, Byo. N, A. Lep. Sm. Ids. p, 202. (1882.)
Arueryx ffutlularU, U-B., Corr. BlatL p. 8U (24). (1885.)
Srinnyis 5u«u(a™, Grote, Notes Cub, Sph. Proc, E. 8. Phil. VoL 6, p. Til (47).
(lB6a,)
Sabiiat. — Tropical Insular Diatriotl

CAmETHU, Qrote.

116. nootniformlt,

(Enoianda noetviformii, Walker, C, B. M, Lep. part B, p. 232. (18M.)
(Bnoaontto noctu^formit.CUra., 8yn. N. A, 8p. Jour. A. N. B, Phil. p. 187. (l8Sfl.)
(Enosanda noctaiformiii, Morris, Syn, N, A, Lep. Stn. Ina. p, 214. (1862.)
(Eauaanda noctu\formU, Grote, Notes Cub. Sph. Proo. E. S. Phil. Vol, i, p. TV

(47,) (1865.)
OniUUiia noctuif<ntitU, Orole, Ann. Lye. Nat. HisL N. T. (1866.)
Sabiiat — Tropical Insular District!

sasiGoOi^le

1865.] 189

AXinOirOTTS, SolidnTftl.
117. Inddni.

ATCiOTiotua Uiddm, SoiBd.,ADn. Boc. Ent. Ft. lidme. Ber. t. IB, p. SID. (1861.)
AreUmatuB ivcidvi. Walker, C. B. M. part S, p. 2fl6. (ISSfl.)
ArcUmoiaa bKidxa, Clem., Byn. K. A. Sph. Jour. A. N. B. Phil. p. IBS (18S9.)
Arcionotut lucidua, Harris, Syn. N. A. Lep. Bm. Ini. p. JIT. (IBBI.)
Sabitat. — " Csliforaia." (BoJBiluTal.)

VOnS AITD DIBCEiraOVI.

In ft " SyQopBia of North American Sphingtdse," • Dr. Brackenridge
Clemens hftg elaborately defined the etructural features which limit the
Family and Mr. Grote, in his " Notes on Cuban SphingidaB," f has
regarded it in the sense in which it ie here intended.

The genua Sphinx of Linnieus, which comprised series of species
united by the most generai and superficial character, baa been reBolved
into Families by Latreille and other Naturalists, a course which has
received the sanction of continued affirmation, the result of determinate
studies of the present Order of Insecta.

The tendency in the Lepidoptera, by an ultimate variahility of form
— which latter is an essential feature in family character — to afford so-
called connecting links, which are in reality but Aualagous Types, has
induced Naturalists often to erect incoherent groups, emhraoing distinct
Families, or to adopt Family names for small groups of genera, held
hither by peculiar ai^i therefore varying and unequal affinities, thus
affording no scope for a conception of the Natural Plan of the Order.
Latreille, in his " Consideration a G^n^ralea," J when arranging his Family
" Sphingidffi," inaugurates it with Cattnia, which latter genus later
study has removed to the Zygssnidse, || but leaves it improved by the
elimination oCthe^^geriidfe (Sesiidte), a course which aeema so proper
aa to create surprise, that the latter Family should have been again
associated with the Sphingidee, by subsequent Naturalists.

Zoologists are agreed, that the distribution of species over the aurfaee
of the earth is uuequal, and, that areas of unequal value can ho defined
within any one Continent or Ocean, that shall contain peculiar speciea,
which separate them into distinct Faunce. § The widest geographical

•Art. V, Journal Apademj Natural Soiencee, Phi!,, pp. B7— 190. (18SB.)
tProeeedings Eutoraologioal Society, Phil., Vol. V, pp. 33—81. (IBflS.)
]:CoQ a i deration! G^n^ralea eur I'ordre naturel deg Animaui contpossot lea
Claeaea des Crustac^s, dee .Irachnides, et dea Iiuecteg; a,vea UQ Tableau M^tho-
dique de leura Qenrea, diapoaia en Famillee, Par P. A. IfttreillB. Paria, 1810.
|{ Packard, Notea on the Family Zygnoidie, Proc. Eaaex lnatitut«. (18«1.)
{Agaaali, Eas. on ClaasiAcation, pp. 13— AS, Lond. Ed., (ISfiS); and Uethoda of
Study in Nat. Hist, pp. OS, 100, Boat. Ed. (1863.)

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extent of these FaiiDie, limited \>y pbyeical conditioos, exhibits the
distributioD of the most ezteosive types, within which, teseer areas are
defined, by the range of more limited and characteristic forms. Were
onr knowledge sufficiently ample and methodized, it is evident that we
should discard political designations in giving the habitat of species,
and, in oontributing to the knowledge of any one Zoolo<;icBl Order or
Family, we should seek to fix its specific distribution with a reference
to these different areas, aided by the delineation of Faunal Maps.

In an admirable contribution to Entomological knowledge, "The
Coleoptera of Kanzaa and Eastern New Mexico," by Dr. John L. Le-
Conte, published bj the Smithsonian Institntion in 1859, such a Fau-
nal Map ia prepared, illustrating the Entomological Provinces of North
Amenca. Dr. LeConte divides the whole region of the United States
into three or four " great Zoological districts, distinguished each by
nnmerous peculiar genera and species" of Coleopterous Insects. We
refer to this work for the elucidation of this division, and content our-
Belves here with merely enumerating the different districts, adopting
the designations which Dr. LeConle has proposed, and remarking, that,
so for as we are aware, the species of Lepidopierons Insects are distri-
buted, generally speaking, over wider geographical areas than Coleop-
terous luBecIs, perhaps owing to the greater development of the organs
of flight, at the expense, somewhat, of those of terrestrial progression.

The Atlantic District extends " from the AClantic Ocean to the arid
prairies on the west of Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas."

The Central District extends "from the western limit of the eHstem
(atlantic") district, perhaps to the mass of the Sierra Nevada of Califor-
nia, including Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and
Texas. Except Arizona, the Entomological feuna of the portion of
this district west of the Rocky Mountains, and, in fact, that of the
mountain region proper, is entirely unknown ; and it is very probable
that the region does, in reality, constitute two districts bounded by the
Rooky Mounta,ins and southern continuation thereof."

The Western District "is the maritime slope of the Continent to the
Pacific, and thus includes California, Oregon and Washington Territo-
ries."

We indicate in addition a Tropical Insular District, embracing the
West India Islands, and which comprehends, in all probability, the
southern extremity of the Floridian Peninsula nd the Florida Keys.
Also a second district, comprehending Mexico, Honduras, Belize and
Yucatan, including, as indicated by Dr. LeConte, a narrow strip near

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the Beacoast of Texas id its nortbeastera Provinoe. Thia maybe called
the Tropical Continental Diatrict.

Tbe sjnoaom J adopted in tbe present paper is the result of peisoual
investigation, almost without ezoeption, of all the works cited. Where
this has not been possible, the citation is included in quotation marks.
Where the species is autoptioally known to ns, or, in a few instances,
fVom venr reliable information, the habitat is followed with a not« of
exclamation.

We have found Mr. Walker's notice of this Family the most useful
and thorough, though we have occasion to differ in certfua instanoefl
from the conclusions of that indefatigable Entomologist. Br. Clemens'
" Synopsis" has also afforded us acceptable information as to the text;
the sjnonomy is, however, a literal and verbatim transcription iVom the
British Museum Lists in by far the greater majority of cases. Where
an improvemoQC has been attempted, as in uniting Philampelus lyratm
and P. satellitia, it seems to have been usually at tbe expense of cor-
rectness.

LaplsMU flkTObseUta.

Mr. Walker describes this species for the first time, in the British
Museum Lists, quoting Dr. Barnston's MSS. as anthbrity for the ge-
neric and specific names adopted. Dr. Clemens has omitted this refer-
ence to Dr. Barnston, giving Mr. Walker as the authority for the spe-
cific name, while copying tbe description from the British Museum
Lists, bein^ autopticallyunacquainted with the species. Mr. G-rote, in
his introduction to his " Notes on Cuban Sphingidse," erects the present
genua for it, comparing its structure with tbe typical European species
of Se.'ia. We consider its present poeition at tbe bead of the Tribe,
authorized by tbe peculiarities of its structnre, and are unwilling to in-
tormpt the continuity of the following genera by tbe interpolation of
tbls genus, which is so intimately allied to Setia. The peculiarly neat
and elegant little species of which this genu3 is composed, has not been
very clearly described by Mr. Walker, and we give here its more detailed
description as follows : Black. Above, tbe thorax and bead are clothed
with pale yellowisfa^ericeous, erect hair, mingled with blackish soales.
Laterally, the palpi and tbe orbits of the eyes are deep black. Abdo-
men bkck, with sericeous hairs above on the basal segment. Anal
tuft black, with lateral sericeous sub-tufls. . The anterior wings are
blackish with obsolete ornamentation ; a rather broad, semi-diaphanous,
sub-terminal bund, composed of sparse and whitish scales, extends
evenly and obliquely from costa to internal margin ; the terminal por-

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tion of the ving is leas thtokly oorered with scales, acquiring a paler
tiDge than the baaal portion. Posterior wings black, with a broad, cen-
tral, bright fhlTOua fasoia, whioh contracts, triangularly, towards ioter-
nal margin, before anal angle beeoming somewhat linear and sinosto.
Beneath, the anterior wings at base are largely covered with bright
fnlrooB sqounmation ; the central fascia on posterior wings is whitish.
Legs and under thoracic and abdominal regions, black. Exp. % 1.60
inch. Length of body .80 inch.

The oolor and pecnliar Sesia-like sericcons sqnammation of this
pretty species, are very snggestive of the hymeaopterous genoa Bom-
bus, notwithstanding the opacity of the wings.
BBBIA. Fab. emend, nob.

The generic term Seiui Fab. Is used in a comprehensive and vagae
sense at first by its discoverer, as an improTement upon Linnaeus' genus
Sphinx. In the Entomologica Systematica, p. 379, 17!I3, it is thus
defined: "Pu/_pi duo refleii. iin^ua exserta, truncata. Anfennmcy-
lindricte." Pabricius there includes under it first, certain species ot
Spbingidm whioh are comprised in the present Tribe Macrogfontini ;
then the species of the Family jEgeriidse (Sesiidse). Through the
observations of different Entomologists the term has at length been re-
stricted by Mr. Walker, in 1856, to the species with more or less vitre-
ous wings; that Entomologist neing it in a synonymical sense to the
genoB Cephtmodeg Hiibner, a genus of which Sftia Bylat Fab. is the
type, and to which latter speoies, from autoptical examination, we are
satisfied it may with propriety be confined. In studying the Ameri-
can species grouped under Sena by Mr. Walker, we have become sat-
isfied that distinct genera have to he eliminated, and that the Eu-
ropean S. facifurmU and S. bombyli/ormii, and the American S.
rfij^nif, offer distinctive features from S. thythe Fab. and allies, and that
to the former the generic term proposed by Fabrioi us should be restricted.
Ab thus understood, the genus Sfaia offers the following structural cha-
racters : The head is globose, free from the thorax ; the palpi, which
are loosely haired, extend as far, but not beyond the steep clypeuB.
The antennae are somewhat suddenly swelled towards their outward
extremity, and are much constricted at base. The prothoracio parts
are square iu front, but moderately advanced before the insertion of
the primaries. The wings are small; anterior pair slightly depressed
at the apices, rounded along external margin, which is not very oblique.
The abdomen is wider than the thorax, stout and plump, ending rather
squarely, terminal segments not sloping down to the apex. The plump

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corporal parts are covered witli long, downy, erect Bquammation, which
is generally of a yellowish -sericeous color, with a greeaish shade above
on the thoraeic parts. The prebusal abdominal segments are clothed
with black, rigid hair ; the anal segments show a slight falvous shade
on the thick sericeous squammation above. The wings are largely
vitreous, with narrow borders. The under aurface shares the charac-
teristic, downyeqnammation. The legs are finely scaled, slender, with
two nearly equal spurs at the base of the middle tibite. The species
form two groups. The first comprises S. f«cifiy)'mis and S. diffinU, in
which the borders of the wings are very narrow and the dtscal cell is
free and naked. The second comprises S. bombyliformi*, in which the
wider borders are dark dull reddish-brown ; the discal cell traversed
longitudinally by an almost imperceptible linear thickening of the tegu-
ment, covered by distinct scales, which latter appear as tf covering a
longitudinal vein.

HSMOBRHAQIA. nov. gen.
When we compare S^siu ihyabe Fab., and allied speoiea with the
species of Sfstti, as above restricl«d, we meet but the character of the
vitreous wings, though that itself somewhat modified, to authorize their
congenerical association. The head, in S ihyshf Fab. and allies, is much
flattened above ; the closely scaled palpi extending beyond the sloping
olypeus. Antennae long and stout, gradually narrowing to base. The
epicraoium is broad behind. The prothoracic parts are well produced
before the insertion of the primaries, and elope in front toward the
eaputal base. The wings are large and acuminate ; in the typical spe-
cies the apex is much produced, the external margin very oblique and
quite uneven, not rounded. The hind wings are large and broad, be-
ing well developed posteriorly. The abdomen is long and rather stout,
anal segments slightly and gradually contracting. The squammation
is very distinctive and nai geuen'e. The corporal parts are clothed with
even, rather sparse, appressed hairs, which lie closely to the surface.
The coloration is rich claret brown ; the head, thoracic parts and basal
abdominal segments, above, are of different shades of green. The wings ■
are broadly margined and are more or less intensely reddish-brown;
the tegument at internal margin aod unal angle of posterior wings is
much eicaggerated and thickly covered with scales. The under surface
of the body is covered with short appressed squummatioL, whitish on
the under surfuce of palpi, thoracic region and legs, the latter with two
very unequal spurs at the base of middle tibi£G. The species are evi-
dently allied U) Aellopon Hiibner, and form an intermediate position

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preparing ua for that genus. The discal cell U retrea^ng, nervnlee
longer than in Seeia. Like Setta, this parallel geans affords two
Groups. The first contains M. gracilig, nob. which approaches the
opposed Group of Sesia, in appearance. In this species the discal cell
is free and uncrossed bj any longitudinal fold or scales. The head
approaches Segia in structure, while the characters in their entirety
induce us to refer it as a Group of the present genus, with which its
sqnammation agrees. The second Oronp contains S. ihgihe Fab., S.
fuickaudis Walk, and probably S. ruficaudU Kirby, non Walker, and
is the more typical Group of the genus and upon which the above
diagnosis is generally based. The palpi exceed the clypeus greatly
and are converging at the tips. The discal vein is longitudinally
crossed by a line of scales, though a thickening of the discal mem-
brane beneath is not appreciable.

HtMBOTThagia graoilis, nov. sp. (PI. 3, fige. 1 Jb 2%.)

Form somewhat small and slight. Head and thorax above, clothed
with olive green appressed hair ; basal segments similarly colored.
Palpi, black at the tips, whitish beneath. Orbits of the eyes white, in
front of these, a few whitish scales. Laterally the under thoracic parte
are clothed with long white hair, estendiog from behind the eyes to
base of secondaries. Wings, vitreous ; anterior pair largely dark ted
at base, the scales encroaching on the discal cell from the base. Discal
cell free. Kxternal margin with a moderately broad, dark red, even,
hand, which is brighter stained apically, narrowing to internal angle.
Internal margin clothed with dark red scales. Posterior wings dark
red, puler on internal margin and above anal angle. Centrally, these
are vitreous, the diaphanous space crossed hy Jtae nervules. Abdomen,
except basal segments, dark red ) third basal segment fringed anteri-
orly with pale hairs; fourth, dorsully with a few similar colored ap-
pressed hairs; fifth and sixth with a lew pale lateral hairs. Anal tuft
black laterally, centrally pale red. Under surface pale red ; abdomen
pale red, with a central subobsolete series of pale spots composed of a
. few agglomerated hairs. Laterally, spots of similarly colored hair at
the base of the segments; posteriorly thesegmento show a narrow edg-
ing of black hairs. The sides of the abdomen show sub-tufts fringed
above with pale yellowish, similarly colored hair, to Chat forming the
lateral and central series of abdominal spots Aiial tult concolorous
with ubdonien beneath; extremities of anal hairs, black. Anterior
lemora clothed with thick white hair; similar hair also covers the un-
der thoracic part centrally. Anterior tibiee pale red, as are also the

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middle and posterior legs, both femora and tibiae. MazilltB well devel*
oped. Posterior wings beneath, with a pale yellowiali patch at anal
angle. Exp. % , 1.75 inch. Length of body .S5 inch.

fl((6i"(at.— Canada West (Saunders). " New Yort State " (Walker).

The marginal band on the anterior wings is not dentate between the
veins as in S. thyahe Fab,, from which the present is amply distinct by
its smaller size, differently colored legs and free discal cell, while we
have above diacnssci its structural position a^ forming a Group in the
present genus.

This species is evidently the S. mficaudis of Mr. Walker, judging
by the description in the British Mnsenm Lists. It can in no event
be regarded as a variety of •S'. thygbe, while we call the attention of
Lepidopterists to the formation of the inner margin of the outer band
on the anterior wings as affording speeifio character, in separating the
species of this genus. In 3. ikytbe it is very dentate inwardly ou the
interspaces.

HvmoTThagla mUeandU, Eirby, sp. aoa alior.

The description of this species given by Kirby, reads as follows : —
" Body yellow- oh ve, underneath pale yellow. Antennse"black; prima-
ries reddish -brown, hyaline in the disk, with the hyaline part half di-
vided towards the base, with a costal bar, covered with yellow olive
hairs at the base; underneath the costa, the posterior Diargio and the
nervurea are dark ferruginous; there is also a yellow stripe on the in-
ner side of the base ; secondaries hyaline in the disk ; base externally
and costa yellow; internally the base ia ferruginous; underneath the
dark part of the wing is ferruginous, and the base pale-yellow : two
first segments of the body yellow-olive, two next black, the rest ferru-
ginous with pale yellow lateral spots. This species appears te be the
American representative of Si-niii fucifni'mis which it greatly resembles,
but differs in the cclor of the tail and the base of the secondaries."

Were we satisfied as to the species Kirby intended by S. fucifor-
mig, the present species might he regarded as related to S. diffinin
Boisd. sp. As it is, we think that a species of Hmmorrhagia is meant, '
while the species has not been since identified. Kirby's description
presents too many points of difference with H. (/racilii, to allow us
to refer that species as intended, while Mr. Walker evidently describes
our species as intended by Kirby. Dr. Clemens is autoptieally ae-
quainled with neither species while, properly keeping Mr. Walker's and
Kirby's descriptions apart. In dismissing the present genua from con-
sideration, we remark that the Asiatic S. i-aifiaim Walk., may belong

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to ffmmorrhagia ; S. ffylaf Fab., as we have already renuurked, and
probably also S. Ouitnvnghatni Boisd. sp., should be referred to Cepho-
node* Htibner.

A mutilated epeoimea from the most northern parte of Gaoada West
ia before as, whtoh evidently furms a distiact species from H. thytbe.
In this species, which ia altogether slenderer than its congener, the
inner margin of the terminal band on anterior wioga is nowhere den-
ticulate in the interspaces, but is medially, somewhat inwardly, pro-
duced. We arp not indisposed to regard this aa Kirby'a species, but
the inferior condition of the specimen prevents all conclusions. The
discal cell ia crossed by a longitudinal scale line, the species belonging
to the more typical group of the Genus Hmmorrkagia.

ind Dr. Clemens have confounded the present spe-
cies and Aellopog tilan together, we do not cit« these Authors in the
synonymy of either species. We do not find that Authors, since Lin-
nteus and Fsbricius wrote, have identified Sphinx Teton Linn., a name
to which Mr. Walker refers as a synonym to Macrogloaaa Tantalta
Walk. Linnteua' descriptive phrase reads as follows, while the absence
of any reference to the superior abdominal white band prevents our
considering the probability of Cramer's S. titun being intended : " Ision.
26. S. abdomine barbate: lateribus punetis utrinque4 niveis. M. L.
U. Hitbitat in calidis regionibus." Syst. Nat. p. 803. Fabrieius in
his " Entomologia Systematica" refers S. Ixion as a synonym to S.
tantalux, citing Cramer's figure, Plate 68, fig. F, and doubtless without
autoptical knowledge of the species which now appears to be lost.
Auphion UMini.

Hiibner, in erecting this genus in his " Yerzelchniss," associates with
it, apparently erroneoasly, Cramer's .S^. Brenuw), Plate 398 (:Jy6), fig.
B.(D), referred to the genus ChxrtKiimpn by Mr. Walker. The Ame-
rican species is evidently regarded as the more typical of the genua by
Hubner, who enumerates it first. A. nrxn'is is genericallj distinct from
Thi/reun ablmtii, and it seems proper to retain HUboer's generic name
for the apei;ies.
Hsmeroplonei piendothyrsiu.

This species resembles S. oii-lvs Cramer, from Surinam, in the dis-
posiciuQ of the prothoracic markings ; otherwise it is very distinct from
both Cramer's figure and description, 'i he latter reads as follows : —
" Ce Sphinx a sur le heuu dessein de chaque ailc sup^rieure, trois pe-
lites tuches d'uu lustre argeute, dont I'une est plac^ vers les jointures,

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et len deux autrea sur le milieu, vers le bord exterienr. En-dessous le
corps est d'uD rouge bruo clair. Sur Tabdomen quatre poiots blaDCe.
Lee ailea inffirieures ver» le corps sont btaaches ; le reete aveo lea ailes
8up£rieureB sont bandea traasTersalea dentel^s brun&tree. La trotiipe
est longue."
Perigonia reititnta.

To the kindness of Mr. J. W. Weidemeyer we are indebted for in-
formation about this &1SS. species, of whiob Mr. S. Calverley bae
sbowD US a figure made under the superintendence of Mr. Walker.
It is an elougate species with rather narrow wings, and belongs to the
typical group of the genus which contains P. Ivsca, P. slulla, and P.
le/ebcrv. The posterior wings are much produced at anal angle, which
is shaded with yellow scales. The median yellow demi-band, which is
characteristic of the genus, extends from the costa, where it is broadest,
to about the ceutre of the wing, where it terminates with a rounded
inward inflection. It is from Mexico. P. ml/hamata and P. glauces-
cen», present structural difierences compared with the species cited
above, and which are more typical of the genus; the figures which we
have seen of these latter two of Mr. Walker's species, suggest that these
might be separated generically from Perignnia.
PrMerpinni ganrn.

It is very probable that (he spteies described by Dr. Clemens under
this name from Texas, is not the same as the one intended by Abtxtt
& Smith, since the Texan species is stated by Dr. Clemens to disagree
with Abbot's figure in the conformation of the external margin of an-
terior wings, and, from the description, it would seem to differ also
slightly in coloration.

EIFFBQSESFnnTS, nov, gen.

Wings entire : anterior pair large, rounded superiorly along external
margin, much excavated before the exserted tnternul angle; internal
margin straight. Secondaries reduced, subtriangulate, hardly excavate
before anal angle; external margin slightly rounded. _ Antennae, stout,
flesuous and long. Head, rather small; prothoracic parts but slightly
advanced before the insertion of the primaries Abdomen, slender, well
exceeding the secondaries, furnished with regular series of long hair-
tufts on the terminal segments above, and ktemlly the anal segment
with u spreading terminal tuft.

We erect this genus for a small California species of the present
Family, which, while allied to Pro»erpinua, differs by the small, reduced
secondaries, longer antennae and tufted abdomen. We are indebted to

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Mr. J. W. Weidemeyer for the information reepectiog this singular
little species, which, we helieve, has not been hitherto described, white
an excellent figure, shown ua by Mr. 8. Calverley, enables us to present
the present description and to fix the species. It appears that Dr.
Boisduval haa etiquetted a specimen in hia cabinet as Pronerpiniu
Phaeton.
Bnproiarpinai Fluwton.

Site small; anterior wings of a bluish shade, costa at base tiD<;ed
with testaceous. A blackish, regularly Innulate transverse line, angu-
lated below costs, rnns inwardly obliijuely from costa to internal mar-
gin at basal third. Between this line and the baae of the wing are two
blackish parallel marka below costa. A few blackish scales on the
discal cross-vein. Median space even in width fVom internal margin
until above the angulation of the first transverse line, when it widens
to costa. Subterminal space pale brownish-testaceons, defined inwardly
by a distinct blackish transverse line, and similar to the front, exca-
vate between the nervules and slightly arcuate before costa. An in-
terior narrow line, furcate below costa; subterminal space margined
outwardly by a very distinct, blatHiisb, shade hand which is slightly
sinuate and not excavate. Terminal space dull bluish, con col or oua with
median. Posterior wings whitish, shaded with brownish- testaceous at
base, and with an even, distinct, broad, black subterminal band, which
leaves a very narrow whitish terminal border and does not attain anal
angle.

Tegulse, lined within with darker lines; corporale parts darker but
concolorons with primaries; above, the abdomen shows some darker
shades; anterior tufto, of which the first extends across the abdomen
above, paler; those on anal and pre-anal segments, blackish. Exp. 1.50
inch. Length of body .65 inch.

OHCEKOOAKPA.

The species arranged under this genus may be resolved into three
groups. The first contains C gundliichii H-S. and V. imrratu Grote,
in which species the anterior wings are not at ail falcate ; the external
margin is rounded and the ornamentation is modified, since a straight,
narrow, subterminal, darker shade line is drawn across the wings. The
second group contains apparently 6'. nec/ius, 6'. thalaisina, 0. porciis
and 0. nitidula. These are rather stout, heavy species, having the
external margin sinuate ; the coloration is green and brown, with dif-
fuse spots and bands. The third group contains apparently 6' priwiie,
C. vertulu, C. lersa, C rvbiasonii and C. /a/co. These are slender

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species, having the aoterior wings more or less falcate, and crossed by
fine, striate, pale lioea, which are quite characteristic. This latter
group is well represented in Asia and Africa, te judge froio authors,
where the species sometimes acquire argent metallic lines and tinges.
Ab to G drancai Cramer, sp., quoted by Mr. Walker as occurring in
the West Indies, Cramer gives the habitat plainly as " Indes Orien-
tales," Cram. Exot. Yol. 2, p. 56. This habitat is erroneonsly trans-
lated by Mr. Walker, who has not identified the species. Dr. Clemens
copies Mr.Walker'serroneonBhabitat,evideotly without having referred
to Cramer's work. The different genera in this Tribe are remarkable
in having green and brown species, while Mr. Grote has remarked that
certein larva belonging to this same Tribe show indifferently these two
" cosmical tints" at maturity. In the genus Otu», O. ckarUu» is brown,
the rest more or less green. In Chstrocampa, C. irrorata Orote, and
generally speaking the species of the third group, are brown or brown-
ish. In Philampelus, P. arhemon and P. typhon assume a brownish
hue, etc.
Osllsphila intennBdia, K'lrbj.

Tihis species, which is not yet identified, may be the same as D. eka-
mmnerii Harris, but for the present it is best to keep it distinct, since
Kirby's insufficient diagnosis could hardly entitle it to teke precedence
of Dr. Harris' species, though anterior in point of publication. The
description in the Fauna Am. Bor. roads as follows : " This species ia
intermediate between D. Euphorbia and D. pain, which last it most
resembles, but the anterior portion of the megal stripe of the primary
wings is pale rose color ; the fringes of their inner margin, and of the
posterior of the secondaries is white; there is no series of white dote
on the back of the abdomen, and the ventral segmente are fringed at
the apex with white hairs. This description was taken from an old
specimen, apparently somewhat fuded."
DsiltpliUa Uneata.

Fabricius, in his late works, himself regarded our species as identical
with the European D. licormca. We refer to Mr. Grote's recent paper
for remarks on the synonymy of this species, as well aa on D. cJiamte-

Fhtlampclai vitii and FhilaiiLpalni IdnnaL

Linnteus is the first to describe a species of Sphinx under the spe-
cific name of vitit. His diagnosis reads as follows; "S. alls cineris
fusco variis: posticis maigine interiore sanguineis." He refers te M.
Merian's figure, T. 47, fig. 1, Ins. Snrin., and adds : " Alse inferiores

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macala nigra in diaco, et fascia nigra postice." The Plate of M. Me-
riao's referred to, represeats two distinct speciee. The lover figure
on the Plate eeema to ns to represent Philatnpel'u* lycnon Orote. The
upper, and the one probably intended by Linaseus, while neither figure
is numbered, repreients the speoiea which we inteod here as P. vitit.
The figure is gross, and in the uncolored copies might be readily mis-
taken for a second species which we describe here as Philampelttx
Liunei, which has been figured by Cramer ou Plate 268, figure E, a
figure which has been confounded with that on Plate'i67,fig.C,by Mr.'
Walker and Dr. Olemens. M. Merian evidently mistook the two spe-
cies which she figures, for sexes of one and the snme species. We
quote: "een schoner Uil TOortquani, gruen en rood met ligte leverwige
streepsen, haar smuit en hornjea waren gout geel, die Mannetjes waren
schoonder als die Wyfljes." The upper figure has the pink terminal
band, which is characteristic of Philamprlut ciii*, nob, and this feature
is decisive as to the species intended. Drury, in 1770, is the first En-
tomologist after Liunieus to figure and describe Linnaeus' S/ihinj: vitis.
His figure, which is very satisfactory, represents the slighter species
with the terminal pink band, and this figure is mistakenly quoted with
Cramer's Plate 267, fig. C, and Abbot & Smith's Plate 40, by Mr.
Walker and Dc. Clemens, in the synonymy of the species figured by
Cramer on Plate 268, fig. E, and which these authors deb^rmine as
Sphinx vitis Linn. In 1776 the authors of the Wiener Veraeichnias
figure Sphinx ut'tiV Linn, on the two colored Frontispieces to their work.
The figures agree with Drury's. In the same year Suleer figures the
same species as Sphinx fmi-iatut Sulzer, a name which is therefore a
simple synonym of Sphinx vitis Linn., while, without having seen the
work, Mr. Grole has hastily supposed that Sulzer's figure represented
the second species, misled by the incorrect synonymy of Mr. Walker
and Dr. Clemens. Cramer neit, in 1782, figures the 5. vitin of Lin-
naeus correctly on Plate 267, while mistakeolj figuring on Plate 268,
and for the first and only time, the second speeiea — Phi/umpfluM Lin-
net, nob — as the female of S. vitis. Cramer criticiEes, on another page
of his work, the course of Sulier in re-describing Linnaeus' S. vilii
under the new name of S. fatciatiis. In 1797, Abbot k Smith figure
Sphinx vitis. Their excellent figure represents the same species given
by Drury, the W. V. and Cramer (Plate 267). Both Mr. Walker and
Dr. Clemens quote the figure of Abbot & Smith's in the synonymy of
their P. vitii, which, as already stated, is not that of Merian, Linn.,
Drury, " W. V.," nor of Abbot & Smith. Dr. Clemens adds to the

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oonfnaion by deeoribing the larva from Abbot & Smith, which of ne-
oesgity belongs to the figured imago, aB that of P. vUia Clem., whil«
tbie larva in reality beloDgs to the species described as FhdlampeUt
jusm'eum, Clemens. In 1806 — 1824 Hiibner twice %uree Sphinx viti$
uader the specific name of Jmsieum, a name drawn apparently from
the food plant represented by Abbot. UUbner's figures are, as usnal,
excellent, but not better than Dmiy's and Abbot & Smith's represen-
tations of this species. This name of Hilbner'a mnst therefore be added
to the synonymy of Sphinx vitia Linn., as stated by Air. Grote. In
1839 Dr. Harris describes the Sphinx mti» nob, erecting for it wid
allied speoies, the genus Philampelua. It is very evident that Dr.
Hairis' description belongs here, though again tnisquot«d by Mr. Walker
and Sr. Clemens. Dr. Harris describee a species nnder tbe specifio
name of Hombeckiana, from specimenB received from St. Thomas, W.
I., which is perhaps the species dasoribed by us as P. Linnet, while we
note the disparities which prevent our acceptance of Br. Harris' spe-
oific name lor our species. In 1856 Mr. Walker retains the name of
P. jiuiieum for the species figured by Merian, Drury, " W. V.," Cra-
mer (Plate :i67). Abbot & Smith, and described by Linneens as Sphinx
vilis, and by Dr. Harris in 1839 aa Philampelvt vitif. Under "P.
oUi»" Mr. Walker describes the species figured by Cramer on Plate
268, and which we describe as Philampelui Linnei, since it appears
that it is undeacribed until now, having been uniformly mistaken, for
some reason or other, for the Sphinx vitit of Linnsens and the earlier
ftnthors. In 1859 Dr. Clemens adopts Mr. Walker's synonymy, while
deecribing the larva of Sphinx vitit Abbot k Smith, under the species
which is evidently Philnmpelas Linnei nob., as already stated, in ad-
dition remarking, that '' this species (i. e. P. juniieute, Clem. ^ S. vitit
Linn, = Philampelu» vilii Harris) approaches S. viti» (i. e. Sphinx
vitit Cram., Plate 268 nan alior sa Phiiampelne Linnei nobis) bo nearly
in ornamentation that I am disposed to regard it as a variety," a view
which Mr. Grote has already contradictfed, and which we regard as
quite erroncooB in any sense.

PUlampeliu vitii. Barrie.

^hinx vitit, LinnnuB.

Wings narrower and more acute. Anterior wings with the estcrnal
margin straight, not rounded. An inwardly slightly arcuated, even,
oblique, fuscous fascia runs from the costa before the spez to about the
centre of the inner margin, joining, beyond the disc, at the middle of
the wing a similar broad, longitudinal fascia, which emanates from the

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base of the wing. Groaad color of tbe wing daaly olivaceonB; coeta
uid terminal eptice obBcure brownish. Nemilea indefinitely marked
with fnsooDa scales. The obliqne fascia aends off a branoh before costa
to the apex, and ontwardlj, before internal margin, is divided narrowly
by olivaceons aoales which cause an outward parallel line to appear.
A discal spot, enclosed by fuscone scales above the central fascia. A
narrow, transverse, fuscous line intersects the olivaceons space on in-
ternal mar^n, running straightly from the central parallel fascia to in-
ternal margin and forming the inner defining line of the V-shaped
patch on internal margin which is characteristic of the genus.

Posterior wings dull pale greenish inwardly. Along the external
margin, from costal angle to medio-poet«nor nervule, is a broad termi-
nal pink baud, within which a broad black fascia, interrupted by green-
ish scales on the nerrnles, and t«rminat!ng below tnedio-posterior ner-
vnle, in two narrow lines, outside of which latter is a brownish square
space above anal angle. Internal margin and anal angle, largely pink ;
two large black spots below the disc, merely separated by a few pink
scales ; a few white scales within the terminal black lines above a^bX
angle.

FhiUmpeliLt Linul, nob. (Plate 3, Eg. S, $ .)
Sphinx Viti», Cramer, Plate 108, &g. £.

Wings broader and more rounded. Anterior wings with the exter-
nal mai^in undulate and rounded. An irregular broad fuscous fascia,
lined inwardly with whitish scales, runs from costa, before apex, to in-
ternal margin, enclosing an irregular, coincident, darter, outward line
of scales, and sending off a more yellowish broad branch, before costa,
to apes. First, second and third inferior median nervulea marked with
fuscous and whitish scales. A broad, darker, parallel, fuscous fascia
runs from the base of the wing to tbe first, which it nearly attains
beyond the disc, but is separated by a few olivaceous scales. Uroand
color of the wing, dark intense olivaceous. Costa and terminal space,
obscure brownish. Two olivaceons discal dots, enclosed by fuscous
scales above the central fascia. A geminate, fuscous, irregular, trans-
verse band runs from costa to iulernal margin, angulate above the cen-
tral fascia, and forming, on internal margin, tbe inner defining limit to
the olivaceous V-sbaped patch which ia characteristic of the genus.

Posterior wings light green; a large rose-colored space on anal angle
and along interniil margin ; a large rectangular black spot within; two
narrow median lines, tbe inner — black, most distinct, and joining the
large black spot at tbe enter inferior angle, the outer — faint, glaucous,

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contiguous to eabterminal baud, beat before anal angle ; a broad, sub-
terminal black band, widest at oosta, natroving to anal angle, before
vliich it is snddeoly oooatrioted; terminal space narrow, nowhere
pinkish, obecure brownish j external mai^u more rounded than in P.

As regards Phiiampehu ffombeckiana, we are indebted to Dr.
Packard and Mr. Sanborn for the information diat a thorough search
into Dr. Harris' collection, kindly nndertaken at our request, has failed
to detect any specimen resembliDg Dr. Harris' description of this spe-
cies, or 80 labelled. While Dr. Harrb' description would seem to imply
that P. Linnei nob. ia int«nded, the dcBoription of the anterior wings
does not correspond, while that of the posterior wings must be incom-
plete, if it is to be taken literally. The description of the corporal parts
quite nearly correapood with our specimens of P. Linnet, but these
have great coiacidence in the present genus. Warned by the disco-
very of P. glrenuiM, that there probably exist more species belongiog
to this genua than at present known, we conclude that perhaps Dr.
Harris' species may be re-discovered at some future day, while this has
been an incentive to us to endeavor to fix the limits of P. viti* since
that species has been so often mistaken by authors, aa will be seen by
the digest of our synonymy, that we knowof nooasein this Family where
the opinions are so conflicting and the matter of referenoes so intricate.
We trust that we have shed some light on a subject, which, adopting
the synonymy of Mr, Walker and Dr. Clemens, is simply incomprehen-
sible, and could hardly lead any Entomologist into ought but error.
All the descriptions and figures we quote in the synonymy of these
species have been critically examined, and, since in this case the ac-
knowledged insufficiency of the earlier Latin diagnosis is strengthened
by a figure, which, however gross, bears a distinctive coloring which
appears to us to afibrd a strong specific character, we can come to no
other conclusions than those we have here presented, independent of
the concurrent testimony of so many of the earlier authorities on Ame-
rican Lepidoptera.

PUlampeloi Ijoaon. (FUte 3, fig. 4, $.)

We refer to Mr. Orote's paper for remarks on this species as well as
on P. sateUitia. Although Cramer's figure of S. lieaon wants the anal
roseate patch, still this is vaguely indicated in tbe description, which
is short, and reads as follows: " Ce Sphinx Untier tr^ rare (Sphinx
Legitima) est eu-dessous de coulenr minime et vers les pointes des
lules inf^rieures de couleur rousse." There is, perhaps, a third speciea

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to be eliminated, jadgiDg Prom what Mr, Walker remarlca, and, in case
this should prove to be Cramer's lieaon, the present will receive the
name of PkHampe/tu pottieahu Grote. Hiibner's figure, as remarlced
by Dr. Herrioh-Sohseffer, ia rather dark, but this seema to be a general
feature of all the figures of Sphingidee given in the " 8amm. Exot.
6eh.," while the course of the linea and the roseate anal patch leave no
donbt that this ia the apeoiea intended. Both Mr. Walker and Prof.
BnrmeiBterwronglytefer Dr. Harris' /*. n)t<!//if /a to the present apecieo.
The former has, in addition, given a citation of a species nnder the
name of P. ainpelop'kaga Harris, which (vide Clemena) does not ap-
pear to exist,
pjiilampelni Aohaman.

The habitat of Cramer's 8. Cranlor ia, we believe, erroneously given
aa " lodea Orientalea." The figure adequately corresponds to our spe-
dea, which had been previonsly figured and described by Dmry nnder
the epecific name we have here adopted.

Paolirlia flon*.

LiuDieus' description reada as follows; "S. alia fusco-Debuloeia : pos-
ticis angulo ani albia. Alse superiorea in media puncto fuaco ; maoula
pallida ad apicem anticum ; inferiores aupra fasclis 2 fuscia." He refers
to Blerian'a Pate No. 33. On this Plate M. Merisn represents both
the present species and its larva and also P. inornata Clemens, imago
and larva, while the description separates two apeciea to which different
dates are given for the escape of the iniagos from the pupae. Linnteus'
description conclusively refers to the larger species with banded secoa-
daries, which ia represented by M. Merian with wings extended. The
second species, P. inornata Clemens, is represented poised on a branch-
let, the primaries partly covering the secondaries, which latter are
plainly nearly unicolorous and dark; the triangulate, costal, median,
paler pateh, and the totality of the characters, leave no douht aa te the
species represented by this figure. The larvae are represented as very
distinct in ornamentation. We do not give, purposely, any references
to M. Merian'a work, or to those of authors anterior to Linnaeus. In
the works of theae early Entomolc^sts proper scientifio nomenclature
is not given, and, if we study them too critically, we can only lose a
veneration which Is evolved from the eonaideration of the early times
in which the authors wrote, without reference to their ideas, which
are too often erroneous, or to their figures, which are very generally
defective. We see no propriety, then, in adopting the course of M.
M^n^tri^, in the matter of the synonymy of these two species, while

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we agree with that emiDeDt Eatomologiet that the two speoies are quite
distinct. Prof. Burmeister confounda the two as sexes of one species,
odoptiDg Cramer's error. Mr. Grote's doubtful citation of Weetwood's
Bd. Drurj is iocorrect, and, so far as we are aware, the name of Orameri
is fiist proposed by M^^tri^, whose remarks we cite : " Cramer a figuri
Fl. 894, D, le Ficw mftle, et il y rapporte oomme la femelle la figure
246, E, Cest a tort je crois qu'oo a adopts son opiuiou ; I'Academie
possMe lea deux sexes de chacun de oea papillons, qui m'ont paru oon-
stituer deuz espeoes diff£rentea. Ainsi pour nous, la figure de Cr. 394,
D, repr^sente le veritable Fieia Cr., tandia qne la figure 246, E, ap-
parlient a uoe autre esp^e que nous avons nomm^ 6Vameri."

Smerintlrai geminatai.

The synonymy of this species, as given by Mr. Walker and Dr. Cle-
mens, seems U> as quite erroneoos. We find no description of this
species as " Sphinx geminala" by Say, who, bo far as we are aware,
does not mention the species except in the first volume of the " Am^
ricau Entomology." Smerinfhua jamaicennn Drury sp. seems to ns,
judging from Drury's figure and desoriptiou, quite distinct froio the
northern species from the Atlantic District, while we have satisfied
ourselves that S. eeritii Kirby is also distinct from its near ally — ;>S^.
gemiiialug.
Bmnintlin* pavonlnu.

A hitherto unidentified, and, since Geyer wrote, unnoticed species of
SmertHthug, which the author mentions having received from Pennsyl-
vania. It seems allied to S. exccecatits, while Geyer compares it with
the European S. ocetlaiia; compared with the former, Geyer's figures
ofier too many points of distinctiveness to allow us to consider it as the
species intended,
flmeriBbiu modeatni.

The genua Poli/ptychia was erected by Buhner in his "Yerzeich-
niss," for those species of Smerintkvs which may be shortly oharacter-
iied as possessing unocellated and differently shaped secondaries.
As it stands, it contains dissonant materiid and cannot be accepted.
Since we are dispH)sed, generally, to regard the species first cited under
Hiibner's genera, as typically intended, we find in the present instance,
that the Asiatic Sphinx dentatiu Cramer, offers structural features
which seem to authorize its generic separation from Smfrinthm Latr.
as typically intended, (with which latter, Paimitu Htibner is syno-
nymous) and that to this species, Hiibner's genus may be restricted.
Od comparing S. modentut Harris with the European S. populi, wa

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fiDd that the speeiea are somewhat nearlyallied, while onr species offers
differenced in the strnotare of the antennte and in the ehape of the se-
oondariea, especially in the strnoture of their costal margin. The form
of the palpi and position of the bead, very nearly correspond in the
two speoies. We express the opinion that dissectional study will oblige
the separation of SjTieriTtthiu modeslvs from the typical species first cited
in our Catalogue, while for the present we leave it in the genua in
which it was placed by Dr. Harris.

GBXBSOHU, nor. gen.
A genus hitherto confounded with Smerinthm and Pott/ph/chvs, by
authors; the single North American speoies distingaished by the fol-
. lowing characters and without a described representative in the Old
World:

The antennae are rather short and blunt; in the male, doubly bi-pec-
tinate, the pectinations stout and well developed, produced from be-
neath the antenna! stem ; in the female, the antenna are simple. The
small head is freer from the thorax than in Smerinlhus, and neither
so snnken in the prothoracio parts or so depressed. The acuminate
palpi are longer, more freely scaled, held free from and exceeding the
"front," divergent at the tips in the male; the clypeal squummation
forms a produced ridge. The prothorax is squarer in front ; above, the
thoracic surface is more flattened, not roundedly elevated us in Smerin'
thus. The anterior wings are broad and large,
excavate, between the nervnles, along the ex-
ternal margin in the female, even, in the male.
k The "veiDs" are slight, the nervules more bent
downwards and curvilinear than in Smermihru.

Anterior wing of P Orta- , 1,1 i mi .

aania, natural size, intoraat angle lesci exserted. The' posterior
wings are full and rounded, not " out away " before the
anal angle on external margin — the latter emarginate ic
both sexes — differing prominently from Smerinthus in
their general shape, being more rounded and not pro-
duced apically; the costal vein is basally divaricate, "^tonor wmg of
the nervules long, curvilinear and divergent. The ab- tural sise.

^-js=^ domen is slender and elongate, and affords distinctive
tj ^'Cyrj — I T characters compared with that part in Smerinthui. In
^^\^^S^ the male it is very long and slender, the anal segment
PoBteriorwiDgofP'''''''^^'i '^^^ * terminal and lateral Bub-tufta, giving a
Smennthut, (ge- tri-partite appearance to the terminal segment, which is
ral size. chacact«ristjc. This genus differs importantly from S~

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jvopWt of Europe, which Dr. Clemens has, we consider wrongly, reg&rded
as itB "representative." The structure of the caputal parts in their en-
tirety, in particulsT that of the palpi, offers distinctive features, and
the position of the head and the characters drawn from the secondaries
are ttti-generu. C. juglandia is much slighter than S- popvli, and ita
slender, elongate, corporal parta, contribute to give it an unusually
strong Bombjcid appearance, reminding one of Apatelode* and I'arO'
ikyri». The species wants the bright colored scale-patch at tiie base
of the secondaries, characteristic of S. popuh. The ornamentation aud
coloration are peculiar; the parallel, oblique, transverse lines are even,
not excavate or lunulate as in S. popvli.

Dr. Clemens remarks, concerning the larva, that it is " graniilat«d
on transverse wrinkles, tapers anteriorly, the thoracic rings being
slender. The head is pyramidal and granulated, the vertex elevated
above the dorsum and bifid ; candal horn densely apined. The posi-
tion of the larva at rest is not sphinx-like; it is extended along the
midrib of a leaf, and when disturbed, throws it« bead from side to side,
making a crepitating noise." And of the pupa, that it "is rough, with
the terminal segments of abdomen flattened."

A study of the species compriBing this Tribe has satisfied ns, that
its affinities are better served by according it a central position in the
fomily, the Bombycid characters of the species detracting nothing from
their Sphingid qualities. Ambu^x, in the preceding Tribe, has mneh
affinity, in both larval and imaginal states, with Smerinthue, and the
Smerinthid genus Colax, Hilbner, shows very plainly affinities with the
Chxrocampini. A study of the figures of foreign Smerinthim, has
confirmed this reference.

We name this hitherto undetected North American Sphingid genus
after Ezra T. Cressoa, of Philadelphia, whose sterling merit as an En-
tomologist we acknowledge, aud for whose kindness as a iVteud, we
have reasons to be grateful.

■aaroiils qiiinqn«mB«iLl>ta.

We have been unable to find any notice of this species by Haworth,
in any of the works of that author which have been accessible to ns.
Mr. E. T. Cresson has likewise kindly assisted us in the research, and
with the same result. The first notice of the species under this name,
that we find, is by Stephens, in 1828, who calls the species " Sphinx
quinquemacnlatus Haw.," giving no reference or authority for the cita-
tion; hence the name maybe mereiya JfiSS. one of Ha*ortb. In the
latter view of the case, the name under which HUbner figures It in the

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" StunmluDg Exot. ScliiD.," will be retained and the epeoies be Icdowd
•a Maokobila celbub. We note Dr. Fitch's remarke ia his Ninth
Report, p. 212, where the date, 1802, is given for Hsworth'a descrip-
tion of this species, but no citation is given of anj work to authenticate
this reference. The oritioal remarks, intended to show that Dr. Harris
eommitted an error in hia " Catalogue of North American Sphingea,"
in describing the present species as S. Carolina, are destitute of value,
when we consider the brevity of Dr. HariKs' deaoription, the fact that
both species occur io Massachusetts, and that they are properly sepa-
rated in the "Insects Injurious to Vegetation."
DUUDIA, HOT. gen.

The genera Goci/tiut, PhlrgetkonHu* and Agriva, erected by Hlibner
in his " VerzeichDiss," appear to us untenable, for the reason that they
contain dissonant uaterial, while the species are quite confuaedlj
arranged, showing that Htbner was very probably autnptically unao-
quainted with the species to a greater or leea extent. We erect the
present genus for certain robust American Sphingidso which seem pro-
perly associated with neither Macrn»ila or Sphinx, and have been
already superflcially characterized by Mr. Grote as cinereous, roughly
haired species of " Sphinx." The type is Sphinx Brontes Drury,
(H-9., Grote) while other species will probably be found to be properly
referred here as Sphinx le.w.ophmata Clem., and S. j'temineariim Boisd.,
with which we are autoptically unacquainted.

The head is large and salient; prothoraoic parts well advanced before
the insertion of the primaries. Wings ample; esternal margin near^
straight, QOt rounded; internal angle produced. Posterior wings with
the external mai^tn rather straight, excuvate before anal angle. Ab-
domen long and stout; 1^ provided with stout spurs. The squamma-
tion is rough and cinereous, while the posterior wings are usually more
or less suffused with darker shades and crossed by narrow black bands.

From MacrosHa, the species differ by the straighter external margin
of the primaries and by the exserted internal angle, in these characters
resembling Amphonyx, while the normal palpal conformation, with a
number of other characters, amply separate them &om Prof. Poey's
genus. We do not give further characters here, of a genus which we
are satisfied should be erected, since we have insufficient material upon
which to amplify from needed dissections.
Dilndia broatM.

We refer to Mr. Grote's paper for the particulars of the synonymy of
this epecies, lately discovered in the West Indies, and which conforms,

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in OUT opiDioD, suffioieotly with Brary's Ggnre and deacriptjoo to war-
rant the aflBumption that it is the species ioteDded. A compansoa of
Drnrj'B description will disclose the fact, that the differences presented
between the secondarieB in Drury's figure and our species can be recon-
ciled; there remaio, than, but the differing habitat given b; Drarj and
the superior size of his figure. When we remember tbe freqaent errors of
the older authorities as to the locality of the species they illustrate, wa
shall errif we accord too much weight to such references. Mr. Qrotehaa
oonimented sufficiently upon the charaetors of omameDtation which
unito the Cnbau species and Drury's figure, and we opine, that the
name of Sphinx cubeiuit, proposed by Mr. Grote for the present spe-
cies in ihe case that Drury's speoies were eventually more satisfactorily
discovered, will not be available.

BTZTUtA, DOT. gen.

Differing from DCltulia, in the shape of the wings and proportions of
the corporate parts, the present genus contains apparently two charae-
teriatic species of the present Family, which have hitherto been referred
by authors to Hi/loicut and Sphinx. The autennee are very long and
masnve. and are oharactoriatic. The head is large, as are the eyes, but
not so salient as in DHudia and Macro»ila; the prothorax is rather
square in front, moderately advanced before the insertion of the prima-
ries. These latter are much rounded along esternal mar^n ; apices
depressed. The posterior tibiee are strongly spurred. The species
composing this genus are charactericed by their yellowish-cinereous
sqoammation, which readily distinguishes them ttam the species of
Dihidia.

Onr material is too scanty to allow us to eliminate the directional
characters of this Southern genus, which, as intended here, will be rea-
dily recognized. The species are Sphinx Pamphiliut Cramer, Fl. 394,
fig. E, from Surinam, and Sphinx afflirta Groto, from Cuba. We ^ve
a figure of this latter species, already described by Mr. Gr^to in his
paper on the Cuban Sphtn^die, and which will be found to differ suffi-
ciently from Oramer's representation of S. pamphiliut, as to render the
Bupposition of their distinctiveness a tenable one.

3B of Mr. J. W. Weidemeyer for the
information that Mr. Walker writes thus concerning Daremma u«du-
h*a, Walk. C. B. M. " This species is a mistake ; it has been newly
identified as a dwarfed and slightly aberrant specimen of Sphinx
Brontes." Since we regard the "Mucrosiia Brontes f" Walker as

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based OD specimenH of Dr. Clemens' Ceratomia repentiniit, which is in
our opinion stmctnrally distinct from Ceratomia qundricornu Harris,
we are led to propose thst Mr. Walker's genos be retained for this
species, which dtffere from the allied genera here cited, in the rednced
caputal aod prothoracic parts, characters which altj it to Ceratomia Har-
ris, and which, perhaps, occasioned Dr. Clemens' refeTcnce. Since.uoder
the circumstances, it would hardly be possible to satisfactorily identiiy
this species from Mr. Walker's description of it as Dareitima undulota,
we have retained the trivial name proposed by Dr. Clemens, though
posterior in poiot of time. We have adopted the views of Mr. Grote on
the synonymy of this species, which has been strangely confused hitherto
by authors with Drurj's Sphittx hrontet.
OBritomia aiajjMt.

We do Dot comprehend Br. Clemens' citation of Hllbner, as authority
for Ceratomia quadricoraia Harris, unless it is a confusion arlsiag from
the initial letter placed by Dr. Harris after his new species, in the
" Catalogue of N. Am. Sphinges" and elsewhere. To oar knowledge
Hiiboer never desciibed the present species, but it is acceptably figured
as Agrius Amyotor by Hilbner in the " Sammlung, Ezot. Schm."
Hubner could hardly have given this species a trivial name drawn from
larval characters, since these could scarcely be known to htm. He re.
garded the species as belonging to the genus Agriut, erected in IS16
in the " Verzei chaise." Since this cannot be accepted, the term Cera-
tomia, proposed by Harris in 1839, must be retained for the geous,
which is represented by a single species of common occurrence in the
Atlantic District, and for which, following the lawof priority, we must
retain the specific name under which Httbner has figured it.
Sphinx shanl*.

A similar error has been made by both Mr. Walker and Dr. Clemens
in the synonymy of this species, described as S. cinerea hy Dr. Harris,
as in the case of Guratomia qwidrteornU Harris, above stated. Hilb-
ner 's figure is quite recognizable, and executed with the accustomed
felicity which characterizes the illustrations in the " Sammlung Exot.
Schmmetl-erlioge." Hllbner refers the species to his genus Lethia,
erected in the " Verzeichniss," and which term may yet be used for
the species here included under Sphinx, should Linnsens' generic term
be used in a different sense from that in which later authorities re-
gard it.

HTLOIOUB.

The species here included under thisgeneric term, we are led to consider

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as congenerical with Sphinx piaattri Lino, of Europe, a species which
is typical of Hiibner's genas Bjfhicug, erected in the " Verzeiofaniss."
Mr. Walker has included these species ander Anceryx Boisd.^ which,
we consider, contains two distinct genera ; for the first we retain the
present term, while the second has been nlready separated under the
generic term Ertnnyig bj Hiibner in 1816, and adopted by Mr. Qrote
in hia paper already cited. Dilophonota Burmeistcr, is a simple syno-
nym of Erinnyii Hiibner, composed of the same species, and contain-
ing consonant material, which is not the case with Anceryx Boisd., as
adopted by Mr. Walker. Since Abbot's figure of S. coni/erarum
Smith, does not correspond with the Northern species described as
Ellema HarrigH by Dr. Clemens, and which latter species seems respect
lively the Sphinx mni/erarum of Harris and Anceri/x coni/emrum of
Mr. Walker, we keep the two names separate, leaving the matter to
fiiture elucidation, the readier, that tbere is a doubt on our minds that
Dr. Glemena' species is really congenerical with Hifloknt pinagtri,
though probably but one species should be here considered. While
Dr. Clemens describes Sphinx cmii/rrarum from Abbot's figure, he
adds: "From 8. H. Scudder, Canada, near Buffalo, N. ¥.'' This
refereuce would seem to indicate that the species had been identified,
which we presume, however, is not the case.

BrianjU EUo.

In a " Catalogue des Insectes recueillis a la Guyane Francaise — par
M. A. Fauyel, Mcmbre de la Soci^t^ Entomobgique de France, etc —
five species of Sphingidse are enumerated, chiefly remarkable for tho
extraordinary synonymy retained by the author. Among them is a
" DeUephUa Helio Boisd,," which is probably to be understood as re-
ferring to the present species.

In concluding these Notes, we would commend the descriptions of
the larvae of certain species of North American Sphingidse, given by
Mr. Lintner in the pages of the Proceediugs, expressing the hope that
these will be continued until the larvse of all the accessible species
shall have been described. This will greatly assist in defining the
limits of groups and geaera, many of which are as yet imperfectly pre-
scribed.

In the present "Catalogue" we have endeavored to make the syno-
nymy as exhaustive as was possible, aided by the good offices of Mr.
Stephen Calverley and Mr. E. T. Cresson. The genera we have re-
tained appear to us to contain consonant material, while we have indi-

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eated in cert&in instHDOes, via: Pirigonia and Cheerocampa, the exist-
ence of groups and gpeoies, which eeem to make orltioal dissectionsl
stndiea and oompariBons neeeesacy to deeide whether these do not, id
ftot, efibrd distinct generic types. Since Mr. Walker compiled the
Bynonymy of the North American SphingidCB in 1856, do work hu
appeared to our knowledge, on either aide of the Atlantic, whioh hu
entered into the synonymy to any original extent, and while we tmat
that in the present Paper we have improred upon the ardnooa labors
of the English Eotomol<^ist, there nndoabtedly remain certsia poiots
to be elucidated and, perhaps, some citations to be added. Thesererer
study of the mouograpbiat will fiod in the North American repreeen-
tatires of this interesting Family, a printable and, as yet, an nnhar-
rested field.

The following species we regard as doabtM, for the Beveral reasons
appended to the citetionB:

" Xacnglataa TTietia, Boiid., Ann. Soo. EnL Fr. tf«m. Ber."

This citation, given by Dr. Clemens withoat fortber reference to the
Species, is all that we know, of what is probably a Galifomian species,
hitherto nadeacribed. It is improbable that it belongs to the gcnos
Maerogloita, since, properly speaking, this has not hitherto occurred
in North America. Bearing in mind the T^^e sense in which thu
generic term baa been used by Dr. Boisdnval, it is profitless to hasard
any conjecture in this respect,

•'Sphiia Japix, Cramor, £xot ToL 1, p. 13T, pi. 6T, fig. C."

Thb species has not been d^covered since Cramer wrote. The local-
ity gtTea by Cramer of New York, is probably incorrect, nolese the
. groaa figure disguises one of onr familiar species.

-Perigoniauttdata, Walker, C. B. M. Lop. PL 8, p. 103."

This species Is ereoted upon a fragmentary specimen (abdomen and
hind wings wsndag) in the British Museum, reoeivcd from Jamuca,

"Deil^ikita oxybaphi, Cletnens, 1. o. p. 1*S."

This species is described from a larva feeding upon the exotic plant
" Ox^baphm nyciagenew." Under the circamstancea it aeems impro-
per to include the name in the present Catalogue, since the species oaD-
not be said to be fairly established.

"Sphinx ckiTMi, Drurj, £zoL Tol. 1, p. M, pi. ifl.fig. 3."

The specimeoB described us " Ch^Tocumpa rkirtm," by Mr. Walker
in the C. B. M., seem to belong to the species figured very acceptably
by Cramer under the specific name of Nechui, and to which latter ^ure,
Cuban specimens, examined by us, accurately correspond. Dmr3r's
figure difi'ers in the color of the body and in the shape and coloration of

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the primaries, bo that it seems better to retain Cramer's name for the
Bpeoiea, waiting for l&i^r material, which might develop a variation
oorrespondiDg with Drury'a figure and description.

" Charocamjia Oudaasina, CtemeDB, 1. a. p. laD."

The habitat of this apeoiee is unknown.

" Qurroeampa dranaa, Clemens, 1. c p. IM."

Sphinx drajicai Cramer, as before remarked, is stated by the origi-
nal illoBtrator of the species, to be from the " ladee Orientales." The
Bpeoiea does not seem to have been re-discovered since Cramer wrote,
oertainly not irom the West Indies.
"FaiAylia Igfneia, Clemena, 1. e. p. 1G9."

This species is probably distinct from P.ficm, and, in this event,
§hoald retain the name proposed by Dr. Clemens, who anppoaed the
specimen described to b« the male of Linnnns' species.

"Sphiia; teyrOH, Cruner, Vol. t, p. S3, fig. SOI,"

The specimens determined as Anceri/x Scyrcm, by Mr. Walker in the
British Museum, probably belong to E. rimona Grot«. Cramer's figure
is t«o defective to hazard oaght bnt conjecture as to the apeoies in-
tended.

"ilyiineKa ZIjnuEM, Hnlmer, Zutr., 3(es. Hnnd., p. 19, flgi. Ul, Ul.''

This species, cited by Mr. Walker as a doubtful synonym to "Ance-
ryxplebeia," and by Dr. Clemens to "Dolba Hylttut" is from Bahia
(Brazil) and, judging fh>m the as usual excellent figures of EUbner,
represents a totally distinct species, hitherto undiscovered within the
ge(^;raphioal limits considered in the present "Catalogue."

SBRATA.

For "Chterocampa," wherever we have used it ounelvee, read "Chc»-
rooampa."

Page 160, line :il, for "Am. Soc. Ent. Fr. t. 8. Sleme Ser. 32," read
"Ann- Soc. Gnt. Pr. t 3, Sieme ser. Bull. p. ZxxiL (1865.)"

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OF PETTOFBAOIO TAXUnZB AVS FHTTOFEAOIO BFE0IE8,
with Nouirki an th« Uftlt^ at Oslorfttioii In IumU.

BY BEN J. D. WALSH, M. A.

Patana Ministba, Drurj. (Lepidoptera.)
MeBsra. Grote & RobinsoD {Pror,. &e. IV. p. 491) seem to be of opi-
nion, that the black larva fouod on the hickory may produce n different
Bpecica of Dalana from the yellow-necked and striped larva found on
the oak, the apple, tus. The objection to this hypothesis is, that a larva
intermediate between these two tbrms, vii: with the longitudinal stripes
but without the yellow neck, occurs, as I have already stated, (Pmc.
&o. III. p. 403) both on the hickory and on the oak. Mr. Lintner
indeed tells me, that from the blaek larva found on the hickory he
reared what he coDsiders as the D. contractu of Walker; but from this
same black larva I myself reared the normal form of mmiitra, (ibid.')
and also other forma which approximate in some of their charactera-
towards fontracta Walker and towards pergpicua Gr. Rob. In foot I
have little doubt that both these last so-called species are mere varieties
of minigtra, based upon estreme speoimens. For the distinctive cha-
racters, which are assigned to each of them, are not found exclusively
in one set of specimens bred from one kind of larva, hut occur promis-
cuously, with all the iutermediale grades, sometimes in one set of spe-
cimens, sometimes in another, as I shall now proceed to show.

According to Walker as quoted by Morris {Syiifip. p. 247) Datina
contracta differs chiefly from D. miniitra, 1st, in having narrower front
wings; 2nd, in the brown wing-bands being edged csternally with
whitish-tawny; 3rd, in the second wing-band being nearer the first on
the hind border of the wing. As to the Jirsi distinctive charaoEer, I
have before me, o Fitch's ^ure ofmtniiitrit, (If. Y. Rep.l. PI. iv. 3,)
b Harris's figure of minietra, {Zfij. Inn. PI. vi. 6,) c 1 % and dl $ bred
by myself from the normal yellow-necked larva found on the oek, e and
/2 Sandy and A 2$ bred from the black larva found on the hickory,
and tone captured 9 - On the most careful measurements of all these,
I find that, making the extreme breadth of the front wing iOO, its pro-
portional length is in a 191, in i 192, in c 195, in b 200, in g 202, in h
208, in e 211, in / 212, and in d 213. Evidently, therefore, thia cha-
racter is too variable, and connected by too many intermediate gradea,
to be of specific value. As to the tec/nd distinctive character, it is ab-
sent in a, b and h, faint in c, moderate in e and obvioos in d, /, ij and i.

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Here again, therefore, there are bio many intermediate grades to make
the character worth anything. As to the third diatinctive character,
making the length of the wing 100 in each of the above, the propor-
tional distance of the first wing-band ^m the second wing-band on the
hind border of the wing, from centre to centre, is in d, t and ^ 0, in e
7, in 1 and A 9, in / 10, in 6 15, and in a 16. In other words this
character is proportionally three times as strong io some speoimene as
in others, with intermediate grades irom one to another. Id pertpicua
Gr. Rob. this proportional distance is eqnal to nothing, the first wing-
band being confluent behind with the second. Yet, although this seems
the most remarkable of the abnormal characters concentrated In per-
tpicua, it is not ennmerated by Orote & Robinson among the distinctive
charaoters of that so-called species. It may he added here, that Walker
gives it as a character of minitlra, but not of contractu, that " the space
between the first and second wing-band is a little darker than the wing
elsewhere," whereas Fitch calls this form variety e of mxnittra, and in
fact this character is absent in a, b and h, very faint in c and e, mode-
rate in (/ and g, and ubvions in i and /; and is said likewbe to occur
in contpwva Or. Rob. Here again, therefore, it is impossible to draw
a definite line anywhere. Moreover Walker gives it as a seznal oh^
racter of the % miautra that it has one disoal brown spot, and of the
9 that it has Ueo discal brown spots in the front wing. Whereas it is
proved by the specimens now before me, that the presence or absence
of one or both discal spots is not a sexual character at all. Evidently
this author has described, not the species, but the individual, and must
have worked on a very limited number of specimens.

According to Messrs. Orote & Robinson D. coTivpicua "may be
quickly distinguished from the hitherto described species of the genus,
\»t by its more yellow color, 2W by the narrow anterior wings, Zrd by
the trunaverse lines not bordered with paler shades, Ath by the pro-
duced apices [of the front wings], bih by the obsolete irrorations [of
the front wings], 6(A by the wider terminal space and the more crowded
transverse lines." {Proc. &«. IV". p. 490.) To take up these charao-
ters in order, \>t in a colored impression of Mr. Orote's fignre of per-
spicaa, obligingly furnished to me by that gentleman himself, the color
of the front wing is only a shade or two yellower than in c and g, and
Fitch correctly states that in miniUra " the fore wings vary from pale
buff yellow to russet and auburn brown." {N. Y. Rfp. I. p. 239.)
2nd. Taking Mr. Orote's figure oi perspicaa as correct, and making the
extreme breadth of its front wing 100, its proportional length is only

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208, or oonBiderably let* io proporttoo, iustexl of mtteh more, tlian it is
in e,/kDd d, (See above ander the firat diatiDotive character of con-
tracta.') Zrd. See above nnder the eecood diBtiootire character at eon-
tracta. 4th. In the %are of pertpicua the apes gf the right front
wing IB Bcarcelj produced at all, and that of the left front ving bnt very
Blightly. In h they are prodoced fdlly aa mnch ae in the above figure,
and in t the right wing m produced a great deal more, with a deep ex-
eavation behind the apex, and the left wing not at all, with no excaw
tioD whatever behind it. bth. In d the irrorations are obsolete, and
anbobsolotfl in c. Gth. Making the length of the front wing 100, tfa«
proportional distance from the middle of the terminal fringe t» the
middle of the subterminal wing-band, from centre to centre, ia in ^ 15,
in 1 IT, in a and b 1», in e 19, in c, d and f 20, and in A 22. In eon-
tyicva, aocordiag to Mr. Grote's own ^;ure, it is only 21, or Um, in-
stead of much more, than it ib in k. Consequently all the above dis-
tiuclive characters are ooonected by intermediate grades, and therefore
worthless. Neither is it true, as is stated in the desoriptjdn oi prrwpi-
eaa, that miwUtra differs from pertpicua in the brown color of the an-
terior port of the thorax always " extending unicoloronsly over the pro-
thorax." For in d and g the anterior part of the brown patch ia dis-
tinctly femgi nous, and in /and t it is less obviously so. Indeed Flteh
desoribea miniitra as having always " the fore part of the thorax bright
orange lyr tawny yellow, this color being deeper or brownish towards Hb
posterior edge." Lilie Mr. Walker, Measrs. G-rote & Robinson seem to
have had bat a very poor supply of material to work on.

On the whole, even in the few Bpecimons now before me, the above
characters are so inextricably intermixed, that if contracla and pertpi-
eua are distinct species, then every one of the seven specimens before
me must also be a distinct species. The truth of the matter seems
to be, that minittra ia a very variable species, and that collectors, as
they usually do, have seized hold of a few extreme varieties and for-
warded them to systenuttiste, who have thus been deceived into treating
those extreme varieties as species. Dntana eontpkua is confessedly
founded upon a single specimen, and we have but to refer to Dr. Fitch's
Vanetta Ldntnerii and NathalU Irene, in order to perceive how dan-
gerous it is to found new species upon solitary specimens of variable
species. As (o the former species, Dr. Morris concedes that it is pro-
bably a variety of Antiopa. As regards the latter, a few years ago
NathalU lole swarmed near Rock Island ; and I took in profusion in
oompany with each other all the inlermediaie grades between the nor-

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mal Jb/e aad Fitch's Irene, and many otber yarietieB besides. Indeed
Mr. Edwards, to whom I have forwarded most of the above varieties,
expressly asserts that " Irene Fitch is simply loU with a trifling varia-
tion." (Morris Synop. p. 351.) Just in the same way Bri Harris
made five species ont of the very variable Orthopterons Tetrix omata
Say, and Dr. Fit«h has made three species of tbe Homopterons genus
Athynanu* — variabilis, fenentratut and minor — out of a single wonder-
fully variable one, which I have found in profn«an on tbe same birch
tree in tbe three forms quoted as species by Dr. Fitch, together with
all the intermediate varieties, and enough others, not noticed by Dr.
Fitch, to make a dozen species as good as bis.

Taking all the facts into consideration, I do not think that we are
entitled to assume that the black larva found on the Hickory is what I
have called a Phytopbagic Species — i. e. that it has ceased to intorcross
commonly in the imago state with tbe normal form found on otber trees
— bnt only that it is a Phytopbagic Variety. In the course of an in*
definitely long time, it may perhaps cease to intorcross with the normal
form ; and then by tbe Laws of Inheritance the distinotive obaracters,
which are now connected by intermediate grades, will cease to be so
coDnected, and tbe Hickory form will become to all intents and pur-
poses a true (Phytopbagic) species. We find a good exemplification
of this stage in the process in the following species.

Halesidota* TE88BLIM.R1S Sm. Abb. (— Antiphola Walsh) and

H. HAaaisii Walsh (=tf:ss£LLABI8 Harris non Sm. Abb.)

(Lepidoptera.)

I have this year carefully compared several dozen larvae of the above

two (Phytopbagic) species, and find that tbe mature and nearly mature

*Aa to the orthographj of tbia genua, Mr. Qrote haa the following remarks :-.-
"Mr. Walker, in transcribing the generic name Erinnyii from HUbner, has
altered it to Srinnys^ar vrAatreratm Iknov not. As is the cnaa with ffaligidota
and Amplyplena, which read Hahaidola and AmhlypUrvM in the Cat. B. U., /
pr«um<,i( u tAe remit of a timplt irror of tmiucription." (JVoe. Ac. V. p. 79.)
Clearly, in all these three caaes, it is do casual error of tranacription, but a rea-
tification of IlUbner's bad Greek. Authors of course are at perfect liberty to
coin gibberish generic names; and so far as my own private tastes are con-
cerned, I infinitely prefer a good, sonorous, gibberish name, such as Bemhtt,
CUuabut, Agabut, Datana, Sadata, Ac, to the general run of would-be Greek ones.
But when a generic name ia manifestly intended to be Greek^and more espe-
cially when a Greek derivation is printed along with it, so as to prevent us,
which we should otherwise often do, from considering it as gibberish — moat
e that they are at liberty to spell it correctly, and reduce it to

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individuals of eacb differ coostaDtly bjthe characters ^ven Id the fol-
lowing Table. The v(jry yoang larvse. i. e. .15— ,20 inch long, are
scarcely distiDguiehable, beiog each of them without any peacilis, and
each of them having the head yellowish- white, but rather yellower Id
the former than in the latter, and the dursai integument yellowish- white.
with the warts brown-black as in the mature Harrisii. But so «oon as
ever they obtain pencils, which is probably after the first moult, the
two middle pencils on segment 3 are invariably block id teueUarit and
invariably orange-color in Barrisii, although occasionally iu individuals,
which are less than half grown, the other colored pencils incline more
or leas towards white. The color of the hair is, as I formerly supposed,
normally white in ffarrisn, but a few individuals occur with the hair of
a dirty white like that of the normal leefJlarit. On the second seg-
ment there is in ffarraii but a single distinct white pencil under each
orange oue, the second white one, which is very distinct in teuellarii,
being confounded with the long hairs overhaugiug the head. (See
I^oc. &o. III. p. 414.) And the white pencil on segment 12 is much
less obvious in Harri»ii than in testellarts, aud generally almost obsolete,
being confounded with the long hairs overhanging the anus.

(omething like s grammatical fono. Some jean ago tbe BdttorE of Silliman's

Journal, having occasion to rectifj' the orthography at one ot Prof. Oven'B sci-
entific leriDB, which wae manifestlj inlanded for Greek, observed that it was
right and proper to do >o, boweTer long and uniiersally the term had been in

Even authors who maintain, that under no oircuniBtances is it allowable to
change a single letter in a publiehed name, unlesB that name be preoccupied,
do not alwajB practice what the; preach. For example, Oaten Sacken, who
•TOWS this doctrine aa the true sciantillc faith, has recently omitted the letter g
(quercus) in the specific names of a whole host of the O/nipiikc of the Oak, pro-
fessedly "because this addition seems perfectlj uselesB." (Proc. tc. IV. p. 314.}
It maj' perhaps be useless, as applied to the inttci, but a« applied to the ffoU,
which ia uBuall; deaignated by the specific name of the gall-maker, it seema
to me to answer a very useful and desirable purpose, t. c to specify on what
genus of plants the gall grows. Otherwise who is to distinguish between the
CynipidouB gall " [Q.j tubicola 0. 8.," which grows on an Oak, and the Cecido-
myidous gall "Tubicola 0. 8.," which grows on a Hickory? But be tliia as it
may, if we have no right to change Ampl^tena, which is impure and barbar-
ous Greek, into Ambli^Urut, which is pure Qreeb and means " obtuse -wings,"
we certainly have no right to change C^ipa j./oriieomis, which is neither pre-
occupied nor grammatically objectionable, iota Qyaipa /orticornit. We might
just as reasonably change such elegant specific names as aceri/olitlla (mapla-
leafllug} and rXo\fructella (sumftch-truitling) iato/olitila aai/ructctla.

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tMHlUril, mature larra.

H. HuTllil, mature larva.

on wgmenta 3 &nil 3 j
The two pencils on seg- 1

black,
greeniah-black,

black,
Ueck,

rufiiuB.
yell owlah -white, with the
warto and a ring round
eachapiracla brown black.

orange color.
milk-white.

Now if, in the imagoe of Buy two insects, we fonod constant distinc-
tive charactere one-qoarter as strong as the above, no entomologist
would hesitate for a moment to pronounce them distinct Epecies. For
example, Colias PhilodweQodt. is universally, and with justice, allowed
to be distinct from C. Evrt/thetne Bdv., although the only constant
character that separates them is, that the first has sulphur-yellow wings
and the last orange-coloTed wings. Yet how slight is the difierence
between sulphur-yellow and orange-color in these two species, when
compared with the difference between the black pencils of te»»elltirit
and the orange-colored or milk-white pencils of ffarrmi! And how can
we consistently rely upon a single constant character to separate two
imagoe, if we refuse to acknowledge the validity of four constant dis-
tinctive characters to separate two larvse ?

It is easy to say that one of these two forms is a mere " larval vari-
ety" of the other; (see iVoc. 4c. III. p 536;) bat thosewho nseauch
language misunderstand the very meaning of the term " variety."
True it in that many larvee vary astonishingly; hut then in their case,
as in eveiy ordinary variety, we find the intermediate grades also.
While here, as regards the four distinctive characters pointed out above,
out of scores of specimens of the mature or nearly mature larvse that I
have examined, I have not found a single one that presented any inter-
mediate grade whatever.

No entomolo^t hesitates to consider two imagoe as distinct species,
merely because the larvse are nndistingnishable. In many fJimiliea,
indeed, e. g. C^/nipida, ApiJtt and Mutcida, very many larvas bear so
close a resemblance to each other, that he would be a bold man who
pretended to distinguish them. Why then refuse to consider two well
cbaracterited larrsB, like letiellari* and Harrimi, as distinct species,
merely because their imagos are un distinguishable ? Why lay all the
stress upon the characters of the imago, and none at all upon those of
the larva or pupa? This is as irrational, as if an entomologist were to
cut off and throw away the wings and legs of every imago which he is
studying, and persist in olasBiffing it from the consideration of its body

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alone; roach in the same way aa Conohologieta used formerly to neglect
&ad undervalne all the Boft parts of a Mollosk, and decide on its syste-
matic affioitieB only from the olmraotera of its shell.

But although it ia difficult to assign any good reason for making the
imago the sole crit«rioD of specific identity, it maybe readily nnderstood
how the practice originated. The imago is easily preserved so as to
retain its characters unimpaired ; the larva is preserved with difficulty,
and frequently cannot be preserved at all without losing its shape and
its color. The imago may be collected vicariously, and studied in the
closet a thousand miles from its habil&t ; in order to study the larva,
the naturalist mnst, in many casee, go forth personally into the woods
and the fields, and cootemplale the living animal on the very spot of
ground where, and at the very time of year when, it is to be met with.
Hence the im^o with many eystematists has become everything, the
larva and pupa nothing. But if it so happened that larvm were easily
preserved in cabinets, and images with difficulty, then it is not impro-
bable that closet-naturalists would neglect and undervalue the charac-
ters of the imago, just as many of them now neglect and undervalue
those of the larva. Oeoera and species would then be characterized
almost exclusively from the consideration of the larva, just as they now
are characterized almost exclusively from the consideration of the imago ;
and entomologists would be no more disconcerted at finding two dis-
tinct species undistinguishable in the imago, than they now are at find-
ing two distinct species undistinguishable in the larva state.

On the general principle that, whenever two insects differ by cour
slant and well-marked characters in any of their states, whether egg,
larva, pupa or imago, they must be apeoifieally distinct, unless they be
the sexes or other dimorphous forms of one and the same species, the
case of tesiellaru and Harrisii might be rested here. But there is ad-
diljonal evidence of their specific distinctness. The former occurs upon
a great variety of trees — oak, basswood, elm, hackberry, hickory, thorn,
soft maple, and, according to Abbot, on beech, hornbeam, and plum —
but never, as I have this year carefully noticed, upon sycamore, (pla-
tanus ;} the latter occurs exclusively upon sycamore. At first sight we
might account for these facts, upon the hypothesis that the ooloration&l
peculiarities of Sarruu are due to its feeding upon sycamore; and that
if a young fe»selliiris were fed upon sycamore, it would gradually, as it
approached maturity, pass into HarrUii; in other words, that the two
so-called species are mere Phytophagic Varieties. But esperiment de-
monstrates the fidlaciousness of this supposition. I have this year suc-

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OMded in foroiog two oat of twenty-fieTen teittliarit to feed apoo syo-
fun<B;e for aboat forty days, till they finally Bpnn up; yet to the v«ry
last they retained all their own distinctive charaoterB, and showed soC
the slightest dispoeition to assame those of the other species. Wh&t is
very remirkable, out of forty-three Harritn that I fed this year npon
oak, not a single one lived to spin np ; bnt so long as they remained
alive in the breeding-cage, which was on the average about five days,
the only approximation that they made towards UueUari* was, that their
hurs (not their pencils) generally became of a dirtier white.

In order to judge of the effects of food upon these two insects, I have
this year tried the following experiments under precisely similar con-
ditions, and with every possible precaution to guard against error. \tt.
I fed upon oak a lot of teMellari* found upon Oak, in Breeding-cage
No. 3. 2nd. I fed npon Oak a lot of ieuellaris found partly on Thorn,
partly on Bssswood, and partly on Hickory, in Breeding-cage No. 4.
8rd. I fed upon Sycamore a lot of testellarit found partly on Oak and
partly on Basswood, in Breeding-cage No. 5. 4tA. I fed upon Oak
two distinct lots oi ffarritii found upon Sycamore, in Breeding-cages
Nos. 6 and 7. An accurate record was kept of the phenomena pre-
sented hy each lot, which, for the sake of brevity and for the conveni-
ence of comparisons, has heen reduced to the folIowiDg tabular abitraot.
About three-fourths of the larvaa in each lot were quit« young, ranging
from .30 to .50 inch in length, and scarcely any were admitted that
appeared to he more than half grown.

HALE8ID0TA TE88ELLARIB.

Number of
ItUTB Ted.

Pereenuge found in ATerage* noraber of
Br«it]n(«aaB dsja when foand

{deiid miseing spun np dwd miseing >pnii ap

No.3B«iRiii«clo
HolfiShLBedon

nO*l[

W

ua M.o SS.0 6.0 le.i 3».9
8e.» is.i iT.i ss.T

11.1 »1.6 7.4 M 6.7 MJ)

HALE31D0TA HABRISII.
No.SShiRedOD^toOitk 11 21 11 "'^ I >^^ I " |l ^-^ I ^''> I "

*I give hers and elseirhere what ie, etrictly speaking, the average number.
and not the medium number. The two things tire often confounded together,
bnt ace quite different. Far example, if one larva dies in i 6»ja and three die
in K dajs, tbe average number of days iB seven, but the medium number is six.
I auspecl that certain writers, who profeus to give the average dimensions of
inaecls, give, in reality, nothing but the medium dimenaiouB. To calculate the
average dimensions of forty or fifty epeoimens, requires that every one of the
forty or fifty should tie measured. To calculate tbe medium dimensions, all that
ia necessary is to measure the smallest aud the largest.

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Hence we may conclude I«t, tliat tettellarit may, without very ma-
teri&l iDJnry to iUt health, be shifted on to Oak from the other trees on
which it naturally feeda; for although, of thoM that were retained on
Oak, a mnoh lai^r percentage spun up than of those that were shifted
on to Oak from other trees, yet a oonsidersble percentage of the former,
and none whatever of th^ latter, died in confinement. 2nd. That Syc-
amore is not a congenial food fot te»Kllarit ; for a considerable percent-
age of those fed on Sycamore died in confinement, and but a small per-
centage spun up. 3rd. That Oak is abhorrent to Harruii as a food-
plant — It may seein strange at the Sret view, that teuellarig oan be
compelled to feed npoo Sycamore up to the time of itB assumtng the
pupa state, and Harritii cannot be compelled to feed for any length
of time upon Oak ; but when we consider that In a state of nature the
former is polypbagous and the latter monophagous, onr surpriBe will
cease. It is not that HarrieU does not eat the oak-leaves furniabed to
it — for the quantity of excrement on the floor of the Breeding-cage at
each shifting and cleaning out proved that it must eat them — but that,
having eaten them, it either perishes of disease superinduced by the
unnatural food, or bores its way out in despair through the miltinet of
the Cage, or devours its own brethren in detkult of its natural food-
plant.

It will be observed from the Table that in Nos. 5, 6 and 7 the ave-
rage numberof days when the larvsewere fiinnd missing is small, being
only a little over fonr days; whereas in Nos. 8 and 4 it is large, being
a little over sixteen and a half days. The reason of this difierence is,
that in the former, as soon as the larvie were placed on the leaves, they
commenced endeavoring to escape; whereas in the latter, they mostly
staid contentedly on the leaves anm they were lull-grown, when many
escaped from the Breeding- cage, probably in search of s more conve-
nient place in which to spin up,

On the whole — however disagreeable it may be to systema^sts to
concede, that two perfectly distinct insects may be an distinguishable in
the imago state, and consequently that something more is necessary, to*
wards the definitive establishment of specific distinctions, than the mere
oompariuon of cabinet specimens of the imago— we must, I think, in
view of all the above facts, deoide that tetteUari* and JJdrrmi do not
belong to the same species. If, indeed, we first lay it down as a law,
that all forms that are undistinguishable in the imago are identical,
then all such facts as the above will go for nothing. But to do this is
merely begging the question and arguing in a vicious circle. We might

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just aa reasooably firat lay it down as a law, that all ima;^ that have
ftbdomens of the same siae, shape a.Dd color are ideatical, aad then tor-
ture Nature to fit the Procrustean bed, which we have predetennined in
onr own ininds that she shall lie npon, whether or nay.

There ia a partial parallel to the case of these two HaUtidota in tha
"alternate generations" of certain Badiata. "It is curious," we are
told, " that while very dissimilar Jelly-fishes may arise from almost
identical Hydroids, we have the reverse of the proposition, in the fact
thsit Hydroids of an entirely distinct charsoter may produce similar
Jelly-fishes." (^Seande Studiei by E. C. and A. AgasaiE, p. 13 and
see p. 75.) Here two given lines either diverge after converging, or
converge after diverging. But in ffalesidota the lines first converge,
then diverge, and then converge again. For it hu^ been shown, that
the very young larvaa of teuellarii and SarrCxu are very nearly or quite
nndistiDguishable, that the mature larvffi differ as widely as any two
species of the same genus can well do, and that finally the imagos be-
come absolutely un distinguishable.

On the supposition that teuellarii and Barritii sprang from the same
pre-existing species, and consequently that they were primordially un-
distingttishable in the larva state, as they still are in the imago; we
may account for their larval differences by assuming, that the colon-
tional peouliaritiee of the two larvse afford them a partial protection
against birds and against ichneumon -flics and other predaceous insects,
and were gradually assumed on the Darwinian theory of Natural Selec-
tion. We know how many lepidopterous larvse are partially protected
from birds &c. by simulating twigs or the bark of the tree on which
they live ; and it is not at all impossible that the orange pencils &c. of
Harrisn and the black pencils of teueiiarU may be mistaken by birds
and insects for a process of the particular plants on which they feed.
If we reject this assumption, we can only attribute the differences of
the two larvie to what ^Darwin calls '' Divergence of Character," Huper>
induced by breeding "in-and-in" for ages; in the same manner as ge-
ographical varieties eome to differ in process of time from one another
and from the original type.

Sfhinqicaupa DI8TIOMA Walsh and Dhtocahpa BiCOLoa Harris.
(Lepidoptera.)

Having been fortunate enough to meet this year with three larvse
exactly similar te that which I have described as D. hicnlur, (^Pfoc. ko.
III. p. i'it,) I bad hoped to ecAve definitively the qoestjon of what imago
they would produce. Being confined, however, in a cage with millinei

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ndea, they all three bored throngb the millinet and escaped; and I
DOW lecoUect tbat the thirty or forty Dtyocampa, that I have bred id
differentyear§, wereallbredinaci^ witbeideHof wire-gauEe; altbough,
eingularly enough, I bred my S. dixtigma in a millinet cage, and not a
single larva of some twenty that I bad on hand, hored its way out.
The above question, therefore, mnst remain for the present in abey-
ance; but I clearly ascertained that tbe hicolw larva is not the Imma-
ture form of some other Dryocampa — ttigma or rubu-uniia for example
— for all my three specimens retained their peculiar coiorational and
structural characters up to the date of their disappearanoe.

AaHoPALca bobisi^ Forst. Walsh and A. pictus Drury WaMi.

(Coleoptera.)

Tbe larva of pictu» has been fully described and figured by Osten
Saoken. (iVoc. &c. I. pp. 121-2.) That of rp&iwiie.BS I have already
observed, has never yet been fully described. On Juno 29 I procured
six of them, .55 — .75 inch long, from a branch of locust one and a half
nch in diameter, which they had completely honeycombed, heartwood
and all. They differ in the following particulars from pictim as de-
scribed by Osten Sacken :

l8(. They have very distinct, though small, brown-black legs, the first
pair placed halfway from the centre of the sternum to the lateral edge,
and upon that fleshy, traneverse fold behind the prosternum and
separated hy a furrow from it, which is said by Erichson to occur
in all Ceramhycidee ; tbe third pair on the metasternum in range with
the firat; the second pair on the mesoetemum considerably inside
of a line connecting the first and third. This latter arrangement is
probably due to the thoracic spiracle being, as in all Cerambycidx as
distinguished from LamUdm, located on the mesothorax and so crowd-
ing the leg inwards. Each leg is conical, not quite .02 inch long, with
a basal diameter of over .01 inch, and S-jointed, with the last joint a
little prolonged in a slender thorn. According to Erichson as quoted
by Osten Sacken, all Longicorn larvse, except those of Lamiidx, "have
feet, which, however, are sometimes so small as to be perceptible only
when magnified eveninla^e-sized larvae." {Proc.&c. I. p. 119.) Yet
not only does Osten Sacken describe and figure the larva of pictm as
apod, but he expressly says that " the larva of Arhopalus has no feet,
although belonging to the Cerambycidse." {Ibid.} Can it be possible,
that of two such closely allied species as robinim and pictas, one is apod
in the larva state and the other has distinct feet? Or are the feet mi-

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croBcopically minute in pictiu, m that they were iDftdvertetitly over-
looked by Oaten Sacken f *

ZtuJ. When alive these larvfe were not at all olavate in front, neither
were the thoracic segments flattened above and below, as the larva
ofpwlui is described and figured by Oaten Sacken, most probably from
alcoholic specimens. Yet atler being immersed in alcohol for three
and ahalf months, both these characters made their appearance, although
the prothorax is still, as compared with the middle abdominal joints,
only aa thirteen to eleven wide, even in the most strongly clavate spe-
cimens, whereas 0^ tea Sacken figures that of ^ictuf as in the proportion
of thirteen to seven. Since, however, he described the prothorax of
pictus as " twice broader than long," which is also true of robinim, the
above difference is probably due to his specimens having been preserved
in too strong alcohol, so as to shrivel up the abdomen unduly.

Srd. When recent, the prothorax is not '• brownish-yellow,'' but
whitish like the rest of the body, with four transversely arranged,
roundish, brow nish-yel tow, dorsal spots. In the alcoholic specimens,
the entire body assumes a more or less brownish tinge on the dorsal
and ventral surface, which is less obvioos laterally; but even then the
prothorax is usually no darker than the rest of the body.

Besides the above two (Phy tophagic) Species, there is a third species

*Biiron Oaten Sa«ken boa obligingly seat me one of the larrn from which his
deBcription was drawn, and which, u he BAye, was eommanicaled to him by Dr.
Horn, "along with the pupa and the receutly escaped imago;" and it absolutely
has DO feet at all and no vestiges at any feet, under the moat powerful lens.
How, even if we assume that Dr. Horn was miatAkeo aa to the identity of his
larva, which, as Baron Oaten Backen well suggests, can scarcely have been the
ease, to what imago coijld it pertain 1 If it pertained to any other Geramby-
cide — e. g. Clioa garganicnn Fabr. which is our commoneat hickory borer — then
there ia the same anomaly of a Cerarabycidous larva without any feet. If it
pertained to a, Lamiide — e. g. AfonoAnmnuf iigrinui DeGeer, which, according to
Dr. Fitch, commonly inhabits the hickory in Pennaylvania— then wo have the
other anomaly of a Lamiidoui larva with its thoracic spiracle, not where ac-
cording to Erichaon it ought to be, viz : in the fold between the pro. and meao-
thorax, which fold as it beara the front legs in robinvx muat neceasarily be
prothoracic aad not meaothoracic, but on the aide of the mesothorai as in Ce~
raa^yeuitE. For not only doea Oaten Sacken describe his larva aa having the
"spiraelea normal," but I see with my own eyea that iU thoracic apiracle is on
the aide of the meeothnrax. On the whole, I incline io believe that the larva
ol A. pictut ia really apod, and that of^. robinia really 6-foo(ed; but aa thia ia
to remarkable an anomaly, it would be very desirable to verify the facta by fur-
ther observations, Hr. Cyrua Tbomaa describea a larva found in locaat wood,
which he supposes to be that of A. robinicc, as having " aii very minute feet."
(TVons, m. Statt Agr. Soe. V. p. ISO.)— Dee. 1«, 1885.

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of Arhopalua — the tn/a^tut of LoConte, as kiudly determined for me
by that author himself — the % and 9 "f which are as much alike as

those of robiniie, and scarcely differ frofai my specimens of that spe-
cies % 9 , except in the yellow banda being nearly twice as wide and
the antepenultimate one at the tip of the elytra nearly thrice as wide,
and in the legs being brown-black instead of ferruginoua. With the
exception, however, of the antepenultimate one, the yellow bauds of
this species are no' wider than in Harris's figure of TohtnUe. {Inj. Int.
Fl. II. 10.) Besides the above colorational charaoteis, there is a very
slight, but oonstaDt, structural character which distinguishes in/au»tu»
both from pictus and from robinix. In the former % 9 the antennal
joints 2 and 3 are together \ — J thorter than joint 1 ; in the two Iatf«r
species % 9 they are ^guu^ to joint 1. Of in/au«fiM my friend Dr.Velie
took in the middle of September, 1864, eight % four 9 on the Platte
Birer in Colorado, near Baker's Ranch; and as both he and Dr. Parry,
the Iowa botanist, agree that ^ere were no trees but cottonwcods grow-
ing within a great many miles of that locality, the presumption is that
that insect inhabits the cottonwood. Id that case we have here a third
(Phytophagic) Species belonging to this group, which agrees with ro-
binix in all the six % characters that separate that species from jjic/ms,
(iVot. &c. III. p. 421,) and also in the time of the appearance of the
imago; hut differs £ 9 as specified above from pictut % 9 ^°^ roliinue
i 9 , and also in its food-plant.

Callidiuh antennatum Newman (=violacenm Enr ?) and C. ian-
THiNUM Lec. (Coleoptera.)

The former of these two very closely allied species lives in pine wood,
according to Harris, and comes out from the middle of May to the first
of June. (/"/■ /its. p, 100.) Of the latler, as determined by Dr. Le-
Conte himself, Dr. Velie took ten specimens in Nebraska in the month
of May in and on Red Cedar, which tree they were infesUng in enor-
mous numbers. Hence the two may be considered as Phytophagic
Species. lantMnum differs as follows from antennatum on comparison
with 2 1 1 9 of the tatter received by me from the Eastern States : —

lit. The length (ten specimens) is .39 — Ab inch instead of .55— .60
inch, or, according to Harris, .40— .60 inch.

2nd. The thorax is only one-third shorter than wide instead of one-
half shorter.

Zrd. The widest part of the thorax is a little behind the middle in-
stead of a little be/ore the middle.

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ith. The Eculptare above is, not onl; relatWel;, but absolutely
coareer, especial!; on the thorax.

5(A. On the pronotum % there is nosnbpolished dortal shield, bounded
laterally by a distinct unidentate stria. Dr. LeConte informs me that
this character is always met with in % anteimatum, and It is very con-
spicuous in both my % % . I hare been unable to ascertain, what are
the characters which are supposed to separate our anletinatum from the
European violaceum, which also feeds on pine, and with which it was
formerly confounded. The name seems to indicate that there is sup-
posed to be some difference in the siie or structure of the aotennEe.

CoNOTRACHELUS NENDPHAH Hbst. (Coleoptera.)
It has long been knowo that a race^of this insect inhabits the But-
ternut and Walnut, which is full one-half longer and wider than the
race which infests the Plum. I have met with numeroas specimens of
both, but never found any intermediate size. Say states, on the au-
thoiitj of Bartram, that this insect also " destroys the European Wal-
nut in this country," but does act notice any difference in the size of
the Walnut- in habiting race, I conceive that the two are Fhytophagie
Varieties or perhaps Species, differing from each other as do the two
races of Ckrt/iomela tcalaris Lee, which inhabit respectively the haaa-
wood and elm or the dogwood and plum. {Proe. &o. III. p. 403.)

DoRTPHORA 10-LiNEATA Say and D.JUNCTA 6enn. (Coleoptera.)
I have already, in the "Practical Entomologist" (No. 1), shown that
the former of these two Very closely allied species inhabits plants be-
longing to the botanical family Solanaceee, and especially the genua
Solanum ; while the latter most probably inhabits the Hickory, or at
all evenia does not feed on Solanum. We may therefore consider the
two as Fhytophagic species.

Typically there are on the thorax of each of these species eighteen
spots, arranged in the same very peculiar pattern, viz: two large, diver-
gent, elongate ones arranged side by side in the middle, and respec-
tively between and behind these a single minute one placed on the
dorsal line ; while on each side of this fonr-apotted pattern are seven
small spots, five of them on the hinder part of the thorax in a quincunx
narrowed in front, aod the other two before this qnincuni, scarcely
wider apart than the two hind spots of the quincunx, and obliquely ar-
ranged, so that the outer one of the two is always twice as far from the
anterior edge of the thorax as is the inner one. Now eighteen spots
may be arranged in a given trapezium in an almost infinite variety

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of differ«at patterae. If, then, these two species did not spring from
some pre-exiating form, but were created originally as distinct species,
how does it come ^bont that the same yery peculiar pattern is repeated
on the thorax of each F What poeeible Deceasit; in that case could
there be, for Nature to plagiarize from herself a merely ornamental de-
sign, when miliiona and millions of other designs might jost as well, for
anything we can see to the contrary, hare been selected ? I conld as
soon believe, with the old geologists, that dead fossil shells had been
created in the roCks, on purpose to deceive us into betieving that they
had oooe been alive, as that, out of the infinity of possible patterns, a
particular one had here been selected and imprinted upon two aborigi-
nally distinct species, with the manifest result of deceiving ns into con-
founding those two species together.

I have sud that there are (t/picaHif eighteen spots on the thorax (^
the above two species. Sometimes, however, six particular spots out of
the eight«en are some or all of them absent, the loom of the remaining
spots being still the same; and it b very remarkable, that in the two
species it is the same particular spots that are thus absent, via: the two
minute ones on the dorsal line and the central one of each i^uinounx,
which are often Bbsent^and the spot in each quinouux that abuts on the
hind angle of the thorax, which is but seldom absent. According to the
mathematical theory of ohances, this can scarcely be a merely fortui-
tous event; for the odds are enormously ^;ainst any one's happening
on the same partJoular six numbers, twice over, out of eighteen numbers.

It is sometimes the ease also, in both the above two species, that se-
veral pairs of the thoracic spots are confluent with each other. Now
we have only to imagine all of them confluent, and we get the thoracic
ornamentation found ID Oltri/iomelabifffb^ana K.hy, C, prxcebis Rogers,
G. elegans Oliv. and 0. exclamalionu Fabr., viz ; a dark-colored thorax
bordered laterally and in front with a pdle tint; and in C. scripta Fabr.,
C. interrupta Fabr,, 0. Ailonulis Fabr., and especially in C. multipuac-
fata Say, we find intermediate grades between the two forms. Nor is
this an entirely imaginary idea as applied to the genus Chrffgomela.
In a series of specimens of one species of this genus, interrupta Fabr.,
as I have already observed, (Froc. &c. III. pp. 228-9,) we find, as re-
gards the elytral markings, precisely the same gradations, from sixteen
dirk spots more or less partially confluent, to a uniform dark color bor-
dered laterally and behii;d by a pale tint. Nobody doubts that these
colorational varieties of the species interrupta have all proceeded from
a common origin. Why then should we be shocked with the idea, that

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the Bimllarlj different cotomtional forma of two each olowly tllied ge-
nera M Doryphora and Chrysomela have, t^B and ages ago, all pro-
ceeded from a common origin ?

Genus IcHNEUMOiT. (Hymenoptera.)
There ia another and a still stronger ease of what I have called the
" Unity of Coloration," which, as it is a very curious one, and does not
appear to have been hitherto noticed or elucidated by any author, I
may be excused for dilating on. Id feet, colurational characters such
as these, which prevail throughout several species or thronghont whole
genera, are usually neglected by those eatomologiata who occupy them-
selves in establishing new genera, because the oonimonly received opi-
nion is that genera must be founded, not upon colorational, bnt upon
atmoturiil characters; and by those who oocnpy themselves in describ-
ing new species, because, being found indifferently in many species,
they are of little or no value as specific distinctions. Yet the very cir-
cumstances, that cause them to be neglected by these two classes of
writers, are precisely those which render them of pre-eminent interest
to the philosophic naturalist.

The annexed figure represents — magnified about three diameters —
the front wing of any species of Ichneumon with blackish or fuliginons
wings, e. g. viola Greaaoii,_flavicor-
* Cress., taitciut Cress., cinetkor-
J Cress,, aeehttus Cress., raalnev*
Say, morulu» Say, devinctor Say,
ceatralor Say, grandia Brull£, or
rufieentrig Bruits. It will be observed that there are five white apota
oait,A . . . E, which extend beyond the limite of the vein on which
ihej are situated into a blister-like expanse, that has much the appear-
ance of a spot of white mould. Besides these five, there are two mi-
nute spots, F and G, which scarcely ever extend beyond the limita of
the vein on which they are located. The locu* of all these spots is per-
fectly definite and never differs in any species. J. is small and otlen
subobsolete, and is invariably located on the internal side of the areolet,
and so well forwards as to touch the radial area. B is large and obvi-
ous, and is invariably located on the external side of the areolet, and
almost always slightly behind the middle of the cross-vein which it be-
Btrides. C in targe and obvious, and is invuiably located about mid-
way between the areolet and the obtuse, salient angle of the second
recurrent nervure, which angle, as in the figure, often has a short stamp
of a vein proceeding from it. D is small and sometimes subobsolete,

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and is iuTari&blj looated immediately beliind tbis salient angle so as to
tonch its apex. Sia hige and obvions, and is invariably located about
midway between the areolet and the obtnae, re-entering Angle of the
first recurrent nerrure, which angle, like that of the second recurrent
nervure, often bears a short stump of a rein, as shown in the figure.
And f and G are minute and inconspicuous, and invariably locuted
on the hind end of the two hindmost cross-veins, so as to touch the
anal or postcoetal vein,

Altboogb three of these five blister-like spots, viz: S, 6' and E, are
obvious, 80 far as I can find out, in every N. A. species of Ichneumon
Ihat has blackish wings, the other two being generally smaller and not
80 conspicuous, and although Mr. Cressou, on my calling bis atten-
tion to the subject, kindly informs me that he notices them in many
European species with blackish wings, yet they have been almost en-
tirely overlooked by authors. Say refers to them only in bis descnp-
tion of J. malacJts^ where he calls them " bnllie," (blisters or bubbles,)
and in his description of/, moruftw, where he calls them "white dots;''
Gresson refers to them only in bis descriptions of / Blitkei and /. sce-
lettm; and Brull£ does not refer to tbem at all. As to the minnte
spots, F and (r, though tbey occur, not only thougboat the genus Ich-
neumon, but in every specimen of every species of every genus belong-
ing to Ichneumonidx, (and I might add Braconidte,} that I have
hitherto examined, yet I cannot find that any anthor has as yet taken
any notice whatever of them.

But these five " bailee" are not confined to those species of Ichneu-
mon that have blaeklsb wings. I discover that, by holding the wing
up to the light, they may be detected, more or less plainly, in all the
apecies of Ichneutiwn, at least seventy in number, that are contained in
my collection, many of which have almost perfectly hyaline wings.*

•MycollectioneoinpriBeHino/BCreaB. 9(=iiioinTMCrega.=0rj)AeiMCreBB.),/aia-
eamis Crsss. ^ , malacai Say 9,«itiriu» Creas. y{^=attr Creae.), Hneflcamit Ciena,
^ 5, nmrulM Bay % 9, vilii/nms Cress. t.i»c«fe»(iM Cress. 9 ,extremalU (-muar)
Cna.% ^ ,unifaK!iatoriu*B»y % .otiotaaBty % ^ ,a^tusCteBB.^ ,ptil(JierBmllS
%,agru!eui Crests. 9 (=trua ^ of pu!ckerr),Jucundut BrvlU ^, Grolei Creee. ^ ,
fiavimnatas Creea. % , atrifroru Cress. 9 1 conptvs Say % , paratua Bay (1836) % ,
comeiCTeiB.% 9 , dnnncior Say 9,/usef/rotMr Cress. ^ ,pee(oraliat Saj % ,funes-
tuit Creaa. 9> centraior Say 9> »vturalia Say 9> leminiger Crcas. 9 (^uicijiu*
Cress.), annultpuT Cress. J (=puii!lus Creas.), ffrandu BmllS ^ 9 ( t =anilnffiiu»
Cress., ^ — rcgnatrix Creas.) Aad ru/iveHtrii BruU6 % 9 {—HnurocciHetaCnaa.—
inetrtvi Creaa.) The remaining thirty-nine apeciea are not described either by
Bay, Brull^ or Cressou, and are probably most of them new. Aa regards the
BjQonymiea given in the above list, it is proper to add here, that I do not find

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On the otber hand, la other. Ichneumon idoua genera there exist homo-
logous spots, but often different in naiuber or differing slightly in their
location, though they are manifeBtly modifioationa of the same primordial
pattern. For example in Trogut, where the pentagonal areolet of Ich-
aeumon becomes rhomboidal by the elimination of the upper side, A
generally covers the whole angle formed above by the anion of the
inner and outer sides of the areolet, and the other four bulhe are placed
as in Jrhneumvn. In Pimpla and Epkialtet, which also have a rhom-
boi3aJ areolet, A is placed above B on the upper end of the outer side
of the areolet, and in fimpla ia generally separated from B only by a
very small space, and sometimes entirely confluent with It, the other
three bullae being located in both genera nearly as in Ichneumon, ex-
cept that £ is usually closer to the angle of the first recurrent vein.
In Cr^plux there are normally but /our bullffi, and D being conflu-
ent and the others placed as in Iihneumon, except that B ia located
higher up on the cross-vein which it bestrides. In Glypta, where the
areolet id represented by a simple cross-vein, A and B are absent, but
as (7 and D are not quite confluent, being divided by a sleoder black
line or blact dot, there are three bulhe, C, D and E. Odonlomeru!,
jr^ionomus, Acanilut and Arotei differ from GJypta chiefly in Cand D
being separated by a very wide space, and have the same number of bulhe.
And ID Ophion and Anomalon, where the areolet is aleo represented
by a simple cross-vein, A and B are absent, but Cand D being per-
fectly confluent, there are conaequently but tu>o bullte. So far as I can
discover, on a careful examination, there is no Icbueumonidons genus

aEther the ahaps of the '■centrftl area" of the raetathorai, or the number of
joints contained in the anUnaal anuulue, b constant and reliable epeci&c cha-
racter. In Terj manj well-marked speciei or which 1 posiesa aumeroua speei-
mena, the width of the "oentral area," as compared with its length, variej SO
per cent, with all the intermediate grades, i. e. varies from " transrsree" to
"quadrate" or from "quadrate" to "elungatei" and in other such species the
length of the antenna I annulua varies very con eiderably, often by three or four
and in one speoiea by aa much as seven joints, with Dumerous intermediat«
grades. It is even the case that in one undescribed species, allied to parvua
CressoD, of which I possess seven ^ , a single % has two or three of the inter-
mediate antannal joints marked with ye How i ah -white above, while the remain-
ing six I have no such markings whatever. And Westwood records the fact that
"two 5 "f Oiyplut btllasm ware reared by Mr. Thwaitas, one of which had the
antennss annulated and the other entirely black." [Jhtr. II. p. 13S, note.) If
all specimens that differed in the above chaiactera were considered aa diatinct
epeciee, the number of species in my collection would be very largely inoreased,
and my argument strengthened so much the more.

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tbat has not some such modification of that ^pe of bnllse which pre-
Tails ID JchnetimoK, and none that has not at least two bailee, vis :
(or CD) wd E*

Althongh, u I believe, the bnllie exist typical]; in erery species of
Ichneumon JQ the pattern peculiar to that geniu, yet, as ve might oat-
urallj expect, we occasionally in certain species meet with certain spe-
cimens, where they are partially obsolete, or nndei^ some other slight
modification, sometimes in one wing only, sometimes in both wings of
the same specimen. In order to test this question, I haro carefully
examined both front wings in 319 speoimeus belonging to the 70 spe.
oies of Ichneanton which I possess, making in all 638 wings. Of these
638 wings Rs many as 75, belonging to 28 different species, have the
bulla A obsolete; 28 wings, belonging to 15 dififerent species, hare the
bulla D obsolete; f in one wing only of the 638, belonging to a single
9 of geminiffer Cress, out of 3 $ which I possess, is the bulla obso-
lete; but in none whatever of the 638 are either the bulla B or the
bulla E obsolete. In 5 wings out of the 638, belonging to 3 different
species, where the areolet is subrhomboidal, including 1 I out of 29
i of Jtaviztmalits Cress., the bulls A and B are confluent abore. And
only in 2 wings out of the 638, vie in 2 t of momlut Say — a Teiy
abnormal species with metathoraoic thorns J — out of 3 % 2 9 , is there
a small additional or spurious bulla loestedon theside of the areolet that
adjoins the diseoidal eel), but only on the inside of the areolet and not
extending on to the vein. In 11 out of 13 specimens of Troffiu obti-
dianator Brull^ which I poaaess, this same addititmal spurious bnlla or
rather semi-bulla makes its appearance. But neither in the three other

*SAy dewribes the "balln" by that name in Anomaitm atiracitu. An. {Odort-
tomerua) meliipet, OpMon bneitialOT and Orypfiugrallator; and deaeribes them as
" whitetpita" in Banchut aguahu aad B. tiervulti*. Of course, if he had been
aware that these bullw are, properlj speaking, a geoerio character common
to ail the species of the same genus, he would not bare given them as charac-
ters at particular apecies. Srull^ neither naiDCB nor deaorjbea the bnlln in an;-
of hia descriptions of Ichneumonida, though hia Artist baa figured them Ptate
XLII, fig. 1. And Mr. Cresson (ells me tbat " neither Fabrioius nor Graven-
horst, so &T aa he can Bee, mentions the bulln or an; other term for that cha-

t In aeveral biubU speoiea with hyaline wings, which I haTe referred to this
category, the second recurrent vein is so nearl/ straight, that it is difficult to
SAj, whether it is the bulla that is obsolete or the bulLn C and O that are
confluent.

X If Hoplitmeniu Orv. can be retained as distinct from Cryptus, which Brulld
denies, then this species sbould also be erected into a genus distinct from Jik~

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species of Trogut in my collection, including T. exegoriui BnilM, nor
in any other Ichneumonidoos Bpociea, so &r as I have obserTed, except
Ctyplu* Tobtutut Crem. six {i^id an apparently nndeecnbed species
(one S one $ ) belonging to a new genus iiit«rmediat« between Joppa
and Baryceroi, do I find any traces of this remarkable anomaly. The
above ia the sum total of variation, as regards these " bullae," in 638
wings appertaining to 70 distinct species of Ichnevmon ; and it appears
to be almost universally variation and not specific difierence, because
there is but a single instance where a species, represented by over two
specimens, esliibite any given variation in both the front wings of all
the specimens. That instance is aanvlipetl Oress., a very variable
species, of which I poesexs eight specimens, no two of them exactly
alike in their general coloration, and all eight of which have the bulla
A obsolete in both wings. In 819 specimens of any given species of
insect, we should be apt to find almost as great an amount of variation,
as that which has been detailed above, in any given specific colorational
character. And yet this particular type of bullie is not a specific cha-
racter, but one which runs through 70 distinct species of a partioalar
genus ; and as already stated, remarkable modifications of the normal
bailee of Ichneumon are found in all the other Ichneumonidoua genera
with which I am acquainted.

Besides the seven spots which, as has been already shown, exist typi-
cally in the front wing of Ichnewnonidx, there are usually in the hind
wing two bullie located on the lower or hindmost end of the two prin-
cipal cross-veins. But for the purpose which I have in view, it b un-
necessary to dwell upon this point.

I might have insisted likewise on the very general, though not nnt-
versa), persistence of the pale spot at the base of the stigma throughout
IckneumonidK and Braconidtt, and several other Hymenopterous fami-
lies; and, indeed, throughout certain families belonging tootherOrders.
But as this character is perhaps partly structural, being connected with
the thinner oi^aniiation of the stigma at that particular point, for cer-
tain unknown structural or funetional purposes, I have forborne taking
any account of it. In the case of the bullae, however, we cannot rea-
sonably assume, that any structural or functional necessity cOnld require
a wing-vetD to become suddenly thinner at some particular point, and
then as suddenly become as thick as before; for it has been proved
that the wing-veins are, properly speaking, veins, i. e. that they arc
fluid-conducting tubes. And even if we make some such gratuitous
assumption, this will not explain the white blotch ou the membrane of

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the wing, Thiob almost always in th« bullw A . . . E, btit eearedy wtx
u the spots Ft,ai 0, t^mf» the whtt« spot oa Ae veia itself.*

To enttHDologiHta who hare worked mnch dd any particular group or
groups of iaBecU, the foets stated above will, I stispect, seem not at aU
extraordinary. For many similar cases of Colonitional Unity ooeur is
every Order; and it has repeatedly happened to myself, and I doubt not
to Qthere, that, aft«r having examined nnmenins speoies belonging to a
given geuos, I oome at Itut npon one with a partioolar spot or a partienlar
stripe coDspicaonsly developed in a particular locvt, and, on recurring
to the speoies already examined, find more or less faint traces of the
same spot or the same stripe im every one of them. But to the student
in other departments of Natural History, where the number of speoies
is so very much smaller than in Insects, and where oonsoqueally there
is no such opportunity to form very extensive generaliiations, the phe-
nomena detailed above will appear, perhaps astonishing, perhaps inere>
dible, perhaps &lse. They are nevertheless strictly troe ; and any cne
may easily satisfy himself of their truth, by selecting at random any
qieoies of Ichnewnon and holding op ite wings to the light under a mo-
derately good lens.

The queetjon naturally occurs here to tlie philosophic mind — What
is the HKANiNG of all these facts? Why do the same bulls in the
same loet occur in so many distinct species of the same genns 7 Why
do not some species have these bnlUe located on some of their other
veins, or on some other put of the same vein 1 Why, for example, is
there never a bulla on the ba*al side of the angle of the first recurrent
vein, either in Icknewawn or in any other Ichn^umouidous genua F
Why are there not sometimes six or eight or ten bulln ? Why are
there not somelimeci none at allf In every species oS Idmewmott we
find, it is true, without exception, a pentagonal or subpentagonal
areolet and a very short ovipoeitor. But the reason of this is obvious.
If the insect was without these characters, it would not be placed in
the genus Ichneumim, because these are some of the established generic
characters of Ichnetanou. Yet bo far is it from being the case, that the
bullae are an established generic cfaaraeter of Ichaeumoa, that they do
not appear to have been even noticed hitherto, except incidentally in
the descriptions of a few species. Look at the figure given above.
Anyone can see that the seven white spots on it might be arranged on
the wing in millioDs and millions of different patterns. Why then in

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seventy distioct speciaa of the same geniu are they always arranged in
the same pattern, aabjeot only to the Tery alight Tariationa noticed
■hove ? Why — as is most likely the case — should Nmture have eer-
Tileiy repeated the same moDOtonons Coloratioaal Pattern thronghont
the whole genns Ichnevmon, which probably comprieee at least 500
species, and is numeroudy represented on both sides the Atlantief
Why in allied genera do we find eurions modifications of the same fdn-
damental pattern, and not entirely new and original patterns T Why
in allied genera dowe find none entirely without bnlln, aod uaat witb-
ont the spots /'and Gf Why is the loauot tbei^ts J'uid 6 ib-
Holntely invBriable thronghont IchnevmmidM and Braconidrnf It
these seven spots eould answer any poseible ntilitaiian pnrpoae, we
might say that they oocnr thronghont IthiteutHoti, beoanM the peonliar
habits of that genns require them for that purpose. But they are mani-
festly mere ornamental designs, in no possible respect necessaiyor use-
ful to the individual /cAtteumon, any more than the nuBenms small,
pale spots on the bodies of many adnlt Fallow Deer, whiofa oeonr also
in the fawn of the oommon North Amerioan Deer, are neosiwgy or
usefiil to the individnal Deer.

To my mind, there can be b^ one satisfactory answer to all the
above questions. There must be a close genetie connection between
til the species of the genus Ichnetmion, and a more remote genetic eon-
nectioD between that genus and the other genera of IcAtteimuMidm.
" Community of descent," says Darwin as interpreted by Lyell, "is the
hidden bond wtuch naturalists hare been UDOonsoioaaly seeking, while
they often imagined that they were looking fitr some nuknowo Plan ot
Creation." (_Anti<{. Man. p. 412, Amer. ed.) Xict him, who reiuses to
necept this solution of the enigma, offer a better solution himself.

Siquid lumtH reetau ittiM,

QnviidiM inperti ,■ n mm, kig utert aMnin.
But do not let him utter sonorous common-plaoes, about carrying out
the Plan of Creation and completing the System of Nature, and then
fancy that he has explained &cte, when in reality he has only restated
them in general terms.
Rock Iilamd, Illihois, Sov. 11, ISSi.

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POSTSCRIPT.

It is singnUr how few N. A. Naturaliste seem to be able to quote
Darwin correctly. In the Procefdi'ngt (Vol. V. pp. 26-27) Mr. Soudder
discourses on Darwinbm as follows : —

It hw been auerted that ipecies existing over a wide raDge of oountrj ore
more variablt than thaie limited to a emaller area, and some arguments have
been baaed upon this and similar aseertionB by those who would maintain the
deriTatire theory of the Origin of Speeiel. On this asBnmptioa • • • we
should expect to find, Ac, Ao., tc. In point of fact, almost the exact opposite
appears to be true, Ac, Ac, Ac.

Now what does Darwin really assert ? These are his words : —

Alph. DeCandoIle and others have shown, that plants which have Terj
wide ranges geatrally promt varUtta. ■ ■ ■ But my tables farther show
* ■ ■ that it is the mast flourishing, or, as they ma; be called, the dotninant
species — those which range widely over the world, are the most diffused in their
own country, and are the most numerous in individuals — which oftenat pmdvct
wtllnarkid varitUet, {Orig. Sptc, p. bi, Amer. ed.)

Other writers belonging to the same school lake precisely the same
ground. For example, Mr. Wallace,in his recent admirable Paper on the
Malayan Papilionidet, writes as follows: —

I find, as a gcatrai rule, that the constancy of species is in an inverse ratio to
their range. Those which are confined to one or two islands are generally very
constant. When they extend to many islands, considerable variability appears ;
and when they have an extensive range over a large part of the Archipelago,
the amount of unstable variation is very large. {Trane, I/inn, Soc. xxv. p. 4.)

Substitute in Mr. Scudder's sentence "generally more variable" or
" oftener variable " for " more variable," as in common fairness ought
to have been done, and the few facts quoted by him in the genus Oku
onohtu in no wise controvert what Darwin really asserts. Leave the
sentence as it stands, and assume the facta to be as Mr, Scndder puts
them — on which point I do not pretend to offer any opinion — and the
argument appears to be a triumphant refutation of the so-called Dar-
winian statement. When Darwin is misquoted, the reasoning seems
good ; when be is quoted correctly, it is good for nothing. A theory
must be strong indeed, when, as would seem from the practice of cer-
tidn Naturalists, it can only be refuted by misstating it

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Setoiiptloni sf Hma n*w cpeclM of BASAI1I£<

I. Itbomift SoiDDgk, n. ap.

Mitle. — Fore winga almost as in I. Gonwuia Hewita., but the trans-
parent yellow patch within the cell is double what exietdio tbat species.
Hind wings transparent, brownish ; a large clear yellow space on the
basal half of the abdominal mai^in, extending but slightly into the
cell, and over the second median vein, much more ci re um scribed in its
area than the einiilarly bituated but differently colored spot ia /. Go-
nuMO, reaching, in no direction, as far ns this; a luurginal row of fi/e
rounded and oblong white spots, smaller than in the allied species.

Under surface mostly as above, witfaa bright ferruginous costal band
running half way down the anterior margin of the posterior wingH.
Expanse 2.75 inches.

Antennae entirely black.

Thorax and abdomen black, the first spotted with white in the usoal
manner, the last with a double ventral white line, coalescing at the
insertion into the thorax, and at the anus.

77u6.— Honduras. (In my Collection.)

This fine species, in conjunction with /. Gonusia, might perhaps be
more appropriately placed under Hgmenitu., t^) the less extreme species
of which they very closely assimilate, Mr. Bates, in hie invaluable
work upon the Amazonian Heliconida, gives a list of ten species, (p.
538) which he considers as belonging to this genus, but does not in-
clude among them this species, «hich, at the date of his publication,
was both figured and described. I have, therefore, relying upon his
better judgment, necessarily arising from much greater facilities of com-
parison, treated of the new and related species under the same head.

In the general disposition of iU markings, it is so nearly allied to
Gonmsa, that it might by some Entomologists be considered as its
malr; but recollecting that amidst the crowd of delicate forms refera-
ble to this genus, we know of but one instance (nue.) in which the
sexual disparity is strikingly observable, I have thought it best to treat
it as a new type. A great many new species have been indicated by
Dr. Herrieh-Sehieffer in his " Lepidopterorum index systematicus,"
Corbl. p. 175, 1861, a large majority of which have neither been deli-
neated nor diagnosed ; until this has been accomplished, they can in
no way conflict with identical species tltat may be described under
other names.

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S. Osntiiiia IjaMta, Fabr. sp.

iVtp. I^cattt, Fabr., Ent. Bjit. III. i. p. ISl, n. ^m. (ITTi.)

Jimes, Icon. II. t. T, f. 1. (iaed.)
Ed. Lgc., Godart, Enc. M. IX. p. 221, n, 54. (1W19.)
Belt Lye., Diuroal Lepidopt. I. p. 104, n. bt). (18i;.)
irtlinamT Zyc, Cat. Brit. Mua. VIII. p. 58. (1B44.]
Cferad'nia JpAiantUM, Cat. Brit. Mua. VIII. p. 1*9. (1844.)
Ifhimia (Ceratinia) Ipk., Diurniil Lepidopt. I. p. lS7,n. 71,L 18, f. 3. (1847.)
Ith. IpK,, Hewitaon, Itbomia, t. Bl, B2, 93. (1855.)

Itk. Ipk., t&T. panamtnaia Bates, Proc. Zool. Boc. p. 246, t. 20, f. 5. (1863.)
Ilh. FlutniMa. Herrich-Bchnffer, Hewitson, Itbomia, f. B3. (IRft4.)
lih. AnapkUaa, " " " f. (1, (18M.)

This ia one of those protean apecies irliich oTertnro all the preoon-
ceived ideas of Entomologiata regarding specific Ntnhility of forui.

Id the earlj part of this year, amongst other Lepidoptera, I received
tiro examples of thie species from Los Angelos, California, where they
had been taken bj my friend, Mr. John C. Love, formerly of this city.
One of these T at once det«rmiDed from Godart's meagre diagnosis, to
be Fabricios' Lffcatle. The other approximated so closely to a variety
of fyhianasaa, then not long described and figured by Mr. Bates, and
yet was so nearly assimilated to the typical Lyca»te as to cause me
much uncertaiDty in regard to the identity of both. In this strait I
forwarded their descriptions to Mr. H. W. Bates, and soon after re-
ceived an answer, from which I extract the following ; — " Your Heli-
conia from Los Angelos is no doubt Jthvmi'a Jphianasta, loCiil var.
Panameniis mihi . . . since naming the insect, I had myself found it to
agree with Godart's Li/caste ... I suppose the name Iphianasm must
now give way to that of L^eatte ... its occurrence so far north as Los
Angelos is a new and most unexpected fact."

A careful examination of a series of eight successive and progreaaive
forms, five of which I have in my own cabinet, finally determined me
to concentrate these varieties under one specific head, treating the aber-
rations as local, imperfectly segregated races.

One peculiarity will be observed in this variation, and which has
uever fallen under my notice as occurring in any other species, that,
with hut few exceptions, the wings appear suffused with black in pro-
portion to their recedence from the Equatorial line.

This will be readily perceived from the following diagnosis of each
form, which I have thought it desirable to append, both as illustrating
the formation of apeciea, and for the better determination of other vari-
eties, which the futnre will undoubtedly disclose to us.

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Oerallnui Lycaste, Fnbr. ip. Type.

Male. — Fore wings, with the basal third, dark orange-tawny; bejoni]
this, a, broad yellow buDd, obliquely traversing the disc, and narrowing
towards the inner aogle, which, however, it does not reach ; a large
rounded blaek spot occupies the middle of the cell, half being super-
imposed upon either color; the coata is black throughout its entire
leogth ; the outer half of the wing black, with three very small white
submarginal spots; three indistinct brownish streaks between these
and the yellow band.

Hind wio}^, with the basal half, dark orange-tAwny ; the posterior
portion black, this covering an area contained between a nearly straight
line, drawn from the middle of the costa to a point on the anal margin,
opposite half the length of the abdomen, and the outer margin.

Underneath the primaries differ only in having the submarginal
white spots increased to the number of seven.

The secondaries differ from the upper side in having a row of sub-
marginal spots to the same number as the primaries, and also in the
presence of a large oval black spot above the cell, concealing a thick
oval corneous plate, and which is contmued within a sudden expansion
and re-approximation of the costt|1 and subcostal vein, along which runs
a narrow b!ack line from the base to the black margin. This plate on
the upper surface is depressed below the level and filled with closely
appressed scales of peculiar tbrm, which are covered by the overlying
sexual tuft of hairs. Expanse 1.81 inches.

Bah. — Los Angeloa, Cal'a. (In my Collection.)

Guiana; South America. CColt. Brit. Mus.)
var. ponamensis, Bates.

" 9 • Wings opake ; fore wing alnrve with the basal third orange-
Uwny, which color is prolonged a short distance along the costal and
hind mai^ns, the costal edge being black, and the centre of the cell
ornamented with a large rounded black spot; this is followed by a
broad obliqne yellow belt, commencing at the subcostal nervure, and
narrowing to its termination near the hind angle. Apical portion of
the wing beyond the cell black, crossed in the middle by a row of three
widely distant yellow spots. Beneath, the same, except that there is
a row of seven submarginal white spots.

Hind wings above with the basal half orange-tawny, the outer half
black, the black portion contracted near the apex, which has a row of
three minute whitish spots. Beneath, the same, except that there is a
yellow spot at the root of the wing, a black spot at the end of the cell,

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sad a row of white subtuargiDal spots. Antennfe orange, basal portion
blacLuh. Thorax yellowish, with two white dorsal lines; collar orange.
Abdomen dark brown. Kspanse 2" 2"'." — Bates.

Sab. — " Pvnaiua." Salvin & Godmnn.

In this form the central black dot of the pnioarieB is BurroDoded by
oraage-tawny — in the type, and in the following; semi-species it is
placed half upon each,
Tar. neffriia, in.

Male. — This, in addition to the difference in the eituation of the
black spot of the fore wings, mentioned above, has a large blauk dot at
the termination of the hind wings' cell, and is deprived of the three
Bubmai^inal white spots upon the same, that are found in var. paita-
mtnt'a. The under surface is similar to the upper, with the addition
of the black line running along the costal and postcostui veins, as in
the type, here, however, much widened, and connected with the spot
at the end of cell by a short bar. Expanse 2.25 inches.

The oval black corneous patch is also present, as it is throughout all
the % forms of the specie)'.

Sab. — Los Angelos, California, (In my collection.)

Tar. anaphiami, Herrich-SchgsfTur.

IphianOMB, mr. Ilewitaon, Ithomla, XV. {. 91. (1955.)

Differs from the usual form of Iphianansa only in the quantity of
black with which the wings are suffused.

The black spots of the primaries are much enlarged, and the "carvel
line of orange near the outer margin" ia obsolete.

The ground color of the secondaries is orange ; the broad stripe of
this color traver ' jg the black hind margin in var. Iphuinassa Doubld.
is nearly obliterated; an oblong semi-transparent yellowish -white spot
between the black spot at the extremity of the cell and the black outer
margin.

Hab. — " New Granada." Hewitson.
Tar. pamtTtaia, m.

Maie. — Differs from the following and most abundant variety of the
species ID having the black spots considerably enlarged, and, with the
exception of the apical yellow band, in being of a uniform tawny-orange;
the "oblong transparent spot between the second and third median
uervules" is reduced to a mere dot.

The secondaries present a row of three apical, small, rounded, white
spots upon the black margin. Expanse 2.36 inches.

Female, simitar to the male.

Sab. — Garacoae. (In my Collection.)

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The lesB quantity of black upon tbe w'mgs of this fona has led me
to place it intermediate between var. Anaphiua and var, fyhinnaua,
altboagh its tawny-orange tint connects it very oloeely with the first
tliree varieties.

var. Iphla7va»a DbM. et Hewits.

Diumal Lepidoptefs, 1. 1 IS, f. 3. (I84T.)
HewitaoQ, Ithoraia, XV, f. 92. (18iS.)

" Upper side. Mule. — Anterior wing, from the base to beyond the
middle (except the margins and two black spots, one of which crosses
the end of the cell), semi-transparent rufous. The rest black, crossed
before the apex by a curved band of yellow, and an oblong transparent
spot between the second and third median nervules, A curved line of
oran^ near the outer margin, and two or three white spots at the apez-
Foeterior wing with the basai half transparent rufoua white, with a
small black spot at the end of the cell. G'he rest black, traversed by
a band of orange, parallel to the outer margin.

Under bidb as above, except that both wings have a Bubmarginal
row of white spots. The female does not differ. ExpaDse 2^g io.

Sa h. — Venezuela." — HewilMtt.

Caraccas. (In my Collection.)

The figure in the " Genera " represents a much more brightly oolored
insect than does that of Mr. Hewitson's plate; I am unable to aay
whether this difierence esista in fact.

var. Phanaia, Herrieh-Schicffer.

Tphiamasa var. Uewitgou, Itbomia, XV. f. 93. (ISSS.)

Differs chiefly from the preceding in the diminution of the extent of
black surface, particularly noticeable upon the primaries. " The ob-
long trauaparent spot between the second and third median nervules"
is much enlarged, and occupies all the area within those limits between
the cell and the margin ; the " curved line of orange" extends but a
short distance along the enter margin; the black spot in the cell is les-
sened, and a small black triangle in the angle formed by the median
vein and first branch, is wanting. The black spot at the extremity of
the cell of the secondaries is obsolete upon the npper surface, and the
black mai^in is uiore rounded interiorly at the apex, not so contracted
as heretofore. The mfous tint is more diluted, and the diaphaneity of
the wings more coiiBpicnouB than in any <^ the preceding forms.

JluL — " New Granada." Hewitson.

var. (Mmboraxana, In.

Female. — Fore wings transparent; some opaque t&wny-oraiige acsles
beyond the subcostal vein, and on the inner margin below the mediaD

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vein md first braach, in neither place reaching farther thao the cell;
a black Bpical patch and outer margin ae in the normal form, a enb-
marginal rov of white gpota, becoming indistinct towards tbe inoer an-
gle, where there is also a faint trace of the orange line. Two transverse
black bands, both much dilated superiorly, extend from the costa to
the outer mai^in; the upper, commenoin^ directly npon the costa,
ooyers the disco-cellular nerruleB, and third median veintet, narrowing
almost to the width of this in its lower portion ; the two radials which
are black and somewhat dilated, divide the space enclosed between the
band and the black margin into three oblong spots, the upper having a
smallopaquewhiteapot impinging upon the coata; the lower black band
arises about the middle of the cell from the subcostal nervure, along and
below which a tapered prolongation runs to the base, and terminiites on
the onter margin just above the anal angle, nearly following the line
of the medb central veinlet; below the cell this band is of nearly
uniform breadth.

The hind wings appear to be colored as in var. PlMnetta, but the
central portion is entirely transparent.

The single esample I possess is somewhat rubbed, for which dae
allowance must be given to the description.

Hub. — Ecuador. (In my Collection.)

For a specimen of this very interesting variety, ticketed " Valleys,
west side of Chimborazo," I am indebted to Mr, H. W. Bates.

To the best of my knowledge, I have given the diagnoses of all known
forms referable to this species, which, with some others, Salajna,
Terra, Avella, Diasia, &c., are, I think, entitled to generic distinction.
Tbe corneous plate on the under side of the hind wings of the male is
a very decided diagnostic, sufficient to separate them not only from the
remaining members of Ceratinia, hut also from all the species contained
in that most incongruous genus of the " Genera" — Ithomia. For the
species named, and three or four more, I would indicate the generic
name Dynothca.
3. Ceratlaia Oaata, Boisd. ap.

% Hdiconia Daeta, Boisd. Sp. Gea, t. 11, f. 7. (1831.)

Jthomia (Ceratinia) Daeia, Diurnal Lppidoptera, I. p. 127, O. TT. (1847.)

9 Mechattitie Melphit, Hubn. Zut. f. 6ST, 688. (1832.)

Ithomia Anyta, Dbld. Diurnal Lepidoptera, I, p. 1ST, n. 75. (1847.)
ifecfuinilia Melphia, var. UUbn. Zut. f. 7aS, 7A0. (1831.)
Itlumia Laphria, Dbld. Diurnal Lepidoptera, I. p. 127, n. 76. (1832.)
Itkonia Euryaruusa, Felder. W. E. M. IV. p. 101. (1860.)

Hab. — Caraccas (_Dxla), Rio de Janeiro {LapAria and Eurifanaaa).
(In my Collection.)

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I can see no renBon for separating any of these synonimic forms.
Dr. Herri ch-S<^seffcr has, indeed, united Anyta and Bieta, and very
curiously given tlie former name the preference. There is no percep-
tible difference either in oolor or venation between my Bpecimens of
Daeta (type) and of Euryanasia, both of which I have very carefully
determined bj coniparieon with figures and diagnosis. Laphria is the
only form which could, by undue straining, be considered evea a vari-
ety, and the departure is so very trifling that it hardly merits this slight
distinction.
i. MMbanitl* OalUgraloK, n. sp.

Expanse 2.45—2.56 inches. Fore wing above, brownish-black, a
basal streak over the median nervnre, and two rounded spots near the
inner angle, orange-tawny; of these the outer is the largest, sometimes
the inner is yellow, and sometimes both are nearly obsolete — a spot
across the cell near its termination much narrower than in M. Istkmm,
and in one example, (B) reduced to a mere dot on the median nervure,
a more or less interrupted belt across the wing from the costa to near
the middle of the outer margin, and an oblong subapical spot, yellow ;
in specimen B, jnst mentioned, there is an additional yellow spot below
the medio-central vein let.

Beneath the same, snffused with orange-tawny at the base, and the
inner angle, with a row of eight or nine submarginal white spots along
the outer mat^n.

Hind wing above, orange tawny, with a broad mesial baud, entire,
and a narrow outer border, from the middle of the costa to the anal
angle, brownish -black.

Beneath thesame, a yellow spot on the root of the wing; a band runs
along the subcostal nervure from the base to the margin, where it is
somewhat dUat«d; immediately below its termination, a mark in the
form of an irregular figure 2, usually with the upper part inordinately
enlarged ; between this and the base, on the central line of the band
above, three small subtriaugular spots; all these markings blackish-
brown ; a submarginal row of seven white spots on the outer margin.

Body brownish ; wing lappets and thorax spotted with tawny-orange;
antenna yellowish, with the base dusky.

Mab. — Loa Aogelos, California. (In my Collection.)

This beautiful species is closely allied to Mechamti* Isthmta Bates,
both being local segregations of the protean M. Polymnia, to which,
however, Californica species is more nearly allied.

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Dweripttaai ftf Mma nnr (pMiM of HEEBIA.

1. Bta^ Twitt, nor. ip.

Jfafe.— Upper aide, brown ieh-blRclc. Fore viog, with a xingle spot in
the celt, a Urge epot below it cut b; the first median nervule, a quadri-
partit« band from the ooetal marj^n beyond tbe middle, the division
upon the oosta bisected by a narrow black vein, and a small rectangular
spot Dear the middle of the exterior margin.

Hind wing crossed between the middle and tbe base bj a broad band,
divided by black nervitles into seven spots; all the markings on tbe
upper surface pale rufous white. Fringe while, cut with black.

Under side more brownish than above; the pale markings of above
repeated and enlarged, base and one-third the costa of tbe primaries
and base of the secondaries, bright ferruginous; twosub-basal spots and
an oblong streak, rufous white, transversely across tbe latter, also a sub-
marginal row of oblong spots of the same color. Espanse 1.88 inches.
Antennm black ; thorax and abdomen above black; head and thorax
uaderneath spotted with yellowish- white.
Hah. — Honduras. (In my Collection.)

Yery closely allied U> E. Eira Hewitson, but differs in tbe much
greater elongation of the wings, the body remaining of tbe same size.
It lacks a rufous-white spot in each cell, there being but one in the fore
wing's eell, and none in that of the bind; and also the ferruginous dot
near the anal angle; tbe transverse band in Exra is centrally situated,
in Yorila it is thrown much befbre the middle, its outer margin tracing
a mesial line.

Mr. Hewitson does not mention any basal ferruginous markings in
Exra, and which are so eminently charact«ristio of Yorita.
3. BtMta Oomaala, dot. ip.

Male. — Upper side black, marked with pale fulvous; a laige patch
on the inner margin beyond the middle, and obliquely above it two
smaller, respectively approaching the outer third of the costa and the
middle of &e exterior mai^in.

A transverse band across the secondaries, very wide upon the costa,
and narrowing toward the abdominal margin ; following this, a row of
indistinct submai^nal lunnles; emarginations yellowish- white. Ex-
panse 1.38 inches.

Under side, primaries ftilvous towards tbe base, beyond, two large
orange spots, separated by a sinuate black band, running from the

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costa Dearly to the inner angle ; apical urea grejish-brovn, with some
small white lunnlate spots on the costa, and two lai^r, near the middle
cf the outer margin.

Secondaries greyish ; at the base reticulated with delicate reddieh-
brown lines ; a pale rufous yellow transverse band ; outer margin
clouded with rufouR-brawn. enclosing a series of pale snbmai^iDal la-
nules, and interior to these three or four roanded brown spots.

Female does not differ.

Hah. — Brasil. (In my Collection.)

In ornanientatiun, (Jornada must b6 very near to TdvUtta Godart,
as a variety of which I have long considered it, (a typical example of
this I have never seen) but as in outline, it eiactlj ngrees with Dicoma
Hewitson, 1 have considered it as new, for Mr. Hewitson says, this,
{Dicoma) " is near Teletusa on the upper side, but of different form."

3. ErMia OeiilK«*l>> <'°'' ^p.

Male. — Upper side hrownisb-black, marked with white, or pale yel-
lowish-white spots, arranged on the primaries a.s follows : an abbreviated
snb-costal hand of three spots, obliquely below and exterior to these
two more, and then a single submarginul one completes the interrupted
maculate band, running from the coeta to the middle of the exterior
mai^n ; below the median vein another short row of three spots, and
at an equal distance on each side of the lowest of these, which is much
compressed, a rounded spot near the inner margin ; a narrow transverse
streak in the cell.

The secondaries present a dash in the celt ; a central transverse band,
divided by the dark veins, and posterior to this, two indistinct rows of
lunales.

Under side, primaries grayish-yellow on the basal half, outer portion
brownish ; the spot within the cell is considerably dilated, and there
sre traces of another spot interior to this; the submarginal spot on the
OQler margin is very much enlarged, extending to the outer margin,
and becoming pale fulvous; there is an obsolete row of counect«d la-
nules, the two nearest the apex black, and on the costa between these
and the abbreviated hand, a small yellowish-white point; the rest of
the white marlcinge as on the upper surface.

Secondaries uniformly greyish-yellow, faintly reticulated with darker
lines at the base; a submarginal row of white lunnles, obsolete at the
apex, and above the two central of these, two well defined small brown
crescents. Expanse 1.38 inches.

Sab. — Loa Angelos, Cal'a. (In my Collection.)

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Perhaps this may be identioal with E. ffermat Hewiteon, but as he
haB Dot figured the upper side, and described it very vaguely, it is com-
paratively impoBsible to determine anything from his diaguosis. It is
oaly, however, in the outline of the marking that it seems to resemble
that species. Their difference in color, and some variBtions upon the
fore wings, have induced me to consider it specifically distinct.

Ereiia SmertOx Hewits. must give place to E. {MelUmn) Texana
Edwards, Mr. Edwarda having described it in July, 1863; the former,
in April, 1864. E. Gggei, of the same author, is a synonym of E.
Erigia Poey, the two being precbely Himilar.

i. BrMi& B&tMii, dot. Bp.

JUale. — Fore wings black ; two transverse, maculate, fulvous bands,
arising nearly at the costa, and converging to the inner margin ; the
cell contains three or four abbreviated bars, none of them estending
below the median vein ; the basal half of the area below this neFvure
is deep black, rarely containing a narrow fulvous streak ; a spot of the
same color opposite the middle of the outer matgin.

Secondaries black; the two fulvous bands of the fore wings are conti-
nued nearly to anal margin, the separating line very much attenuated in
the middle; the posterior contains a rounded black spot between each
nervule, and beyond these an indistinct row of connected lunules; two
fulvousspotawithin the cell, preceding the first transverse band, the inner
semi-encircled by the outer. Fringe white, orwhitish, sometimes lightly
cut with black at the estremities of the veins. Exp. 1,25—1.50 inch.

Under side of the primaries fulvous; a large triangular black patch
arising from the middle of the inner margin is connected at its apex
with an irregular,dilatinghar runniugthence to the middle of the costa;
a short bar on the costa between this and the apex ; three connected black
lunules, the central much the widest, ruu from beyond the middle of
the innner margin to the third median vein; sometimes this line is
prolonged by the addition of one or two more very delicate crescents.

Secondaries ochrey-yellow; indistinct pale fulvous lines near the base,
and a row of rounded dots, followed by pale lunules of the same color
near the outer margin ; rarely, one of these last is bright ferruginous.

Body, &c., as in the allied species.

Femnle, similar on the upper surface; underneath the reticulations
are plainer. Expanse 1.63 inches.

Hal. — Winchester, Va. ; Gloucester, N. J. (In my Collection.)

I take pleasure in dedicatiug this species to my friend, Mr, H. W.
Bates, of London.

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Its only Eastern ally is Tharog, but it is much more nearly related
to Pulchelia Boisd. {Pratensin Belir.) of the west coast, for specimens
of which I am indebted to Mr. P. R. Uhler.

The almost uniform saturation with bluek below the mediBD vein of
the fore wing, coupled with the white fringe, are veiy decided diagno-
stics, and ulone sufficient to separate it from any of the allied species.

NOTES OH THE BOKBTCIDJE OF CrSA.

Curator of Entomology, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciencee.

When we separate from this Family the Zygfenid genera, Melnn-
chroi'i, Ctennrhiilia,* etc., which have been referred to the Bombyeid
Sub-Family Ldkoxiiaa, by Mr. Walker, we can perceive that its rep-e-
sentation in Cuba, judging from the present collection of Prof Poey,
is extremely meagre. It abounds in species which appear to be repre-
sentative, showing that we must consider the Island as a Province of
the Fauual District which embraces the West Indian Archipelago.
The species are wanting in Striking forms, and, compared with the
members of this Family in the United States, are also wanting in in-
terest and beauty. Of certain sub-families, no representatives occar_
The Ceratocampulx, Atlaci, ^ P/ulj/pteri/cidie, and CochUdim, are

'CtaQnebillia. mihi, n. g. Type, Ctenucha virgo, II 8., Exot. flg. 301.

Differs from Ctenueka virginica aud CUnurha creMonana, by the very slend
labial palpi, which are not depressed at Ibi-ir tips nor flexuoua, but held aoni
what rigidly. Maiillffi short. Occiput and epicrnnium longer than usual,
broa'l as the elongate, a-lva need prothoracic parte, which receive tbem with bul
a alight apparent contraction. Thorai. alender and, with the caputal and pro-
thoracic parts, very finely, evenly and shortly scaled. Mervulea of the pri
ries shorty costa at apical third not eo depreesed aa in CUnucha; fourth m. ner
f irther removed towards the base of the wing; third, arcuate. The struct
caputal and thoracic characters are diatinctive, and separate it from allied Wesl
Indian genera. CURtichidia nirgo ia finely maculate beneath. The exiatence
thia genus, as distinct from Ctenucha, has been supposed by Dr. A. S. Pactard,
Jr. Tbe Zygeenidee ehouM precede the Bombycidaa in a natural arrangemi
A |>aper on the Cuban representatives of the Family, is in course of preparation.

+ The genua Samia. belonging to this aub-family, was erected by HObner in
181*. Under it are grouped in the " Verzeiohniss," three apeciea, as I regard
thera the types of so many distinct genera, which do not seem to have been pro-
perly separated. The first species aeema properly to be regarded as the type of
tbe genus Samia, as now amended. Thia is the Sombi/x cgntAia Drury, from
Asia. The second species, Fhafana {AiCacaa) cecropia, of Linnceus, ia property
the type of an American genua for which I have elsewhere proposed to uae Dun-
can's generic term, Hyalopkora. It becoming evident lo me that the use of this
term is liable to objectiou, for the reason that it is not properly restricted by it*

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totallj UDrepreaenteil, while the a.f. Pti'loilonteg is very limited in eX'
tent, though, as I coDsider, varied id eipreseion. The Arctiiiife arc

author, and that it has bei;n loDsel/ used for a variety of species, I am con-
Itrained to propose a new name for it. The third species, Phalicna (Atincua)
ProtnetAea Drury. has been made the type of the generft CaUoaamia by Dr. Pack-
ard, and ia eetablished under that name, which is well selected in the view
that it possesses close affinities with Snniia eynlAia.
BAHIA, Hubner.

Type : Phalana (Allaeiu) C^/ntMa, Drury, III. Exot. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 10, Plate 0,
fig. 2. ( 1773.)

The head is large and prominent, well advanced before the prothoricic parts.
The labial palpi are sufficiently prom tu en t, advanced as far as the wide ely pens,
whioh is thickly covered with short hair. The antennie are m-«lerate; hi-pecti-
□ate in both sexes to their tips, glabrous, testaceous. The pectinations are but
little shorter in the female than in the roale.clothed with fine and veryshort ciliie
in both sexes. Wings ample; primaries falcate, more than twice as long as the
body. Kervules short; Gr^it s. c. at base approximate to second, the latter ar-
cuate at bdse and throwing off the third s. c. at one-third of its length, the latter
nearly straighl. viTy slightly inversely arcuate. First median nervule promi-
nently arcuate ; second median straight, the interspace wide. Discal space
large. Subcostal nervure basally straight. Secondaries long, ovate, their in-
ternal margin more than twice as long as the abdomen ; costal margin short;
external margin long and oblique, very slightly rounded.

The immature stages of Samia Cynthia afford good ttisfinetional characters
when compared with those of Platytania ; these nearly ally the genus to Callo-
aamia. The cocoon resembles that of Oillomnia in shape,thoughof a softer and
looser texture. In making it, the larva fixes it incompletely to the branch
above by an extension, wrapping a leaf around the cocoon itself, in both of
these actions recalling the habit of Cjllosamia promcihea.

The genua Attacua, Linn., should be restricted to A, Atla^ and certain more
recently described species under the genus, such apparently asAttacus Hopfferi
Felder.

8. l^ntkia has, I believe, been taken in the vicinity of Philadelphia, uniler cir-
tumilancBSwhich warrant a belief in the possibility of its aeclimatizatioQ with us.

FLATT8A1UA, nov. gen.
The clypeus, which is narrower than in Samia, and broader than in Catlosa-
mta, is clothed with longer hair, which depends downward, hiding the very
small labial palpi, still further hidden by an Inferior long tuftof hair. Maiillie
wanting. Head small and sunken in the prothoracic parts. The antennie are
long and strongly bi-pectinate. In the male the pectinations are fall twice as
tongas in the female, and densely ciliated. Mcaothorax broad and stout, longly
and loosely haired. Abdomen stout, and heavier and longer than in Samia.
Wings broad and ample; primaries hardly falcate, since there is a very slight

Servules long and arcuate ^ third b. o. arcuate, (thus opposed to Samia) so also
the second median nurvule. Discal space centrally narrower than in Samiai
Bub-costal nervure bent downwardly at base. Becoadaries broad and ample;
external margin rounded; anal angle leas promiacnt than in either Sania or

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tnOBt numerous in species, though the typical genus Arrtta, is wanting.
Sp'losoma has a representative species in S.jumeex, the specific cha-
racters of which are, however, extremely slight when compared with our
Northern S. inrffinicaf and comjiarisons between a greater number of

FtatTiamis EeoropiA.

Phalxna (AUacui) cerropia, L'lan., Syst. Nal. (1768) eto.

Coll. Ent. Sou. Philad.
FUtyiunia MlnnbU, Smith.

Samia salumbia, Bmilh, Prac.BoBt.Boc. N. H. Vol. IZ, p. 343. jMiirch, 1865.)

Coll. Mrs. a. W. Bridgham, New Yort.
FlatTsami* taJIforiilca, n. s,

% ind 9' Smaller than F. cecropla. Priraaries red dish -brown, shaded sub-
terminallj with a, brighter, plum -colored tinge, with no grey shades whatever.
A hroad. basal, white, arcuated band, running fVom internal margin, at extreme
base, to just below the costs at baas.1 fourth, narrowly lined outwardly with dark
scales. Bev«nd the disc a moderate, whitish, eub-luniform spot, shaded with
buff. A nearly straight, subterminal, whitish band, narrower than the basal
band, lined outwardly with dark snales. Subt«rminal space with a brighter,
somewhat peach-colored shade, which becomes leas distinct outwardly. As in
F. eeeropia the apical iatersjiane has a W-shaped pale mark preceded by lilac
scales. Bi'Iow, in (he postapieal interapace, is a black ocellus, margined with
a blue an nulua, obsolete outwardly. Terminal spaco dull pale waod-color, much
the same shade as in F, cerropia, but nairower. The terminal line is narrow
and but slightly waved.

Secondaries resembling primaries in coloration. A few whitish scales at ex-
trem! b<ise. A larger, similarly colored eub-luniform spot to that on the pri-
maries, which is produced so as nearly to attain to the outer transverse white
band, which latter matehea that on the anterior wings. Under surface darker,
but resembling upper surface in ornamentation; secondaries with awhile patch
at babe on costa.

Head, eaputal appendages, thorax and abdomen reddish -brown, very nearly
concolorous with wings. " Collar" entirely white. Abdomen with long white
hair, fringing the segments posteriorly, very distinct in the female; in the
male the bauds are more confused. The sexes resemble each other.

Exp. %, S.^<5iQch. $, 4.2S inches. Length of body, % I. ID, 9 1.86 inchea.

.FaA/M.— California (San Francisco). Mr. J. Akhursl, Mrs. 8. W. Bridgham.

The California species shares the structural features of P. cecropia. The neu-
ration, shape of the wings, and the pattern of the ornamentatioli will readily
distinguish this species from 9 Calloiamia promethta, which, in size and colora-
tion. F. California somewhat resembles.

It is not impossible that this species may be "Saturnia EmyaW' Boisd; if so,
this latter name cannot obtain, since it has not, as far as I am aware, been sanc-
tioned by any description.

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indiTiduals thaa I have had access to need to be inetituteil, to perfectly
establish the Cubaa species as distinct, t, position, however, which I
have assumed in the present paper. I describe two species of Ororota,
which differ in their larger size from the United States species, while
structurally, I find no difference. A comparison of the Cuban speci-
mens of L'tetheUa, with those from the United States, has led me to
unite U. bella. If. ornatrix, and V. sper.ioga, as forms of one variable
species. With this single exception, the Cuban Bonibycidw are speci-
fically distinct from those of the United States. The American Tropi-
cal genus Ammalo has a representative species in Ammalo impunctus,
m., which seems to me distinct fram the South American Ammalo
helopi, Cramer, sp. Erpantheria baa its representative species in E.
albicornin, m.; when we consider the limited representation that this
genus affords in the United States, and the very numerous South Ame-
rican, Mexican and West Indian species already noticed by authors, we
shall agree that it is properly a Tropical genus, and thus the presence
of a distinct species, as I believe in Cuba, from one in Jamaica, assists
our oonclusions that the different Islands composing the West Indies
form different Faunal Provinces with the general features of a Fauna!
District in common. The genua HidUidota appears in Cuba in con-
junction with allied forms which indicate its position with greater
clearness, since, in our Fauna, it rather sharply contrasts with the
genera with which we are led to associate it. It is very interesting
as affording a representative species of H. testellaris, and one that has
been hitherto confounded with Sir J. E. Smith's species, though beau-
tifully and very amply distinct from it. I have named tbis species
ffaluidola cinctipea, from the neatly banded legs, which afford a ready
character as opposed to ff. tetsellaris. It is interesting to find a spe-
cies of Perophora in Cuba, differing strongly from P. MeUketmerii;
as far as I can judge, the species of Perophora offer marked differences
of shape and structure among themselves, so that we have not to de-
pend entirely upon coloration, or size, in discriminating between the
species. An analagous character is offered by the Ceratocampid genus
Anisota, The genus Cydoaia Westw., which I refer to the Lithoninx,
is one of those which "appear to unite" the sub-family with the Tine-
ites. Another genus has been described by Dr. Clemens under the
name of Pxciioptera, Specimens of P. comptn, Clem., occurred to me
in St. Louis, Mo., but unfortunately they have been mislaid, and I
cannot compare tbem with C. nobUilella. Under the impression that
they constitute a distinct genus, aided by Dr. Clemens' elaborate generic

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description, I propose for our geous the generic term OCta, that of
Ptxiyilnpfera being already pre-occupied in luseota. Our species wH]
thus be known as CEla com/ita. Under the number 821, Prof. Poey
sends a speciiueu of a rery brilliant little species, which offers mnch
casual resemblance to Ci/dotia and (Eta; the character of the head
and the neuration of the secondaries, induce me to refer it to the
Tineiles.

I have not cited the MSS. determinations of Prof. Poey in this Paper,
but contented myself with giving the nunibers of the MSS. Catalogue,
as in my Paper on the Cuban Sphingidse, nod for pretty much the
same reasons. But nine of the species are determined. Six of these —
Nos. 207, "Lithosiabella;" 613, " Dejopeia nobilitata;" 175, "Oiketi-
cus Poeyi ;" 79, " Euproctis nrgentiflua;" 112, "Arctia jussieeee;" 511,
" Erithales guacolda," — received specific names which, with an unim>
portant change in one instance, I hare adopted. The retnaioiog three
are Nos. 16(i, " Lithosia tessellaria" {Hfilindota einctijiei, m.); 191,
"Ecpanlheriascribonia" (Kcpantkeria afti'ruiTiia, m.),and 187, "Bom-
bys Helops" {Ammalo impunehis, m). The rest are undetermined.

The specimens aro sometimes in good condition, but of certain spe-
cies I am unable to give perfectly complete descriptions on account of
the faded or defective state of (he material. I think that in no instance,
however, has this interfered with the intelligibility of the descriptions.
It is to be hoped that the Society will receive further material of some
of the species, so that we may become better acquainted with them.
I express this desire in particulurwith regard to P»i/choiioctua pertonalu,
Sj/menopff/ike iHoracicwnx and JTi/Zevtei piger. The former genus is
very interesting if we accept the hypothesis which I here adopt, that
the£ and 9 specimens are correctly associated. In this genus the struc-
tural characters are so opposed in the two sexes, that these would not be
referred to the same genus, if considered singly. The coloration alone
appears to unite the specimens. The oral and pterogoatic structure of
the % , induce me to refer it to that anomalousBub-family, the PsychidsB,
where great sexual differences are, indeed, not unusual. The discovery
of the immature stages of this genua cannot fail to be attended with
great interest. We are frequently deceived by the appearance * of in-

■ I would not be undentood oa difTeritig from the stricturea that Bctentigta
have passed upon Dr. Emmone' State work ou Insects, but it eeemi to me that
the reason that Crtiaonia juglandis is therein detarmiDed as " Bombjx " — aod
Paasalua cornutua as " Scaritea " — is, that thej look like it. And this illuatrates
the point.

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Beot§, which is at times at TSriance with their structure, eo that both
and together must be studied, to determioe properly their classificatorj
position. The failure, at times, to do this, seems to me the only fuult
of Hiibner in his '' VerEeiohDisa." At first sight, the grej color and
proportions of Pigchojuiclua would lead us to consider it as belooging
to the Noctuida.

Sub-Family, LITHOSIIN^iE.
CTTOBirS. DOT. gen.
Allied to Crocola, Hiibner. Head large and prominent. "Front"
broad. Antennte short and stout, tapering to the tips, biserrate.
Winga broad. Anterior wings rounded at the apices and alonjc exter-
nal margin. Posterior wings ample, rounded at costal angle and along
external margin. Abdomen short, not as long as the secondaries. Tho-
racic parts well developed ; prothoraoic pieces broad. Labial palpi fles-
uous; terminal joints somewhat depressed, exceeding the front. This
genus differs from Crninla in the wider clypeus, more prominent eyes,
shorter, stouter and serrated antennsSj and in the rounded apices of the
piimaries.

Ojtami latu, n. sp. (Plate 4, fig. 1,^.)

Primaries fermgioous-tawny, with irregular shades. A prominent
broad white basal streak extends for one-fourth the length of the wing
longitudinally below the median nervure. Secondaries pale reddish-
luteouB, contracted, in their much paler color, with the dark primaries;
entirely immaculate.

Under surface of both pair, immaculate. The primaries are covered
with brighter, more reddish scales than their upper surface ; secoDda'
lies paler, ooncolorous with their upper surface. Head, caputal append-
ages and thorax, immaculate, nearly concolorous with primaries above.
Abdomeo somewhat paler than thorax, without markings. Two speci-
mena. Exp. % , 1.00 inch. Length of body .40 inch.

Habitat.— CahsL, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 474, Poey'i MSS. Cutalngue.

OBOCOTA, Hubner.
Oioaote kuoi, n. s. (FUt« 4, fig. 2, ; .)

Size large. Palpi moderately exceeding the "front;" a ntenaie slen-
der and rather long. Tawny fulvous. Anterior wings. straight along
internal margin; costal margin arcuated, depressed at apex; external
margin very moderately oblique, nearly straight. Squaumation ob-
scure tawny fulvous, presenting dark rejections from the discal spot

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and sub-basal ban J of the under surface. Except a basal, longitudiDal,
vbitUh streak, bordered finely by dark acalee, the anterior wiogs show
no distloct markings of any kind. Posterior wings fulvous, wilh a red-
dish tinge, which latter obtains principally at the apices and along ter-
minal margin, and with distinct, black, interrupted faacise. A conti-
nued, angulated, broad, black sub-ba«tl band, not attaining costa.
Beyond, a wide, sub-luniform, black discal spot. A sub-terminal, broken,
macular, black band.

Under surface fulTons, with a. reddish tinge on both pair. Primaries
with a broad, sub-basal, transverse band, a large black disoal spot, and
an obsolete, sub-terminal series of black dots. Ou the secondaries the
markings of the upper surface are exactly re-produced.

Caputal and thoracic 3quammation,unicoloraus with primaries; former
with a faint reddish tinge. Abdomeo, paler, obsoletely marked with
blackish on the segmenia above. Legs, finely scaled, with a faint grey-
ish shade on the tarsi; inwardly the tibiee and femora are clothed with
reddish fulvous squammation. Ksp. y , 1.25 inch. Length of body,
0.45 inch.

nalilat.-~Caha, (Poey.") Coll. Ent. Soc, Philad.

(fumher 1024, Poey's MSS. Catalogue.
Crocota diaparilii, n. s.

Palpi rather stout, moderately exceeding the "front," depressed;
antennEe moderate, shorter than in C. Iteroa. Anterior wings straight
along internal margin ; costal margin arcuate, depressed at apex, which
latter is determinate, the external margin sloping away from it inwardly,
thence outwardly rounded to internal angle. Upper surface of prima-
ries rich, intense brown, with whitish, unequal maculations; one of
these latter at extreme base, one on the disc, beneath this last is a third,
the largest and most prominent. A fourth is placed subcoatally before
the terminal space. These spots are variable, and hardly afford a spe-
cific character, except in a general sense. The terminal space is paler
than the rest of the wing, and neatly defined, Posterior wings bright
fulvoQS, resembling closely those of C. heros, m., shaded with reddish
and fasciated with black. A broad angulated basal band, beyond which,
a broad black discal spot; a sub-terminal interrupted macular band.

Under surface of anterior wings dusky, evenly covered with reddish
eoalea; a broad, black, transverse, sub-basal hand, bordered with a pale
shade; a reduced black discal spot; sub-terminally an obsolete series
of blackish points. Under surface of secondaries exactly re-producing
the markings of the upper snrface.

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Head and thoracic parta above, rich, dark brown, concolorous with
primaries. Abdomeo, fulvous, witb indeterminate dark markinga on
the segineDts above. Iiega at base and basal palpi joints, clothed with
reddish scales. Three specimens agree perfectly, escept that the sub-
terminal spot on tbe upper anrface of primaries is absent in a single
specimen. Exp. 9 1.15 inch. Length of body, 0.40 inch.

^.ifciVa^— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soe. Pbilad.

Number 227, Poej/'i MSS. Catalogue.

Resembles C. guiaaria Grote, (of which species I regard C. choroina
Reakirt, as a synonym) but is sufficiently distinguished by ita larger
size, the less oblique external margin of tbe primaries and their very
differaat coloration, as well as the ornamentation of the secondaries
which curiously resemble those of C. herot, m., a species otherwise
quite distinct.

niEIUEISA, Habner.
trtaOieisa bella.

Tinta bella, Linn., Bfst. Nat. p. 885. (ITST.)
Noctua omatrix, Linn., Byst. Nut p. 83». (ITBT.)

belta, Drurj, Exot, Vol. ], p. 61, Plate 24, fig. 3. (1770.)

WTiairix, Drury, Eiot. Vol. 1, p. SI, Plate 24, fig. 2. (1770.)

Bombi/x be/la, Fabrlciua, SysL Ent. p. 58i. (IT75.)

Bombi^x omatrix, FabriciuB, Syst Ent p. 586. (1775.)

PhaliCM bella, Cramsr, Eitot Vol. 2, p. 20, Plate 109, fij. C— C. (1779.)

Fhalarui omalrix, Cramer, Eiot. Vol. 2, pp. 107—108, PlaU 186, figa. C, D, F.

(1779.)
Bonbyx bella, Fabr., 8p. Ina. Vol. 2, p. 203. (1T81.)
Bombt^x omatrix, Fabr., Sp. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 203. (1781.)
Bombi/x beUa, Fabr., Mant. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 131. (1787.)
Sonibi/x omatrix, Fabr., Mant. Ina. Vol, 2, p. 131. (1787.)
Somijr bella, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Vol, 3, p. 479. (17B3.)
Bomiyx omatrix, Fabr., Ent, Byat. Vol. 3, p. 47S. (1783.)
Uietheiaa bella, Hubner, Ven. achiuett. p. 188. (1816.)
Uiellie»ia omatrix, Hubner, Vert Sohmett, p. 188. (1816.)
Uihetheisa omatnx, Hilbn., Samm. Eiot. 8chm. Vol. 2, Lap. 3, Phal 2, Ver, 4.

(1808—1824.)
Deiopeia bella, Weatw. Ed. Drory, Vol. 1, p. 46, PI. 2*, flg. 3. (1BS7.)
Dewptia omatrix, Wegtw. Ed. Drury, Vol. 1, p. 40, Fl. 24, fig. 2. (1837.)
Deioptia bella, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. PL 8, p. 568. (1854.)
Deiopeia omatrix, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Pt. 8, p. 567. (1854.)
Deiopeia speeioaa. Walker, C. B. M. Lep. PI. 8, p. S68. (1854.)
Deiopeia bella, Morris, Bya. Lep. N. A. p. 251, App. p. 313, (1860.)
Deiopeia bella, Harris, Ina. Inj. Veg. new ed. p. 342, Fl. 6, flg. 3. (1B62.)
UUthei»a bella, Pack., Byn. U. S. Bomb. Proo. EnL Boc. Phil. p. lOS. (1864.)

I believe that Fabricius' question is regard to (/. ornatrix, " An satis
distincta a B. bella?" will have to be answered in the negative. I
have before me thirteen Cuban specimens (% and $ ) of (^. beUa from

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Prof. Poey'e collection, which show an extent of vsTiation that leaves
no doubt on my mind that U. omatrix is merely a form of that speeies.
To a gpecitnen which actually corresponds with the figures of U. oma-
trix of Drury, Cramer and Hiibner, and which I have also received
from the West Indies, there is a perfect gradation of obsoleseence in
the markings of the upper surlace of the primaries, from the typical
form described under the specific name of bella, by Linnsena. The
first specimen above U. omafrix, eihibita one or two disconnected dots
of the transverse macular bands of U. bella; in this specimen the pos-
terior wings correspond esactlywith the figures and with the specimen
of U. orttatrix, which I have before me. The markings of the posterior
wings are so variable that no specific character can be drawn from their
ornamentation. From a epecinien in which these are largely taken up
with black bands and markings, to one entirely pink, with no black,
except a narrow broken terminal line, there exist all sorts of variation,
too numerous to describe, but sufficiently ta be understood by the two
extremes. The under surface presents no specific characters by which
the two species might be separated, neither do the caputal, thoracic and
abdominal parts. I seem, therefore, authorized to unite these two spe-
cies, while I am not decided as to the value to be acceded to the form
hitherto known as X7. ornatrix; intermediary individuals will probably
prove as plentiful as either form, and it is perhaps better to consider
them all as constituting one variable species which may retain the name
of Utetheiia bella. I am doubtful that Deiopeia upectosa Walker, is dis-
tinct from the present species. The description in the C. B. M. is in-
sufficient to separate the species frOTu D. bella; indeed it corresponds
accuratelywith the specimens of 2>.ie//a from Cuba, in which the usually
orange-colored primaries are more or less red or pink. With regard to
Ke(Aci»a(^)o'area,(Deiopeiaaurea Fitch}supposIng Dr. Fifch's generic
reference to he correct, I must consider it to be a distinct species, having
seen no approximation to the description in the specimens of U. bella
that I have hitherto examined, while its smaller size indicates its spe-
cific distinctiveness, since i^. bella is remarkably constant in alar ex-
panse. I refer to some interesting remarks on the variability of U.
heUa, by Dr. Packard, in his paper on the Bombycidss of the United
States, and briefly mention here an extraordinary accidental variety
Thich I find among Prof Poey's specimens. This is a female speci-
men in which the anterior wings display the normal ornamentation of
U. bella, though the ground color is red, (/>. tpedoM Walker) not
orange-yellow, but the secondaries are sub-hyaline with pale testaceous

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delicate sqnammation, while the nervoles are diS'usedly covered with
pink scales, the latter color obtaining on the coata and along internal

Babitat—Cab&, (Poey) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phtlad.
Number 207, Poty't MSS. Cataiogm.

CTD08U, Westvood.
Ojdoai^ nobiUtolla.

Tinea nobilitella, Cramer, Exot. Vol. 3, p. 128, PI. S64, fig. G. (1782.)
Crameria nobilis, HUbner, Verz. Schm. p. 188. (1818.)
Qrtfosio nobiHIella, Weatw., " Nat, Libr. PI. 24, fig. 2."
C^ofia nobilitella, Walker, C. B. M. Lep, Pt. 2, p. 624. (1854.)

A specimen from Rio Janeiro in the Society's Collection does not
differ from the Cuban, except that the larj^er white maculations in the
terminal space of the anterior wings are comparatively reduced in size.
The type of Hiibner'a genus Crameria, haa been removed to ^jocera
by Boisduval and made the type of Cliarilina by Mr, Walker, Exp.
9 , 1,25 inch. Length of body, .50 inch.

Habitat. ~-G\i\>&, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 613, Poey't MSS. Catalogue.

Sub-Family, ARCTIID^.

AMMALO, Walker.
Ammala impunctni, nov. sp.

% . ReddtBb-ochraceous, with a slight pale stone-colored reflection.
Anterior wings without distinct markings; a prominent longitudinal
diacal fold. A [uniform pale reddish spot beyond the diacal cell; two
aeries of similar colored, irregular spots between tho nervules in the
terminal space, the upper series parallel with the margin, the lower (in
which ihe first maculatiou is situate in the interspace between the se-
cond and third inferior nervoles) is inversely oblique, the first macula-
tion situate within the last of the first series, and the last immediately
in the margin above internal angle. The»e maculations are normally
six in number, three in each series, are faint and hardly disturb the
anicolorousness which the wings present. Thewhole wing is indistinctly
marbled with darker shade streaks; fringes short, darker colored. Be-
neath, the eoatje are stoue -colored, and tho entire sarfaoe covered with
pale reddiah-ochraceous scales, faintly reflecting the ornamentation of
the upper surface ; at base, below oosta, some longer, brighter colored
scales. Posterior wings, pale reddiah-ochraceous, immaculate, thinly
clothed with scales, unicoloroua, since nowhere is the coloration per-
ceptibly deepened; fringes, short, darker colored. Antennie long,

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deDsely and evenly pectinated; the elender pectinations are long, and
gradually aad slightly decrease to the tips. Head reddish -ochraceons,
impunctate. "Collar" with a slight atone-colored or ohscure alaty-
brownish sl/ade, impunctate. Te^lee reddish-ochraceous, frioged in-
wardly with dull brownish hairs. Thoracic disc, browoish. Abdomen
pale dull reddish-ochraceous, with fine, distinct, very dark brown bands
above ; the first and second basal, not continued across ; longer sub-tufts
of hair clothe the abdomen above at base and extend over the first and
second segmentary bands, thus rendering them incomplete. Palpi,
prominent, exceeding the front, third article conical, finely scaled, basal
articles clothed with rather bright reddish longer scales. Under tho-
racic parts, clothed with rather bright reddish squammation. Tongae,
long, testaceous. Legs, with minute spurs on the middle and hind
tibijB, well developed ; femora clothed with rather bright reddish squam-
mation ; tibfe and tarsi pale brownish.

9 . Besembles the male. The markings on the upper surface of an-
terior wings are more obscured ; the luniform spot beyond the dieo is
obsolete. Antennae, longer than in the male, with very short and fine
pectinations. Esp. £ , 3.00 inch. Length of body, 1.10 inch. Esp.
2 , 3.30 inch. Length of body, 1.20 inch.

HahilaL—CMhsi, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. PhOad.

JVumber 187, Po>'y-» MSS. Cataloyue.

From the character of Cramer's figure of Ammalo Helops, from Su-
rinam, I csn relyupon the following difierences which seem to separate
the two allied species. The vertex, tegulce and base of the anterior
win^ show very distinct, large, black dots in A. I{eiop», which are en-
tirely wanting in A. impunctua, m. The pre-basal abdominal bands are
carried entirely across; the posterior wings are much darker and
brighter, the markings of the upper surface of anterior wings are quite
different in detail, while the two species are very similar in general
coloration. This species shares the characters laid down for the genus
by Mr. Walker, but the antennee are more plumose in the $ than indi-
cated in the diagnosis; the discal fold, prolonged beyond the cell, is
very distinct; the abdomen extends a little beyond the secondaries;
the genital structure is quite concealed. The typical species of Hub-
ner's genus Fdochgta are genericallj distinct from A. llelops, which
he associated with them. According to Cramer, the % antennae of A.
Helops are " plumac^s," agreeing with % A. ■mipunctvs, m., while those
of the 2 are "filifbrmes" as, indeed, they are represented in the Plate,
where they are shorter, slenderer and darker colored than those of 5 A.

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impuneltu. These organs ia % ^ A. impvnetut, are dark testsceoni!,
not bicolorous, as are thoee of A. /ervidua Walk., as iadieated by the
description of the latter in the British Museum Liete, while generally,
the differences presented by Mr. Walker's description of his species
(of which the habitat ia unknown), ore too great to allow of its being
united with the Cuban species I have just described.

BFILOMIU, 8l«[>)ieD>.
tpiloioma juiilBB.

Arctia jussiaa, Poev. Cent. Lepidop. de I'iile de Cuba. (1932.)
Spiloioma jva»iaa, Walker. C. B. M. Lep. Ft. 8, p. 879. (1B&4.)
SprhaomaJutsuBr, Clem., Proc. Acad. N. Bci. Phil. p. S32. (1860.)
Very nearly allied to Spilusoma eirginica, and I have great difficulty
in separating it from its Northern ally, nevertheless I believe it to be
a distinct and representative species. The chamctcre assigned to it by
Prof. Poey will not separate it from S. virginica ; I record the follow-
ing differences which I regard as of specific value. The under surface
of the antennal stem is paler ( £ and 9 ) in S.Jussieea, this is bkckiab
in S. virginiea. The terminal palpal joints seem stouter aud are paler
in S.jvttixK, in which the fore femora and coxae are not so distinctly
maculate. There are no terminal spots ou the under surface of the
secondaries in the Cuban specimens. With the exception that the pri-
maries above seem not so purely white, and that the internal angle
seems slightly more rounded, I see no further differences, while the
Cuban species is a little smaller sized. I am sure, that unless very
critical discrimination is exercised, the two species will be readily
confounded. This species seems strictly a representative one, while
the course pursued by some naturalists with regard to such species,* in
considering them as geographical varieties, is, I think, incorrect. The
specific element will probably preserve these external characters and
prevent them from becoming evanescent. I am not asserting that my
discriminations between the species at present nnder consideration are
absolute, but if the paler antennal under surface of S. juMieem, is a con-
stant character as opposed to the equally constant blackish coloration
of the same part in S. vin/inrca, I believe that the specific element is
as well preserved through this eiternal manifestation as if one were
banded with all possible shades of colorational distinction. Four
(i t 9 9 ) spceimens of S. jvsgixee examined. Exp. % and 9 , 1.70
to 1.80 inch. Length of body, 0.60 to 0.75 inch.
Sabital.—Cnha,, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soo. Pbilad.
dumber 112, iVy'« MSS. Catalogue. '

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EOPA>THESIA, HUbner.
BoputliBria tlbiwrnti, n. b. (Plate 4, fig. 4, 9 .)

The GubaD species is readily dislibgniahed from E. tcribania Hiib.
by its smaller size, white antennn and the shape of the % posterior
wioga, since these are but slightly produced at anal angle, being similar
to those of the 9 in this respeeh These characters, either singly or
together, will equally separ*e E. albicomis, from the species described
by Mr. Walker/in the Sritish Museam Lists, with the the exception of
E. nmplex Walker, which is from a different locality, and in which
the abdomen is said to be "orange above, white at the tip, with brown
and whit« bands at the base, and with a row of blue spots along each
side." Hence the species differs markedly from the Cuban species in
which the abdomen is cyaneous above, with narrow bands, and resem-
bling somewhat that of E. scribonia.

Head, clothed with white scales between the anteante and behind,
immaculate. Lower clypeal surface, beneath the antennal insertion,
covered with pale blackish scales. Palpi, clothed with pale blackish
scales. AntennSB, entirely white above, from the base to the tips; be-
neath, the articular appendages, in both sexes, are pale brownish.
"Collar" white, with two sublateral, approximate, brownish annul).
Patagia, white; an incomplete anuulus in front, which is generally
joined on the inner mai^n to a second, larger and occupying the pos-
terior half of the tegulte. Normally there are six irregularly shaped
annuli on the thoracic disc, which latter is white. Abdomen dark cy-
aneoas-blue above, with brownish and whitish basal hairs. The sub-
basal and median segments narrowly banded with yellow anteriorly.
Sometimes these yellow bands are sub-obsolete, the yellow hairs being
gathered dorsally into determinate maculationa. Anal segments, entirely
cyaneous; anus clothed with dark brownish or pale blackish halts.
Beneath, white, sometimes with a few brownish scales. Thoracic parts
beneath, with mixed whitish and brownish burs; legs white, all the
femora, tibise and tarsi, spotted with brownish.

Wings, whitish ; anterior pair crossed by six bands of unequal brown-
ish annuli, the fourth, from the base of the wing, broken beyond the
disc, where a few additional annuli are variously clustered. The pos-
terior wings are more thinly covered with scales; costal marks distinct,
and there is generally a short terminal series of brownish marks below
costal angle, within which sometimes a series of brownish annuli, more
or less filled in with dark scales. In the male this inner band is some-
times wanting, when the wings are destitute of markings, except those
00 the costa and terminally below costal angle. The anal angle is but'

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sli°:htly prodnced in either ses. The hind wings vary slightly in all
the specimeDS of either sei that I have before me, and sometimes C 7 )
the wing is traversed by four uodulate, aonalate bands. Soiuetiiues
(£ ) the thoracic anDuli are filled in. Sis specimens (%%%l99)
eKamincd. Esp. % , 1.40 to l.TO inch; ? , 2.00 inch. Length of
body, 12 5, 0-70 to 0.80 inch. ' ^

Habitat.— CvLhn, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 191, Foe/g JtiSS. Catalogue.

BUFSETDOBOKA, nov. gen.

% . Frimarieii large, triangulate, apices produced. Costa very
straight; external margin oblique; iDternal angle rounded, iui promi-
nent; internal margin short. Costal margin twice as long as internal
margin. Xervules straight; discal cell open. First, second and third
m. nervnies springing very nearly from one point; fourth, not greatly
removed from the third. Sub-median nervure bent upwards beyond
its middle towards fourth m. nervule, hence the course of this nervure
in Eupteudosoma is opposed to that in Spilosoma. Secondaries re-
duced, somewhat quadra ngul a te ; costal margin roundedly convex;
external margin straight. (The neuration is undistingaishablej owing
to the condition of the specimen.) Body, Btont, finely scaled. The
squHmmatinn is close and short. Head, prominent; eyes, large; epicra-
nium broad behind. Prothoracic parta rounded towards the caputal
base, well advanced before the insertion of the primaries. Thorax, glo-
bose and elevated. Abdomen, stout, closely scaled, exceeding the secon-
daries. The anal segment is wanting in the single specimen I have
before me. Maxillfe moderate; labial palpi finely scaled, not exceed-
ing the " front ; " legs rather stout, finely scaled, provided with minute
spurs. An(«nnse long, bi-serrate, tapering to the tips, the serrations
short, acute and rather distant.

This genus is allied to Idalus Walker, with the given characters of
which, the single species very nearly agrees, but on comparing niy spe-
cies with the figures of Idalus admirahilis, I do not believe that, though
allied, the two species are congenerical.
EapMiido*oma nivmiin, tnihi.

? Charicleal niuea, Herrioh-Sohffiffer, Lap. Ezot.%.2TB, J . (1860-18S8.)

Wings, white. Primaries closely and sparsely covered with a uni-
form white squummation; a very few scattered dark scales. Deneuth,
beyond basal third, a few scarlet scales on internal margin. Seconda-
ries white, sparsely scaled; a few longer scarlet hairs within internal
margin. Beneath, white, immaculate. Thoracic region above, whitish.

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with a very few scnttered dark scales. Hea<l, with two fnintly blackish
spots, faintly yellowish between the antennie; thoracic and abdominal
Burfikce beneath, finely scaled, whitish. Abdomen above, scarlet, with
a dorsal, whitish, interrupted line. Jjegs, whitish; outer surface of
middle and posterior tarsi and tibiae, pale brownish.

I find DO description or locality for the species in Herrich-SchteSer's

Eip. % , 1.40 inch. Length of body, 1.70 inch.

ffahitat.—Cnha, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 845, roe/i MSS. Catalogue.

BOBIHBONIA, dot. gen.

Allied to ITafisidofa in the shape of the wings, but difiering by their
close squammation, and otherwise structurally throughout. Antennse
shorter in the male, with very long and slender pectinntions, arranged
on both sides of the anieanal stem and converging inwardly at their
tips. In the female the ant«Dnse are simple ti) the naked eye, but in
reality each joint is provided with lateral, tufts of rigid scales. Head,
small ; clypeus, narrow, as ia especially the epicranium, compared with
Baliaidota. Maxilla; abort. Labial palpi short, third aitlcle short,
exceeding the front. Primaries narrow; external margin very oblique;
internal margin short. The median nervules are nearer together at
at base than in Halaidota, especially the fourth. Secondaries reduced,
smaller than in Halaidota. But three median nervules. Abdomen
slight, not prominently exceeding the secondaries. T^egs finely scaled.

This genus should apparently fall in between Erpantheria and Halt-

Boliuonla tOnnvIs, n. i. (Plate i, fig. 3, ^ .)

Sand 9 White. Primaries white, with broad, pale brown, distinct
bands. Oue along costs widening at apical third, diminishing thence
to apex; one along external margin, continued without interruption
along internal margin to base. An equally wide, slightly sinuate band
tuns obliquely across the wing, emanating from the costal band at basal
third, sod joining the external marginal band above internal angle.
Sometimes this diagonal band is connected with that on the internal
margin, beyond its middle, by accessory brown scales.

Secondaries, white, immaculate. Under surface, resembling upper.
Head, yellowish-white on the "front" and above, between theantennee.
Prothoracic pieces, white, edged with brown hairs. Disc of the thorax,
brown,with some whitish hairs posteriorly. Tcgul», white, edged with
brown scales. Abdomen, brown ish-oinereous, darker in the male than

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in tbe feiDale) beneath, with the lej^, paler. Anterior tibin, brownish
outwardly. Three (% ? ?) Bpecimens. Exp. I and 9, 1.45 inch.
Length of body, % and 7 , 0.60 inch.

ffii6d«(.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc, Philad.

Number 162, Pofg's MSS. Oatnlogue.

I have named this prettj genus after my friend, tbe Entomolc^iHt,
Coleman T. Robinson, Esq., of New York City.

KAUBIOOIA, Hikboer.
Balliidota elnetlp*!, n. g.

Nearly allied to Halmtfota te»sellarit Hilb., but beautifully distinct,
and readily distinguished by the general darker color, tbe wider, darker
and more distinctly mai^ined bands on tbe primaries, tbe darker an-
teoneeand palpi, and the distioctly banded lege. Tbe specimens de-
scribed by Mr. Walker as J{. tesnel/arit, beloDij to this species which
extends into Mexico sod probably occurs througbont South America.

Pale brownish testaceous — Halitidola tegsellaru is yellowish testace-
ous — bead, lai^^er than in its ally, in the 9 tbe lower clypeal half, be-
neath the aDtennal insertion , is brownish. Terminal palpal joints, black-
ish, longer, and the entire palpus more prominent than in HalU'tdott
temellarii, lower joints banded with blackish, and with ocbraceous scales
on their outward surface. In the 9 1 the palpi arealmost entirely black-
ish, narrowly interrupted with ochraoeouBon their outward surface. Tho-
racic surface, brownish-t«staceous; tegulse, bordered inwardly with dark
dull olivaceous hairs ; disc of the thorax with a longitudinal greenish
stripe. Tbe " green " color is darker and more obscure than in H. teg-
lellaris, &iid is not equally distinct in all tbe specimens I have. Abdo-
men, ochraceous, anal segments brownish, thus differing in the latter
character from H. teuellaru. Beneath, whitish clay-color, without the
yellowish shade on the under thoracic parts which characterisea its ally.
Legs, very distinctly banded with brown bands, analagoua to those on
primaries, with distinct margins. Femora, tibise and tarsi, all banded.

Anterior wings, dull pale brownish-testaceous, tra»ersed by five gemi-
nate brown lines as in B. lessellariM, while tbe spaces enclosed by
these lines are covered with darker scules tbao in its ally, being
strongly filled in on costa. The reniform, bis-annulate spot, at the
outer extremity of the discal cell, is disconnected from the costal spot
above it, and is filled in with dark scales.

Secondaries, darker than in//. tesseRaris; apices with 1 distinct ter-
minate mark. Exp. £ , 1.60, 9 2.03 to 2.20 inch. Leogth of body,
% , 0.60, 9 0.70 to 0.80 inch.

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Bahitat. — Cuba, (Poey.) Collection Entom. Society, Philadelphia.

Namhr.r 186, Poey't MSS. Catalogue.

One 9 specinieD is labelled " Vera Crus." Mr. Walker gives an ex-
tended habitat for this apecies. The United States apeoime&s in the
British Museum Collection probably belong to H. tetsfUarU, the others,
including the specimen from Yeneauela from which Mr. Walker drew
np the description of H. UttellarCi, belong to H. cinctipe*. I have no
doubt.
EalUldota mibaiuii, n. sp.

Primaries irregularly and entirely mottled with brownish and pale
streaks. A few brighter scales on internal margin at base, where the
markings are more determinate. Secondaries senii-trantiparent, the
scales slightly aggregated along the terminal margin. Internal margin
sparsely covered with lunger and paler scales. Under surface of both
wings without prominent coloration, merely discolorous.

Palpi, long and prominent, paler beneath, laterally darker colored.
" Front," brownish; base of antennfe, pale, and between these a trans-
verse line of pale scales; behind, covered with brown scales. Frotho-
racic pieces brown, edged with pale and pale vermillion hairs. Tegulce,
brown, broadly margined inwardly with pale scales. Disc of the thorax
brown, mixed with pale hairs arranged longitudinally. Abdomen, pale
vermillion above. An obsolete dorsal row of brown spots, observable
in certain specimens towards the anus. Anal hairs entirely brown.
Laterally, tt double row of distinct brown segmentary spots. Beneath,
immaculate, whltlah cream-color, l^egs, whitish ; all the femora pale
vermillion on their inward surface. Five coincident specimens. Kxp.
$ and 9 , 1.80 to 2.10 inches. Length of body, 0.70 to 0.80 inch.

^a6rta(.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soo. Philad.

ATwrniw- 611, Poeff't MSS. Catalogue.

Resembles the description of Hali'sidota (^Haleiufota') itn'goiaV^ali.,
from Jamaica, but the under abdominal surface has not " four rows of
black spota." There are other differences which prevent its reference
to that species, as will be seen from a comparison of Mr, Walker's de-
scription with that of Haliiidola cvhensh,

EUEALISIDOTA, dot. gen.

Sise somewhat larger than Hulitulota, wbioh the single species re-
sembles, but is sufficiently distinguished by the shape of the wings and
the neurational characters. Costa straight, not so depressed before the
apices as in Baligidota; external margin evenly rounded, not excavate
below the apices; internal angle rounded and not prominent. The

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first and second median nerrnles ariae from one point, the third fnrtliOT
removed and thus reHembling the dispoaition of these nervales in Hulv3i-
dota, but the fourth m. nervule spring* from the m. nervure at about
tiie middle, henoe is much further removed towards the base of th«
wing than in Ila/itiiJola, Secondaries, well-sized, with acute apices;
external margin evenly rounded, very slightly excavate before anal
angle. The third m. nervule is well removed from the point from
whence the first and second spring, while the foorlh is greatly removed
towards the base of the wiog. All the nervulea further apart, render-
ing the interspaces and the entire wing relatively wider.

Head, large and pressed against the prothoiacic parts; clypeus, sab-
triangulate, narrowing towards the base, wider than in Ualiiiilota.
Palpi, prominent, porrect, held apart, apic^il joints slender and short,
inclined forwards. Maxilla, moderato. Autennse, rather long, finely
and shortly pectinate to their tips ( $ ). Basal sockets, large and pro-
minent. Pi-otboracic, [Heces narrow. Thorax, globoee and elevated.
Abdomen stout, exceeding the secondaries) genitab concealed; anal
segment greatly and suddenly narrowed ( 9 ).

The eqnammation is thin and powdery, not fioe and close as in Ha-
lUidota; the single species is pale jellowisb clay-col<red, irregularly
sprinkled with black dots on the primaries and ov^ thorLioic r^icm
above.
Eahaliiidota Inxa, n. sp. (Plate 4, fig. 5. ?.)

9 . Very pale yellowish teslaceous. Primaries, marked with irregu-
lar and sparse black powdery dots; these are plainer on the costa and
form two interrupted geminate bands at basal third, of which the second
is irregularly continued to internal margin, while the first is apparently
discontinued below the median nervure. Beyond, two central black dots.
The apical third of the wings, irregulnrly and aparsely sprinkled with
small black dots, congregated beyond the extremity of the discal cell.
The ground color of the wing shows do darker shades, being nnicolor-
oos whitish clay-coliff.

Secandaries, pale testaceona, semi-traDnpareot. The scales are laid
on eveuly and thinly ; the internal mai^in fringed with longer hairs.
No markings or shades of any kind.

Under surface of primaries whitish testaceous, resembling upper sur-
&ce in coloration, and without markings of any kind.

Head, and upper thoracic parts like primaries in coloration ; ''' fnAt"
irith a few dark isolated scales, which do not prevent the appearance of
vntooloronaness; " collar" with central black scales on both sides; t€^ai

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with ceotral black marts; disc of the thorax, a little darker, with Mat-
tered black scales.

Abdonneo, darker, slightlj ochreons above; paler beneath. I detect
no prominent markiagB, but in the individual I have under obaervation
it is BoDiewlmt rubbed. Legs, colored like the body; inward eurfuce of
anterior femora, distinctly ochraceoua. £ip. % , 2.50 inches. Length
of body, 1.00 inch.

H-ibitat.~-C\xha, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. 8oc. Philad.

Nianber 1042, I'oefi MSS. Catalogue.

It ia possible, that among the species of Halitidota described by Mr.
Walker in the British Museum Lists, more material belonging to this
genus will be found. From the descriptions, the species cannot be re-
lerred to any of these.

P&SECCEJBTE8. nov. g«n.

The Cuban species differ frum Euchxtet egle, in the closer, more
sparae squammation, which becomes sub-diaphanous on the secondaries.
The neuration very nearly agrees ; the secondaries are hardly so full,
the internal nervures more propiaquitous. The head and thoracic
parts are more finely scaled. Head wider behind, more prominent;
palpi smaller, not exceeding the front. The fringes on the wings are
shorter thun in E. egle. Tlie distinctioual characters that I have ob-
served seem to warrant the erection of the new genus.
Parmiek«tM oadaverMa. nov. sp.

Pale dull yellow. Primaries, pale dull yellow, immaculate above and
beneath. Secondaries, paler than the primaries, immaculate above and
beneath, sub-diaphanous. Body, closely ecaled. Head, with a more
ochreous shade. Prothoracic pieces, tegulte and thorax, concolorons
with primaries. .\.bdomen of a deeper, more ochreous yellow ; a dorsal
eegnientary series of dark brownish spots. A single reduced lateral
series of Bpot«. Beneath much paler. Under thoracic surface and
legs, yellowish. Tarsi and anterior and middle tibi», brownish. An-
tennie brown, with st^ut, short pectinations, produced from the uuder
surface. Id the female the pectioatioDS are shorter, but quite distinct.
Four speoiiuens ( & % 9 9 )■ Gxp. % , 1.30 to liO, 9 1.40 inoh.
Length of body, % and 9 , O.liO inch.

.H"aJifri(.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. 8oo. Philad.

Number 406, Foes'* MSS. Catalogue.
ParaashatM aflnii, nov. sp.

Very nearly allied to P. eadcuernsa, but I regard it as a distinct
species. Smaller, of a more clayey yellow, entirely immtciihUe; no

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abdominal maoulations in either sex. The antennse are paler brown ;
in the female, the pectinatioDs are very niaute, bo mnch redaced as to
appear to be waating to the naked e;e, and it needs a tolerably strong
magnifier to discoTOr (he Blight processes which emanate from the an-
tennal articles. In the male specimen, the antennsB are defective ;
enough remaina of them to show that these are more strongly pectinate
than in the female. Two ( % and 9 ) specimens. Exp. I and 9 , 1.20
inch. Length of body, 0.40 inch.

Halnlat.—CuU, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soo. PWllad,

Number 406, " var." Pofg'* MSS. Calaiogtu.

^UIHALES, Foe^.
EtithalM gvaooUa.

Eriihalea gnacoida, T<^^y, Cent. Lepid. Cuba, Decade 2. (ISSZ-)
Erithales guaeolda, Walkar, CbI. B. M. Lep. Pt. 7, p. 18S8. (J8&6.)

Two ( i and S ) specimens.

This interesting species has been well figured by Prof. Poey, and the
characters of the genus explained. The specimens before me are mucli
paler than in the figure, probably for the reason that, with other ma-
terial it) the present collection, they have become faded through age.

H'tbitat—'Jah^, (Poey.) Coll. Eot. Soc. Philad.

Number 511, i'wy'* MSS. Catalogue.

Sub-Family, DASYCHIR^.

BUPEOCTIB, Hubner.
latirMtli arpntiflna.

Evprociii argealijliia, HUbner, Bitmm. £xat. Schm. Lep. S, Bomb. 2. Ver. J,
Leu. A, Alb. 2. (1800—1834.)

Euproctia argentiyhui. Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Ft T, p. 1739. (IS&S.)
Two Bpecimens, J, and $ .

Habitat.— €al», (Poey.) Coll. Eut. Soc. Philad.
Number 79 Poeg't MSS. Catahgue. '

nrroa iBUnMnlata, hot. gen. at. sp.

Under the number 229, Prof. Poey sends specimens of a species dif-
fering generically from E. argentifiua. This small species is entirely
milk-white; the corporal parts are finely scaled; head narrower across
the vertex than in Evproetii; antennie simple. The sub-ovoid cocco-
net acconipaaies the specimens. This is fiattened beneath, of firm tex-
ture, and with a circular lid at the smaller end, through which the
imagine makes its escape. The delicate shell of the chrysalis protrudes
through the opening. This genus, which is smaller than Evproclu,
■hows evident affinity with those Limedodes with simple aoteonte, and
resembles casually a glistening white crambid with veiy long wings

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Beat under the number 573. Exp. % , 1.20 inch. Length of body,
.40 inch.

Habitat.— CuU, (Poey.) Coll. Eot. Soc. Philad.

Vlosala ctetata Grot«, from Louisiana, evidently occnpies an inter-
mediate position between JCvpTOcti* and Lagoa. It resembles the
former gennn in the Bquammation and in the silky whiteness of the
wings, while the antennal structure alliea it closely with Lagoa erupafa,
Packard. The scales so closely hide the wings of these species, that
neurational characters are imposubly to be observed without the de-
struction of the specimens.

Sub-Family, PSYCHID^.

(ECETIOirs, Gailding.
(Emtieu Fotyl,

Oikelicua Fo^t, Luoss, (Aulh. Poej.)

I have not seen Lucas' work, in which this species is described.
Judging from the figure of the male (E. Kirbii, Guilding, given in
Griffith & Pidgeon's " Cuvier," Vol. 2, p. U79, Plate 132, fig. 1, % ,
the male of (E. /bi^i differs by ita smaller size, and in that the anterior
wings are more produced apically, tbe external margin more oblique,
while the posterior wings are greatly excavate on external margin. Dr.
Herrieh-SchtBffer figures (E. fulgtrator from Brazil, in the " Lep.
n. a. m. cog.," and this figure nearlya^rees with the Cuban specimens,
and may be the same species. However, it appears to represent a larger
insect, with longer abdomen; there is a basal dash above internal mar-
gin 00 the primaries which is well defined; this is absent in (E. Poeyi,
in which the base of anterior wings at this place has merely a diffuse
darker shade. I have not, sufficient material to judge from, and cannot
say whether all these species are identical or not, while I incline to be-
lieve them distinct. Certainly if (E. Poeifi is distinct from (E. Kirbii,
the species figured, by Dr. Herri ch-Scbteffer is also distinct fromGnild-
ing's species as figured in Q-riff. & Pidg. work above cited.

Dark brown ; the discal field of the primaries largely shaded with very
dark brown. A vitreous irregnlar transverse bar, beyond the discal cell.
Secondaries darker than primaries; external margin greatly concave.

The shell of the remarkable female of this species accompanies the
specimen. Alcoholic material of the latter would be needed, in order
to study its peculiar structure. Eip. % , 1.40 inch. Length of body,
.80 inch.

JfaUlat.—OaiM, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 175, Poe^'t MSS. Catalogue.

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HTIIEVOFBTOHI, nov. gen.
Head small ; compared with (Eieticv* it is loss exscrted, more sunk
in the protltoracic parts, vhich latt«r are more proroinent and elevated
than in its allj. Oral stractDre obsolete. Abdomen, exceedin<; the
secoudariee by half or nearly half its len<!th, stout. The corporal
parts in their entirety are clothed vith upri)^ht, looec, furry squammn-
tion ; tarsi, naked, unftnienlate. Wings, vitreous, or nearly so, very
sparsely covered with scales within the internal margins of either pair;
nervures and costa with scattered scales. Primaries, broad ; costs,
straight; eatemal margin, roundedly oblique; internal uiai^in, short,
the angle rounded. Costal nervnre, simple, joining che costa before
the apex. Snb-eostal nervure, approximate and parallel with costal,
throwing off two nervules to costa, which these join beyond the end of
the costal nervure. A third is thrown off in a straight line to apex,
before which it is furcate. A fourth ncrtule arises near the point from
whence the third is thrown off and runs somewhat dcpressedly to ex-
ternal margin. Fifth springs from the discal cross-vein, well removed
from the fourth. Discal cell large, sub- triangular, traversed longitudi-
nally by a distinct median fold, or thickening of the membrane. A
second, lower fold, springs from the m. nervure and is shortly continued
to the cross-vein, approximate to the point of origin of the first m. nervule.
The cell is closed by a thickening of the membrane, not by a true ner-
vure, since from the origin of the fifth s. c. to that of the first m. the
cross-vein Js obsolete. Median nervure, geminate from itfl base to the
discal cell. First and second m. nervules, thrown off netr together and
divaricating to the margin. Third, thrice farther removed from second,
than second from firat. First m. nervule, furcate before the margin.
Sub-median nervure, prominently slnaate and angulated at (he point of
its greatest distance from internal mai^in, thence running obliquely
downwards to the margin which it joins at internal angle. Secondiv
ries, reduced; external margin, hardly rounded, nearly straight, exserted
before anal angle; the wing is well developed towards internal margin,
which is folded downwards. Costal nervure, arcuate, strong, forming
the upper margin of a large enclosed discal cell. Nervnles extremely
stout. This cell is traversed by a strong fold emanating from the cos-
tal nervnre just beyond the base, and by a median fold similarly ema-
nating from them, nervure. Median nervnre. strong, throwing off first,
second and third short m. nervnles; third, a little farther removed from
second, than second from first, and also longer. Sub-median and in'ternal
nervures, simple, independent, running closely together at baae, sepa-

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rating to externa] margin. Sub-median witli a basal upward projection.
Anteann resembling those of (Eceticui, widely bi-pectinate at basal
hulf, tenninal joints with small serrations, flexuous, recurved.

Female, apterous, vermiform.

Type : (Eceticut coni/erarum, HtrriE.

This genus differs from the closely sculed species of iEceticvt in man;
particulars, though a near ally. It resembles greatly the figure of
Animula dichroa H-S., from Venciaela, and may be identical with It.
Since, however, no specific or generic diagnosis is given of the South
American species, I cannot accept that genus, while the figure differs
in detail. The secondaries are more reduced and rounded, and the
nervulation is different. The first m. nervule of the primaries is not
furcate.* The antennae seem equally pectinate from base to tip, the
latter not fleiuoiis. The genital organs have a different representation.
Hj/metioptj/iJie contains two species, differing slightly from one another
in (% } structure, as indeed is the rule rather than the reverse in the
present Sub-family, as well as in the CeratocampaJx.
Hfinauopiyehs tboraeleDiB, n. b.

Smaller than H. coni/erarum. Wings more sparsely scaled. Tho-
racic region above, and supra capntal parts, clothed with pale, some-
what sericioufi hair. Elsewhere the rather coarse and stout equamma-
tion of this little species is brownish- black. First m. nervule of the
primaries strongly furcate. A cell is formed by an obsolete " vein,"
running from the base of the wing to the angulated portion of the sub-
median nervnre. This is obsolete in my specimens of If. coni/erarvtn.
M. nervure not distinctly geminate at base. Genitals displayed, con-
sisting of a flattened, ootneons, acutely cordate piece, from beneath
which a slender, blunt, longer process is protruded, held in a lower
basal sheath, embraced by the lateral claspers. Two specimens. Exp.
% , 1.00 inch. Length of body, 0.45 inch. $ unknown.

ffahitat.—CuU, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 183, I'oejf'i MSS. Oala(ogtte.

TSTCEOVOCTVA, nov. gen.

In the male the autenuse are short, closely bi-pectinate laterally, to
half their length from the base ; the pectinations are fine and rather
close, and decrease suddenly at the middle of the unteunee, the termi-
nal half of which b provided with very short processes, appearing sim-
ple to the unasMsted eye. Scape moderately prominent and tufted.

* Id a >iagle individual of H. eoniferantm, that I have before me, this furea.
tion ii obsolete on the right prjmarj.

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In the female the eDteoDS nre long and entirely eiinple. The male
antennie are less than balf as long as those of the female, aod bear a
rather close resemblance to those of the % (Scetieui. Head, projected,
but DOt prominently vieible from above; eljpeus broad. Prothoras
well developed ; thorax, flattened above. In the female the bead is
larger than io the male. Labial palpi small in the male, pressed against
the front which they do not exceed in either sex, bnt are more promi-
nent in the female. The maxillae are moderately developed in the
female. I do not detect their presence io the male. Beneath, the
eyes, which are well developed, are approximute. The 9 hind tibiie are
spurred at the base of the joint, and have a lateral, longer spur at about
the middle of the joint. The anterior wings, in the male, are narrow,
not much dilated on external margin. Cost* straight, external maFgin
evenly rounded, short, since it is not oblique, the internal margin being
nearly as lung as the costal margin. Discal cell closed. First and se-
cond m. nervulea sprioging from one point. Third, a little removed.
Fourth, thrown off slightly nearer the third than usual, depressed, since
itjoins the margin at internal angle. Interspaces, narrow. Int«rnulner-
vur3, very sinuate, joining the iDternal margin before the angle. The
internal margin is sinuate, following the course of the nervure. In the
female the external margin is more oblique; the internal margin is
straight; the nervure is straight and joins the external margin at the
internal angle; the median nervules are straighter, longer, the fourth
joins the external margin much before the internal angles. There are
but three median nervules, while the costal nervulation differs markedly.
In the male the c. nervure thrcnrs off three divaricating nervules at the
point of anastomosis with the curved discal cross-vein. In the female
the costal nervulatiiln is normal ; in both sexes a discal nervure is
thrown off from the centre uf the discal cross-vein to external margin.
There is a corresponding disparity between the sexes in the nervula-
tion of the secondaries. Abdomen, tapering in the male, exceeding
the secondaries; genitals concealed.

The structural differences between the two specimens I have before
me are very great, and I with difficulty believe them to belong to one
species. Nevertheless these differences are mostly neurational, if we
except the autennal and, perhaps, the maxillary characters. The two
specimens are sent aa % and 9 of one species by Prof, Poey, under one
number. The general coloration is similar, aquammaiion sparse. In
ease of error, I propose, that the generic and specific names I here
adopt, shall be retained for the male specimen. I am prepared here

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for eztraordinary structure, bidco the genus evidently belongs to that
anomalous group — the Psychidse.
Pt7Blioiio«taa pemnulli, hot. sp.

Whitish cinereous. Oroainentation sub-nbsolete. Id the male some
obscure marblings of brownish scales along internal margin and termi-
nally. Secondaries whitish, without markings. In the female speci-
men there is a terminal line and a series of Bub-t«niiinBl, dark, inter-
spaeeal, short dashes. Secondaries with a broad, diffuse, pale blackish
band along external margiB. Head, thorax and abdomen, whitish cine-
reous, paler, nearly white, in the male. Under surface of thoracic re-
gion, clothed with long whitish hair which is shorter, however, than in
the male. Both specimens are a little rubbed. Exp. S , 1-60 inch;
9 , 2.00 inch. Length of body, % , .80 inch ; 9 , 1.00 inch.

IfaMat.—GahA, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

jVamber 850 Poej/'t AfSS. Calaiwfue.

PEBOFHOKA, Hurris.
Ptrophora Faakordli, n. a. (Plate i, fig. 6, 9 .)

The Cuban species is readily distinguished from P. MeUheimerii
Harris, by its uniform pale brownish color, being entirely without
brighter shades or tints, as well as by the presence of two small super-
poaed vitreous discal spots, which are apparently coalesced in the male.
Entirely pale wood-brown, irroratc with dark scales; irrorations most
prominentwithout the common brown line, which runs across the wings
as in onr Northern species. Apices of primaries more pointed than in
/*. MeUheimerii; external margin rounded to internal angles in both
pair and not excavate before the angles. Very faint traces of the sub-
basal costal mark are visible on the primaries, while the outer common
line is pater, more brownish than in ourspecies. Head, bodyand legs,
concolorouB with the wings, sparsely irrorate with dark scales; in the
female, the abdomen very prominently exceeds the posterior wings.
The male resembles the female in coloration and ornamentation, except
that the vitreous discal spots appear to bo united, while it is considera-
bly smaller. The wings in both sexes are darkest outside of the com-
min fascia, immediately within wfatcb, the primaries show their palest
shade. Exp. % , 1.20, 9 2.00 inches. Length of body, % , .60 inch,
9 1.00 inch.

JTofiiW.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 612, Po^i MiSS. Catalogue.

Prom the excellent and detailed descnption of Perophora Batetn,
given by Mr. Edward Newman, this species widely differs in several

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Htnictaral poInU. The % aDtennfe are not provided vitb the expanded
Bcape, and do not differ from those of P. Meldteimerti. The abdomen,
while exceeding the hind wings, is unprovided with the long, parallel,
porrected, hirsute proeossea, described as characteriEing the male of/",
BaUgii. The coloration also differs.

It is interesting to find this genus represented in Cuha by a distinct
species. The representation of the sob-family is Btructurally very in-
teresting, since it contains four species, belonging to so many different
genera. From a study of the excellent figures given in the anonjDiOQS
work on the Lepidoptere of Suriosm, I see that the " Bomhi/x vorax"
of this unknown author, represents a species allied to ferophora, and
belonging to the present Sub-family.

I have named the Cuban Penrphora after A, S. Packard, Jr., M.
D., whose recent pnpers on the Bombycidie of the United States have
added greatly to our proper appreciation of the most interesting Family
of the Sub-Order.

Sub-Family, PTILODONTES.

HITESOC&MFA, Doubleder.
Ettarooampa Bsbana, noT. up. (Plate 4, fig. T, ?.)

Allied to H. ohliqua Packard, but a more brownish species, wanting
the white sub-apical patch and the greenish shade of the upper surface
of the primaries which characterize our Northern species. The speci-
mens, however, appear to be faded, and the greenish shades in this
genus seem easily lost by age and etiolation. A geminate irregular
sub-basal line. The casta is marked by alternate darker and paler
streaks. Median lines outwardly arcuated, joining below at the middle
of the wing, a long curved interspaceal black dash which is bordered
above by a paler shade; a similar paler shade beyond the median line
above internal margin. This latter shade is bounded outwardly by a
faint line, which appears to be discoDtioued above the linear bkek in-
terspaceal dash. Indistinct lines heyond the disc, discontinued above
the interspaceal dash. An arcuated, black, sub-apical line, joining a
very narrow streak in the interspace above the first m. nervule. A
sub-terminal shade band and narrow terminal line. In the male the
ornamentation is sub-obsolete. Secondarieswhitisb, dusted with brown-
ish scales. Under surface of primaries brownish. Head and thorax
brownish, tegulie with internal dark marginal lines uniting in front.
Abdomen, pale brownish. Antennie shorter than in H. obliqua, the
basal pectinations in the male not extending so far from the antennal

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base. Three ( 5 9 t ) specimenB. Exp. % , 140, 9 1.80 inch. Length
of body, % , 0.75, 9 0.85 inch.

i7a/>i:(a/.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 185, Pom/'i MSS. Catalogve.

CABATHIS, DOT. gen.

Wings uarrov. Primaries, nearly twice as long as wide j costa slif^htly
depressed centrally, arcuated spically; apices, prominent. KElemal
mai^ia, oblique aod moderately sinuate; internal angle, rounded. In-
ternal ma^in, straight. First and second nodiaD aervules springing
from one point, third a little removed, fourth well removed from third.
A discal fold. Secondaries reduced ; costa straight, external margin
slightly and gradually excavate befure anal angle. The wings are
cleanly cut and deprived of fringes. Sqnammation very close and
densely and equally coveriog all the corporal and alar parte. Antennae,
short and stout, tapering, provided with very small pectinations, pro-
duced from beneath the antencal stem. Head, moderate, pressed
against the prothorucic parte. Palpi, prominent, porrect, held free
from and exceeding the front, Epicranium, broad. Froth oracic pieces,
narrow. Abdomen, moderately stout, closely scaled, exceeding the se-
condaries by half its length. Genital organs concealed. Legs, slender,
tninnlely spined on the third tibite. Maxillie, moderate.
Oarathi* ffortTnoilai. (Plate 4, fig. 8, % .)

Rich brown. Primaries evenly covered with brown scales, with clus-
tered white spots, reminding one of the Nootuid genus Gorft/na. Base
with white spots, narrowly divided by brownish scales. Beyond, a yel-
lowish transverse line, sendingout, at ri>;ht angles, a short branch alon^
median nervure. Above and below this branch are white spots; the
upper, spherical, the lower, elongate, sub-pyriform, tapering to internal
margin. At the extremity of this branchlet a small white spot on the
vein. Three prominent costal spots above the dlscal cell. The first,
the largest, white. The middle, outwardly oblique, yellowish, shaped
like an abbreviated band. The onter, the smallest, white. Immedi-
ately below these, on internal margin, a dark yellowish spot. Termi-
nally, an elongated cluster of white spots, narrowly divided by brown
scales; the larger spots placed outwardly, sub-triangulate, fitting into
those on the inner side areaseiies of pale yellowish spots; within these
a series of smaller more oval spots. All these spots are more or less
united in one specimen. Secondaries, pale blackish-brown ; testaceous
along the costa, without markings. Beneath, pale, dull brownish; on
the primaries, the white guttationsof theapper surface are partially re-

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produced. Head brown; a parallel narrow white line craue« the cly-
peiu before the antenDal insertioD. Behind, two large white xpot^,
narrowly separated by dark scales. Thorax, brown, concolorons with
primaries. At the aides, the t^ulie show large white spots. Abdomen,
pale blackiBh-browD ; terminal segments, edged posteriorly with paler
scales of a warmer tint. Beneath, paler, of a warmer hue. Two spe-
cimens. Exp. t, , 1.30 inch. Len^h of body, 0.00 inch.

JIabiUit.--Caba, (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Ifumber 470 J^'t MSS. Ctilaloffue.

Sub-Familj, HEPIALID.E.

Tribe, CosstNT.

ZTLEITTSS, Ilubner.
Zyleatai pigat, nov. ep.

Siie moderate, smaller than X.rolinim, Peck sp. Dark jtrey. Pri-
maries covered with a fine net-work of blackish lines, strongly marked
on oosta and diffused pretty evenly over the entire upper surface of
the wings, leaving, nevertheless, a clear costal space before the apes at
about apical third. In the male the secondaries are entirely black,
except alpng costal mai^in, smaller than in the female; external mar-
gin straight, not roanded. In the female the secondaries resemble the
primaries in ornamentation and coloration, external mai^in slightly
rounded. Antennce blackish. Thoracic parts covered with mixed
grey Hquammation, without determinate markings. Legswhitish, tarx!
and tibiEB clothed with black scales outwardly, aoQulated and spotted
with white. Exp.% ,1.65, 9 1.60 inch. Length of body, ?, 0.86 inch.

Habitat.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coil. Ent. Soc. Philad.

Number 173 Poey'i JIfSS. Gatalixpie.

The female of this species seems to be slighter than the male. The
specimens, though fresh, are defective.

The Tribe Hepialini — curiously resembling the Diarnal Ckionobai,
in the diaphanous and similarly sized anterior and posterior wings, and
somewhat in the shape of these latter — is not represented in the present
eollection. Hvpialiu and its immediate allies, do not appear to be
represented ao fully in the New as in the Old World.

The very moderate representation of the Bombycidte in Cuba — taking
this collection of Prof. Poey's as a basis — allows of bat few comparisons
with the representation of the Family elsewhere, and adds, on the whole,
but little distinctive value to the Cuban fauna, So &r as I am aware,
the Lithosiid genus and species CS/dosia nohiliteUa Westw. with Hali-

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tiihta cUetipei are the only repTeaentatives of the fdmily tli&t occur
likewise on the South American Contjaent. The geographical fona of
our Northern Uuiketia betta Uiibn., described aa Deiopeia tpeciota by
>Ir. Walber, occurs likewise in Jamaica, and is perhaps replaced by
what may be another geographical race of the same speciea — Utelhetia
omatrix — on other Islands of the West Indiaa Archipelago, if not, as
I suspect, associated with it. In the^ircftu/jewe have peculiar species
of AmntaJo, SpUoioma, Ecpanthrriu and Haliddota, which are, so
far as we are aware, confined in their representation to the Island, and
are parti; replaced in Jamaica and other Islaads by allied but distinct
species. One species o? JlalUidota {H. cinch'pe* Grote), seems to find
its northera limit to the eastward aod, as wo go southward from the '
Gulf States, by its substitution for our common ff. tenfUaru Hiibn.,
offers the strongest evidence that we have entered on a distinct Faunal
Province, while it gives no individoaiity to the insular fauna, since it
occurs in South Americaand Mexico. It is not improbable that it will
be taken in Texas, judging from what Is known of the Fauna of that
State. The utter abseuce of Ailaci and Ce.ratoeampida deprives the
Family of what is always its greatest interest and beauty, and for
which DO compensatory valne is offered. The Family has dwindled
and become unimportant, encroached upon by the Zygmaidte, which
here appear in much greater diversity thun in the colder climates of
the Northern American Continent.

Vaw Spwiei and eorrMtioai in the famUy PSZLAPHniJL

After considerable delay, I am able to add the following descriptions
of new species of the family " Pselaphidse " to my former publications :

1. Adranai LaContat, n. ap.— Testae ena, tranalucena, eiipite cjlindrico, thorace
lub-cylindrico, pone medium luteraliter compresao, eljtria angulia apicalibus
niediia et eiternia piloaia, abdomine exuavato, margiuaUi, nd baain in margine
tuberculato. Long I.S m. m.

The general form of this insect is essentially the same aa in A. eoecut
liec, but the head is broader in front, somewhat oboonical, with two
very small approximate tabercles in the middle of the base, the fi^mt
overhangs the face ; without eyes ; the vertex of the male is lon^tndi-
nally bistriate. The last joint of the antennm is a little narrower at
the truncated end. The thorax, seen from above, is cylindrical, longer
than the head, behind the middle laterally compressed, in the depth of
the impression snloaM all around, behind which sulcus, at the middle

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of the base, ie a large roand groove with a smooth bottom and n distinct
puncture in the centre ; before the groove, the thorax is suddenly ele-
vated, forming the acute end of the median ridge of the thonii ; oo each
side of the groove at the base is a small tubercle. The elytra are trun-
cate at the sutural posterior angles, with tufts of yellow hair at the
middle and outer angle. The abdomen ii widest at the base, wider
than the elytra at the tip, excavated from one side to the other, with
a large smooth tubercle each side at the base on the mai^n. The legs
are io proportion longer than in coecnx, the anterior coxae are cylindri-
cal, prominent, the intermediate globose, the posterior transverse.

The mule differs in the above mentioned striu on the vertex, the
intermediate tibiie being sinuous inside and armed with a very small
Bpurattheend, the intermediate trochanters being armed with a strong
cylindrical spine, and the metastcrnum, which is in the female lancet-
shaped reaching between the hind caste, is in the male much elevated,
truncate and bifurcate before the posterior coise; between the latter are
two punctures and a tuft of hair.

One 9 was found by me some six years ago in Dlinois, and speci-
mens of both sezeswere lately collected in large numbers by Mr.Chas.
Sonne, ii^ Chicago.

The honor of having discovered it to be a new species is due to Dr.
John L. LeConte. The discovery of the male belongs to Mr. Sonne.

2. Bryazii valatina ia identical with Der:arthi-wi formtctli.

3. Xrrut* elavata (Vsr. conjuncta). — Nigra, nitida, elytris piceis, capite tri-
ttiveala, thorace globoso, foveia tribus sulcu areiiato conneiia, anteuniB mam
articuliB tribue ulCimiB Talde elevatis. Long 2,0 m. m.

Separated from B. con/uncta, of which it differs by the antennte of
the male having the 1 — 2 joint subequal cylindrical, the 3 — i small
globose, the 5 — 6 equal, larger, globose, the 9 — 10 much enlarged,
tranaverae, very hairy, forming with the last, ovate, acute joint one ■
thick club.

I consider it to be the northern olimatical form of B. conjuncta.

This species with B. conjuncta, dentata, abdiminalis, and the two
following form one conclave, having the base at the thorax transversely
Bulcate and distinguish themselves as follows:

First abdominal Begmentor the male en tire B. ooi^nnota and elavata.

First abdominal segment behind produced in a lobe...B. dantata.
First abdominal segment behind produced in two acu-
minate lobes B. IlllnoteniU.

, First and second segraent with two lobes B. Tlorldana.

The three first segments with two lobes each Jh. abdomlaalla.

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4. B. lUin^Huia, n. ip. — Kigra, nitida, eljtris nngtiiiieU pancUtie, Ihoraee

lat«ribu8 rotundAtia, foveis tribus nqualibus viz eonjunctia, abdomiuig articulo
primo msjore. Long 1.6 m. m.

The species before me is a male of black color, polished, pubescent;
the elytra are red, puactulate, the dorsal Btrise abbreviated before the
middle. The head is bifoveate ; the ant«Dnae piceoua, the 1 — 2 joint
little larger, suhequal, obconical, the 3d smaller obconical, the 4 — 6
larger, nearly equal, rounded, the 7 — 8 smallest, rounded, the 9th
larger, somewhat transverse, the 10th still larger, obconical, transverse,
the last, the largest, ovate acuiniaate. The thorax is rounded, little
narrower before, equally trifovcatc, the lateral grooves conoectcd by a
very flightly impressed boIcuh around the base. The abdomen hsa the
first dorsal segment larger, behind bilobed, the lobes acute not clavated
over the level of the anterior part, at the ba?e transversely impressed
with two distant abbreviated stria. The second segment has a vario-
loid impression at the base with eight punctures in the disk. The legs
are piceoa»<, the tarsi testaceoua, the intermediate trochanters are armed
with a small acute epine.

The only specimen till now known was found by Dr. Helmuth, of
Chicago, who kindly seat it to me for description.

5. B. floridUM. n. sp.— Fusca nitida, elytrip
angulato, foveia tribus sqnalibus impreaflo, ti
tcDDis articulo quiQto majare. Long 1.6 — 1.7 m. m.

The female differs very little from the female of S. aMominalis, but
it is much smaller. The male is somewhat longer than the female, has
the first and seeood abdominal dorsal segment bilubed behind; the first
segment is transversely impressed at the base, with two distant abbre-
viated striae, and a curved ridge, tending backwards to the rounded
point of the lobes, leaving the intermediate space depressed, in the
common notch between the lobes of the first and second segments is a
yarioloid impression with eight punctures in the disk ; the three last
segments are simple.

It was found by me in the settlements of St. John River, in Florida.

I consider these two species as climatical aberrations of the B. abdo-
fliitw/w, of which I saw only specimens from the Northeast of the U. S,

S. B. ooagaitar, n. ep — Tegtaceus, breviter pubetcens capita trifoveato, thora<!e
trifoveato. foyea intermedia minuta, sljtriB alrin doraalis fere Integra, aDtenniB
loQgiusculia. Long ].0 m. m.

This species most resembles B. pvnclicollie, but it is less stretched,
much smaller in stature, more short and heavy set, like B. rubumnifa,
of a saturated yellowish-brown color, seems not to change to a darker

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hae, aa the aumerous specimeDS before me are all alike. The head
has three grooves, one on the front between the antenoae, and two on
the verten ; the antennas are longer than the head and thorax together,
the joints are oblong-cyliridrieal, the fifth joint is larger than the ad-
joining, the ninth and tenth obconioal, larger, the last ovate. The
thorax is auhangulate, rounded, impunctured, with two lateral and one
very small middle groove. The elytra are impunctured, shorlly pube-
scent, the hairs very regularly disposed, the dorsal strife are nearly
entire. The abdomen is short, the first segment larger, pubescent, with
two very short, approsimate, obsolete atrise near the middle of the base.
It differs from B. punclico/lu by the shorter stature, the impunctured
thorax and the color; from if. rubtcunJa by the color and the extremely
small size. They were found near the seashore of Long Island, N. Y.

7. B. inomats, -a. sp. — Flava, impunctata, capil« thoraceque impreesionibus
nulli9. Long 1.^ m. m.

This insect takes the same place among the Bryaxis as Art?im{us does
among the B.itriaus, and is easily recognized by the entirely smooth
rounded thorax. Found in South Carolina.

ft. Batriaut urittatu* Leo. is identical with B. /eroE— JTesl* Dr. John L. Le-
Coate.)

8. Batriini aenleatnt Lee. is the ? of .S. aHiimxcua AubS — (Teste Dr. John L.
LeCoote,)

10. BatriBna itriata* is a variety of B. globotut — (Teste Dr. John L. LeConle.)

11. Batriins juvenco*, n. ap.— Elongataa, gracilis, caataneua, capite reticulato,
subtriangulare oculie parvis puree prominulis, vertice minus convexo obsolete
Cristato, Bulcis lateral ibus,lhorace trilineato, elytria puDctatis, tibiis inarmatis.
Long l.a m. m.

This is the smallest species known U> me in stature, resembling B.
ferox, but more elongate. The head is plano-convex, the fronte plane,
the lateral margin obsoletely separated by a slightly impressed sulcus,
the vertex not elevated with an obsolete depressed carina. The anten-
nal joints are ineonapicuoualy growing larger from the 3d — Sth joint,
the 9tb and 10th are thicker, nearly transverse, the last ovate acumi-
nate. The thorax is widest before the middle, punctured, obsoletely
trilineate, with two carinas between the lines, bituberculate at the base,
the sides are rounded before the middle and straight, converging to-
wards the base behind. The elytra are convcK, punctured, longitudi-
nally impressed at the base in the place of a dorsal stria. The first
dorsal abdominal segment is larger than the following one, and trans-
versely impressed at the base, in the middle and on each side. The
posterior tibiae are not armed.

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A single apecimen was found by me ia Northern Illinois. It could
be taken for a " riprarius," but the present Bpecies is much more slen-
der, the last joint of the antenDSc is not as long, and the tibiae are not
armed with a spine.

12. Tyahns bythinioidea, n. ep. — Piceus, tomentosus, capita bifoveato, foreia
Buico angulatim conjunctus, UQ tennis articuto primo lonjio cylindrico, ECGimdo
gjoboso inagno, intarmediiB minimia, Bvo 9no tranTersia, ultimo maximo ovato i
palpi9articu1u3tiog1obo30, ultimis securiform igthorace com pa tiulato,8ulco trans-
verse baaali, alytrls punotatia, pcdibua testaoeia. Long I.l m. m.

This remarkable insect furnishes the connecting link between the
Pselaphi and the Bryaxis. The form of the head and body forces it
in the first division; the form of the palpi, antennas, and the tfaoracical
sulcus, are borrowed from the genus " Bythinus." Even the head is
touched by a reaembknee of the Bryaxes by having two small grooves
on the vertex between the eyes, with furrows running forward to the
froitul notch, which divides the antennal tubercles. The antennae
h.ive the first joint very lont;, cylindrical, the second globular, the fol-
lowing six joints are small, globular, all conjointed as long as the first
two, the ninth and tenth are transverse, broad, the last ovate, as long
as the first and as broad as the tenth. The thorax is bell-shaped, with
a basal, arcuate, transverse sulcus. The elytra are punctured, de-
pressed, torn en tose, with entire suttiral strise, and two basal impressions
in the place of the dorsal stride, which are wanting. The abdomen is
short tomentose, margined ; the tarsi have one claw.

A single specimen was found near New York city. It joins, in affi-
nity, respecting the form of the antennae, next to Bj/lkintis carinatM

13. Triminm impanatBtom, a. ap.— Fuacum, Inve, pubeecens, capiCe foveis ob-
longiaduabus, vertice convexo, tborace ovato, foveis lateraiibus minus impreaaig
eljtris convex iaaculua, lateribua arcuatua, latitudine longiore palpia articulo
tertio gioboso, ultimo minora ovato, ad basin truneato. Long 1.3 m. m.

The stature of this insect is <]uite a peculiar one. The elongate
form of the body is marked by a very narrow waist and neck. The
head is longer than broad, with two ample oblong grooves in the place
of the lateral sulcus. The antennee are shorter than the head and tho-
rax conjointed, the first joint is long, obconical, the second very short,
broader than the following, the adjoining six jointa are very small,
transverse, the ninth and tenth are gradually broader, lenticular, trans-
verse, the last is very targe ovate. The maxillary palpi are small, the
third joint larger than the last, which is truncate at the base. The
thorax is oblong conves, the sides equally carved, constricted at the
the base and tip, widest in the middle, with three impressions In the

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angles of the doable arcuate, faransrerse sulcas. The elytra are high-
ahoaldered, convex, the sidea arcuate, with the dorsal strise abbreviated
near the middle. The abdomen is at the baseuHrrower than the elytra
and half as long again.

The specimen described is in possession of Mr. H. Ulke.

14. EnplMtai ulnitoi, n. ip. — Rufo-picens, dense pubeacena, pa nctulatne, ca-
pita late biforeato, occipite emarginBto, thorace puuctDlalDBd basin foreis tribua,
BUlco conjunctis, eljtrig depreseje, etrio dorealibus nullis. Long 1.4 m. m.

The head is nearly as broad as the thorax, bifoveate between the eyes,
the grooves with a very abort obsolete sulcua runniDg forward. The
antennseareas long as the head and thorax conjointed, and of the usual
form of this genus. The last joint of the maxillary palpi is long, ovate,
acuminate. The thorax is longer than broad, rounded, densely punc-
tured, pnbeaceut, with three baaal grooves, connected by an arcuate
sulcus, branching out forward from the lateral grooves. The elytra are
rectangular, longer than wide, half as broad again as the thorax, densely
puDCtnred and pubescent, with veiy little impressed basal grooves in
the place of the faintly indicated dorsal stri», and small punctures be-
tween it and the basal end of the sutural entire strife. The last two
segments of the abdomen are longer than the preceding segments.

It inhabits the Northern Stales.

BT BENJ. D. WALSH.

I find that I had no good and sufficient ground forasserting on page
IQ^ that Baron Osten Sacken maintains the doctrine " that, under do
circumstances, is it allowable to change a single letter in a published
name, unless that name be preoccupied." I ther^ore beg leave to
withdraw that assertion.

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IKDEX.

The names of n

r seat

Facie

Adranes LeContei, Brtndel 2i&

Aellopoa Siayphus- 4!

TanUlus 42, ISO, 178

Titau 41,150

Auibulyi Gftnsscus fl4, 159

strigilia SJ, l&B

Ammalo itnpunctug, Grolt 23fi

Amphion dsbsus , 161, 17S

Amphanjx 05

Anlsiii 66, 101

ctaeDliaa ,ASl

Duponchel 6T, Ifll

Arclonotue lucidus ISU

...S06

knthin

Callimosema, Clemens -141

Bcintillana, Claiieiu...lti

CaUiamms Lycaatus. -48, 15S

CarathiB, Orate 263

gortyaoidea, Grole 2f>3

Cautethia hoc lui form i« IBB

Ceratiaia Daeta Hi

Arh opal us p ictus 204

robiniBB 204

Batrachedra 141

Ba]jcipoiaaDella,(Snuiu 143

Batrisug aouleatus. 2b»

cristalua 268

jurencus, BrtndeL 2S8

■triatuB 259

Bomb^oidn of Cuba. Hot«s on the,

by Aug. R. Grole „.22T

BryaiLs-

abdominaliB 250

cavicornis, Brendel- ™

clarstA. BrtndtL JAO

congener, Bntidel

aonja ncta

denUta 368

floridana, Srcndel 260, 25T

Illinoienaia, BrtndiU 2Sfl, 25T

inornaU, BreadeL 258

minuta, Brendel.

scabra, Bretukl. 29

Bucoulfttrix trifasciella, Clement 147

BythinuB

carinatuB, Brendei....

OeicerU 112

bicornuCa„ 117

bidentata 130

,..123

biungalaU, Crtsson 118

Blakei, Owmi. 121

californiea, Creaaon 128

compacta, Crtaaon,...
eompar, Crtaaon.

Oubeusia, O-BMon.. ..
deotifroDB, Creaan...

...127
...126

Cufourii 131

elegana 131

festiva 123

finitima, Creatan. „ 122

davocoatalia. 123

frODtata. 129

fulvipsB, Cretaon. 120

fmnipeuniB. -113

imitator, Ocuon. 126

iaaolita, Creaaon, 129

Kennioottli, Oreaaim. 128

la T igata —.133

nigresceDB 123

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P

trianeulata

Ouudlacliii

irroraU, Grote.

Kechus

Poreus

Rob i neon ii, Orotc

.51,
.52,
.iO,

.54,

S4
54

55

55

tbalassina

ChJonobaa io Kurth Ainerira. He-
Tision of the hitherto known spe-
cies of ihe genus, by fl. II. Scudder

Hevadensia

as

semidea

CoDotrachelusnenuphnr.

20

2n7

101

Crocotadiaparilis, Orote

283

Banainee. Descriptions of some
Bpeoiee of, by Tryon Reakirt.

217

Btigmoeum, a-enrfrf..

31

32

intermedia 156, 1

oxybaphi..
Diludia, G. A R

collarie

Dolba hylieua

Dory phi- ra Hl-lineaUi.

Dryooami'a bicolor....
Ecpantheria ulbicornl

El]em« hnrrisii

Enyo Comertui

Danum ,

lugiibris

Eresia^ Descriptions of son
spoeies of. by Tryon Reaki

Eresia Biitesii, Reakitt jji

Corauela, Reakirt 22;

Gea\gMe\i.Ilraki

Yorita, Rrnkirt..

Erinnyis Alope

Orote.^ 230

4o, 152

.225

...72,1

,..168

Ello 73, 1( ,

guttalaris 79,168

melancholica, GroU.,,.77, 168
Merian*, Qrote. 75, 168

...168

*Enotrufl 76,168

pallida, Grote. 78, 168

rimosa. nrote. 73, 167

Erithales quaeolda. 240

" Craton 104

canaliculatus 112

cingulatus, Crason 110

futvipes, Omsob...
laticeps, Oressoa....
Buperlus, Creaaon.,

...109

...108

I>eilephila Calverlayi, Qrote 58, 1

jEuhalisidota, Qrote. 2K

I luia, Qroie. 24*

Eupleetus crinitua, Brendel 260

Euproetis argentiflua 24(

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Paoe
Eu prose rpinus. O. dr B 177

Phttkin ISl, 178

Eupaeudosoma, <?rafe 240

niveum, QtoU. 240

EupyrrhoglosEum, Oralt 4!

Euryptychia. Clement..

...-13, 150
140

ua, Clenena...

..Mi

BlandeHa 145

cnroiiicllft 1-15

Deemixlifoliella, Cleneni...Mb

fulgidelU 145

gtrigifinitclU...
su]>erbifroutelii

LozotKDiafuacDlmeBnn.,CVeiiunil3B, I.

purpuraiin, Clement I

Bob oceans „1

veeperana, CUintna... I

Maoroglossa Thetie I

Mocrosila Carolina 1

celeus 1

cingulata 1

.snitiB CBliforniei, EtakiH 2'.

Micro-Lepidoptera. North Araeri-
■Aa, by Brackearidge Clemens, H.

ustella.

...14:

HEemorrbagia, Q. ir B..

gracilis, G. * JJ...141I, 174

ruficaudia 149, 175

Ilalceidota Autipbola

ciuctipes, Groit.

cubcDsis, GntU. 243

Har

.ID?

teasellaris 1

Halonota tautana I

JlemeroplHiies pseudotbyreua. Qroie

4fl, 152, 1J«

Heterocampa cubana, Grait S52

Hjloi

nifer.

...193

Dynt

Hjmenopsyche, Grvte....

raediostriatella, Cteineni....HT
Itbomia So!

Lapara bombycoidea ISfi

Lepiaeeitt, GroU 38

flavofasciata.

Leptoria, Clement 13B

breviornalana, Clement.

LimenitEs. Deacription ofa newepe-

cies of, by Wm. II. Edwards

Limenitis Froaerpina, Sdwards

LoxoUBoia fraclivittana, Clement 136

fervidaoa..

quinqu€

iculat

...183,1

...IIB

fuscotibiella. 146

PlataoellB 146

Bubifaliella 146

Bagiaella 1(S

<EoetiouB Foeyi 24T

(Enoaandft nootuiformia 79

On Fhytophagic Varieties and Pby-
tophagic Bpecies, with remarks on
the Unity of Coloration in Insects,

by Benj. D. Walah, M. A 194

Otus Chcerilus 81, 153

MyroD 81,153

Pholus 81, IS*

1,154

Lyn<

193

83, 1S9

Pareuchietea, Orole. 245

affinia, GroU. 245

cadaveroaa, Orote 24S

Pergeaa thorates 49, 154

Perigonia Lefsbvrii 48, 158

lusca 47, 153

reatituta 153,177

undata 192

Perophora Fackardii, Orote. 251

Philampelua 83

Achemon 158, 184

faaciatua 59, 84

IftbrUBCffi 62,158

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Paok
Phil*npeluBLiDDei,S.^S.15T,lTI),lg2

L}'caoa„ 00, l&T, 183

BtreDuas HO, l&T

viliB. 6», 83, 1M, 170, 181

PhitinthidiQcfNorthAineriea. Mo-
nograph of the, by E.T. CresBOD... 8S

FhilauthuB.- 85

Blbifrona, CrtuoH 101

albopiloeui, Crttton 81

barbaCut 103

bilunatus, CWuon ST

urabroniformis 104

dubiuB, Craaon Bfl

flAvifroiis, Cratm 102

frigidua 87

frontalia, Craton^ 9B

gtoriosus, Ortnton 86

laticinctus, Omtoti^ 81

lepidua, OwwB B!

polituB 9i

pulchellua, Oremim. B3

Serieorii initrutana, (^tmait.,
mutibilana, Clenera....

Bideria? nubilaaa, Cltneni...

Sphingicainpa diatigma. SO;

Si'hingide. Notei on Cuban, by A.
B. G™te 3;

S]ibiDgida. A Synonymical Ceta-
Ingu? or North American, with
Nutes and Descriptions, by Grote
A Robinaon m

...too

Banbornif, Crenon. 80

aimillimus. Ocaion 05

solivagua 103

veotilabria B8

rhrjne inimacuUta, Grott 246

Platysainia, Grofe 228

californica, Grote 220

cecropia 22B

colambia _220

Froaerpinus gaum 161, 177

Paelaphidffi. On aome new apeci^a

of, by Brail Brendel, M. D 28

Paelaphid», New apeciee and cor-
rectioQS in the fkmily, by Emil

Brendel, M. D 255

Paeudosphini Tetrio_ 64, 181

Paychonootua, GroU 240

personalia, Qrote 251

Bobinaonia, Orole. 241

formula, Grole 241

Samia 228

Sericoria 133

eouoinnina, Cftmau 134

fasciatena

fcadana, CVenwiu 134,

gratloaana, dement.

Spiloaoma juasisB ,

Steganoptycha oriapata, CTemen.

flaTOoellana, dement

SligmoDota interatincUna

triatrigaua, Clement...

Syiygia, G. i S

efflicta

Tortrii? furaiferana, Clemen*

incertana, Clement.

luloaana, Clement.

ijum impunctatum, Srenijej 259

Tychiw bythinioidea, Brendel. 25B

Utetheaia bella 234

XanlhoaetiaaJbicomaaa, Ctement....\SJ
Xyleutea piger, Orote. 254

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Mr. M. C. Sommer, of Altono, near Hamburg, Germany, was elected
a Corrttponding Member of the Society,

November 13, 1B65.
Vice FreaideDt Fine in the Chair.

The following Papers were presented for publicslian in the Proceed-
ings:—

" On Phytophagio Varieties and Phytophagic Species, with remarks
on the uDity of coloration in Insects, by Benj. D, Walsh, M. A,"

'' New species and corrections in tlie family Pselaphidse, by Gmil
Brendel, M. D."
* " Descriptions of some new species of Danainse, by Tryon Reakirt."

" Descriptions of some new species of Ereaia, by Tryon Beakirt."

"A revision of the Fossorial Hymenoptera of North America — Family
Crabronidse, by A. S. Packard, Jr., M. D."

" CaU-logue of the described Tenthredioidie and T.'roceridse of North
America, by Edward Norton."

" A list of CoDopidae in the Collection of the Entomological Society
of Philadelphia, by E. T. CressoD."

" Descriptions of new North American Lcpidoptera, by E. T. Crcssou."

On ballot, the following persons were elected Corretponiiing Mem-
bers of the Society ; — C. V. Riley, of Chicago, III. ; Edmand Bayiies
Reed, of London, C. W. ; E. Suffert, of Maianias, Cuba.

Dbcembkr 11, 1865.

Tice-President Pine Id the Chair.

The Annual It«port of the Recording Secretary was read, as follows:

BBPOBT 07 TEE BZCOSDUTQ SEOSBTAXT lOB IBM.

In accordance with an established rule of the Society, the Recording
Secretary presents the following as his Annual Report fur the year
186S, wherein it will be seen that much has been accomplished by the
Society towards the advancement of the science of Entomology. The
members have good cause to be gratiGed at what has been accomplished
during the past year; additions have been made to the different orders
embraced in this department of science, rendering great facilities for
comparison and study. The Library has also been increased, and now
ranks high in the category of works of reference relatiog to Natural

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Science. For theadditJona to tho Cabinet* and Libraryweare mainly
tQdebt«d to Kathmeli Wilson, Esq., Ei'r &c. of the late Br. T. B. Wil-
son, who has generously endeavored to carry out the known wiehea of
his brother.

The publication of the Proceedings have been regularly continued
through the past year, and has now reached its fifth volume. Special
care has been taken in the style and execution of the work, and as a
Society we may well feel proud of the results.

During the year past, there have been presented for publication 33
Papers, as follows; —

5. By E. T. Cruxm, to wit:—
"Catalogue of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the EDtoinolngicBl Society

of Fhiladfilphia, from Colorado Territory."
"Description otsome new apeoies of Miitilla, from California."
" Monograph of the Philsnthidre of Mortb America."
"A liat of Conopidw in the Collection of the Society, with desoriptions of new

" Descriptions of new N. A. Hyraenoptera, in the Collection of the Society."
i. By Aug. R. Orote, to wit;—

" On tlie aynonomy of Parathyris Angelica, Grote."

" DeacripUons of North American Lepidoptera. No. 8."

" Deaeription of a new apeoiea of the genus Citheronia."

" Notes on certain North American Attaoid genera and speciea."
3. By Aug. R. 'iroUand Cohman T. Mobinnon, to wit;—

" Lepidopterologicftl Nolea and Dpscriptions." Two Papers.

"A Synonymioal Catalogueof N. A. Sphingidse, with notes and description a."
3. By Wm. If. Edumrda, to wit:—

"Descriptions of certain apeciea of Diurnal Lepidoptera, found within the
limita of the United States and British North America. No.-4.''

" Notes upon Papilla Asteriaa and Saturnia Promethia hermaphrodites."

"Description of a new apeoies uf Limenitis,"
3. By Tiyon KeakiH, lo wit:—

" Obseryatioas upon some Ameriean Pierinte."

" Descriptions of some new species of Danaince."

" Deacriptiona of some new species of Eresia."

•The following entracts, raade from the Reporta of the Committees in charge
of the various departments, will show the condition of the Cabinet at the pre-

Ooleoptem now in the Collection, 8,2*0 apecies. Increase 2,512 species.

Lepidoptera " " 4,35(1 ■' " 216 "

Hymenoptera " " l,09t " " 214 "

BipUra " " 56.1 " " 132 "

MuToptera " " 160 " " 16 "

Orlhopiera •' " 76 " " » "

Beraiptera \ ,, ,, ..n ,, „ ot u

AptJy, 1 "^ "
Making a total of I&,151 species, being an increase of 3,126 species during the
past year.

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i. Bj Bxrait S. (Mm Sact.v, U> wit:—

" Description of eorae new genera and epeeiesof Korth American Limnoblna."

'■Coiitributiona to (he Natural Uutorj of Cj-nipida of tbc United States and
of their galU. Article 4th."
2, By Jaina H. B. Bland, lo wit :—

" Deicri|)tions ot new North American Cot«optera."

" Compiled descriptions of North American Btaphylindn."
2. By Bmil Brendcl, If. D., to wit :—

"(III gume new epecies of P^elaphida."

"Sew species and corrections in the family PaeUphidn."
1. By Ckarlei A. Blakt, to wit :—

" Description of a, new species of Cuban Lepidoptera."
1. By II. W. Bala, lo wit:—

"^otee upon the Tsriatioii of sexes in Argyniirs Diana."
1. By fleJiry Mimer, to wit; —

" Description of the imago and larvn of a new specie* of Chryaapa."
1. By Sen. C. J. S. Btthaae, to wit:—

" Descriptions of three new species of Xocturnal Lepidoptera."
1. By Samufl H. Hmdder, to vit:—

"Revision of the hitherto known species of the genus Chionoliaa in North

1. By Bi-arkcnridgt Cltsunii, M. D,, to vit : —

" North American Micro-Lapidoptcra."
1. By Benjamin D. Walah, ii. A., to wit ;—

"On Phytophagic Varieties and Phylophagic Species, with remarks on the
Dnitj of Coloration in Inseota."
1. By A. S. Fackard. Jr., M. D., to wit:—

"A resiaii^n of Iho Fossorial Hymeooptera of North America, Family Cra-

1. By Edaard Korlon, to wit : —
" Catalogue of the described Tentkredinidas and Uroceridas of North America."

During the past y«ar, ending November 30, 18G5, there bare been
elected five Besident and sixteen Corresponding members. The So-
ciety DOW Dumbers fitly-five Resident a.nd one hundred Correapondiog
tnembcrs.

The painful duty here devolves upon me to record the death of one
who was dear to ua, and whose loss is deeply felt. Our hite fellow-
member. Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, was removed from our midst by death
in the early part of the year, and it is only now that we begin to realize
the greatness of the loss we have sutttained. He, by whose kindness
and liberality the Society has been enabled to become what It now is,
was suddenly cat down, and we are left to mourn over greatness and
modest worth departed and labors incompleted. He had endeared
himself to us all, and it will be long ere we see his like again. His
was a life worthy of imitation, and although he baa heeo taken from
us, yet his example will not be held up in vain. The Society has been

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led to greater exertions than it would have made bad Dr. Wilson been
permitted to remain with ua, and there is every reason to believe that
ere long this Society will attain that importance in the scientific world
which he, while living, desired so ardently to realise.

During the past few months strenuous efforts have been made, with
a view towards placing the Society upon a solid and permanent basi".
Printed appeals have been circulated far and near, and committees ap-
pointed for the purpose of making known more generally the existence
of Bueb a Society, and of exhibiting id its behalf the interests of those
who are favorubly inclined towards the cause of Bciencc.

The Society furthermore, desiring to be of practical use to the com-
munity, and especially that portion embracing Agriculture, has com-
menced the publication of a rooothty sheet, styled '■ The Practical En-
tomologist," for gratuitous distribution, whereby it is thought much
valuable information may be disseminated and thousands of dollars
saved. The results of tliese efforts can only be determined in the future.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

J. Frank Knight,

Recording Seerelary.

The Annual Beports of the Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, and
Standing Committees, were read.

The following paper was preEented for publication In the Proceed-
ings: —

" Not^ on the Bombyoidse of Cuba, by Aug. R. Grote."

And was referred to ■ Committee.

The Society then proceeded to elect Officers and Standing Commit-
tees for the ensuing year, with the following result : —
OFFICEES.

iVfciHien*— Robert Frwer. I CorreipondiTig Secrelajy—E. T. CreBson.

I Secording Stcrtlary — J. Frank Knight.
W. McAlliiter.

STANDING COMMITTEES.
Oh ColMpUra—3. E. B. Bland, Bamuel Lewia, M. D., Cbarlea Wilt.
0» Lcfiiii^ttTa—Jatatie Ridings, Ch&rltB A. Blalie, Aug. R. Grote.
On Symetutplera—E. T. Cresaon, J. W. MoAlliBter, Daniel Wieet.
On Diptem— Aug, R. Orote, Charles Wilt, E. T. Creseon.

On Xturopttra and OrtAopttra— 3 oho Meichel, JameB Ridings, Wm. S. Pine.
On JlemipUra andApUra — Jamei H. RidiQga, J. Frank S night, Geo. B. Dixon.
On library— Charlei A. Blake, Samuel Lewia, M. D., J. Frank Knight
On Puiiicafwn— E. T. Crosaoa, Aug. R. Grote, J. W. McAllister.
On OallteHTUi Fund—Btmue\ Lewis, M. D., Robert Frazer, Prof. J. Eddib.
On TnKcl Archittctvre — J. Frank Knight, Ju. H. Ridings, Chas. A. Blake.

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MEMOIR

THOMAS BELLERBY WILSON, M. D,

PBEPABKD IN FDBSQANOX OT A lOSOLIITIOH OF

THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

PHILADELPHIA,

THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETT,

At niHB Hall, (IB Bootb THiaraBan St.

1866.

D.qil.zMBlG001^le

FrwMdiBft of. tk« SRTOKOLOOICAL 800IZTT OF PHILADELrglA. «t »
SpMiiBl KmUng, Hftrgli IS, ISSS.

Tbe following Preamble aai Resolutioas were unanimoaal}' adopted;—

Vthereaa, Id th* provideiice of God, ve are called upon to mourn the Ioib nf
one of our most Talued mflmbers, therefore

Ruolvtd, That this Bocietj has heard with unfeigned and deep sorrow the
loss it lias guatained b^ the death of our late fellow member, Dr. Thomas B.
Wilson, ooe of the earliest and most devoted members of this Institution.

Setohed, That as from the verj commencement of this Society, it has had
his firm and unwavering support, by contributing most liberally to its Library
and Cabinet, and by large endowments in money i therefore, the members of
this Society iDdividually feel that they have lost a warm friend, one whose
advice and sympathy were always honestly given for tbe best interests o( the
Society: and that through the whole period of its existence, the Socielv has
felt thebena&clal iufluenc* of his personal worth, and of his soujid and diacri-
minating judgment.

Resolved, That the members of this Booiety deeply sympathise with the rela-
tives and friends of the deoeaaed in the bereavement they have sustained in
the death of our lamented friend.

Seaolved, That a copy of these Besolations, signed by the President of thia
Boeietv, be communicated to the [amity of the deceased, with our heartfelt

On motion, it was also fnrther
Stmlved, That a Committee of throe be appointed to draw up for publicotioa
in the " Proceedings" of this Society, a Uemoir setting forth, in an appropriate
manner, the tabors and endowments of Dr. Thouab B. Wilbon in the Entomo-
logical Society of Fhi l ttdplphi ff ,

Ommiittee— Prof. JACOB ENSIS,
JAS, H. B. BLAND,
J. FRAMK KNIGHT.

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3i,drFnvroiB,.

When a man has made himself a beoefactor of the human family
by devoting hia life and a lar^e fortune to the promotion of science,
gralituJe demands that we perpetuate his memory, and uphold his
esample for the advancement of those sciences for which he lived.
Therefore we form this memoir to commemorate the life and character
of our late associate Thomas Belllrby Wilson. His father was
Edward Wilson, and his mother was Elizabeth Belterby, both born in
England, but they came to America previous to 1800, and were mar-
ried in 1802. .They settled in Philadelphia, where their third child,
Thomas, was born January 17th, 1807.

As every fiict in the life of such a man is invested with a charm and
an enduring interest, his schoolboy days should here be mentioned.
During the yeai% 1818 and 1819 he attended a Friends' School, on
the east side of Fourth street, below Chestnut, taught by Thomas
Dugdale, where, among other things, he studied Latin. In 1820 his
father made the voyage to England, and he took Thomas along and
placed him at a school in Darlington, Durham County, in the north of
England. He remained in this school the most of his time during
two years — a period sufficiently long, at his age, to receive very many
and vivid impressions of the land of his forefathers. These he must
have recalled often during the remaining portion of his life, and they
doubtless aided in attracting him so frequently across the Atlantic.

He returned to America in the spring of 1822, being then in his
Miteenth year. His disposition to engage in practical Hcientific pur-
suits now begins to shape the course of his life. Instead of again en-
tering school on his returning to his native city, he became an appren-
tice to the study and practice of Pharmacy in the establishment of
the late Mr. Frederick Brown in Chestnut street, on the north-east
comer of Fifth street. Although he was the son of a gentleman of
fortune, and had anticipations of an ample pecuniary inheritance, yet
we behold him in this unpretending employment sober, industrious,
persevering and contented. His happiness was complete, for he had

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daily opportunities of gainiai; a knowledge of the wonders of the phy-
sical universe. To a ootemporary observer, or to a narrator of facts in
after times, he might be regarded simply us an apprentice in an apothe-
cary store; but in reality, this was a university education for him.
Here he could learn the forces which dwell everywhere in the organic
world. Every article in the store, every mineral he handled, every
common stone in the street, was seen by him to he filled with wonders,
and to possess a long history throngh which it had passed in the in-
conceivable ages gone by. This was the most decisive period in his
life. Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Minerology and Geoli^j un-
folded to him their treasnres, and allured him with prospects of an
indefinite' career of knowledge. He persevered six years in these pur-
suits not knowing whither they would lead ; but it was enough for
him to know that he was pn^jresaing rapidly in the knowledge of the
great creation around him. At the end of that time it was decided
that he should give np forever alt thoughts of being employed in the
peculiar duties of pharmacy, and that he should enter on a more ex-
tended sphere of contemplation. Geology at that time, 1828, was
awakcDiDg a deep ioterest in America, and be made preparations for his
first geological tour. In the autumn of that year, in company with
two or three young friends, he set out on an excursion for geological
investigations through the coal regions of Pennsylvania. Their mode
of travelling was on horseback, and their route lay up the Delaware
river to the Lehigh; up the Lehigh and through the coal and moun-
tain regions on its head waters; thence across the dividing watershed
to the basin of the Snsqaehanna ; through the Wyoming valley and its
adjacent coal fields; then down the Susquehanna to its junction with
the West Branch at Northumberland and Sniihury; thence eastwardly
again across the dividing watershed to the head branches of the Schuyl-
kill ; then through the Schuylkill coal region ; and finally down that
river to ite mouth at Philadelphia. As geology was then a new sci-
ence in America, this pioneer ezploratiun of these young men was
highly creditable. Henceforward the geological history of our globe
was never to be absent from the mind of Wilson. He saw its deep
significance, and how all the natural sciences, organic and inorganic,
must be made tributary in order to understand the long process by
which our world has become what it is. He was now to decide what
course to adopt with a view of laying still more thoroughly and broadly
the foundation of his future scientific course. Accordingly, in the
autumn of the same year he entered the University of Pennsylvania as

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a medical student, and was fortunate in having the very emineot Dr.
Physic as his private preceptor in the medical profession. Already
the medical department of the Univeraity of PennsylTBaia had at-
tained pre-eminence among the institutioDB of the United States, and
his opportunities for acquiring knowledge were of a very high order.
He graduated in the spring of 1830, but hia thirst for information in
the structure of the great world around him, impelled him to enter on
a still wider course of study. Europe was then far more advanced
than America in the sciences, and he determined to avail himself of
whatever advantages he could enjoy beyond the Atlantic. He accord-
ingly embarked, and arrived in Paris ten days before the Revolution
of July, 1830. He there listened to the lectures of Cuvier and other
Professors who gave the Unireraity of Paris its celebrity. He was a
frequent visitor to the Jardin des Plantes, and besides bis medical
studies he paid much attention lo Botany, Zoology and Geology. The
next summer, after his arrival in Europe, he made a tour on foot to
form a practical acquaintance with the natural history of that part of
the world. He was accompanied by a young friend and fellow-student,
Dr. Caspar Pinnook of the vicinity of Philadelphia, and with their
knapsacks on their bacta and their geological hammers in their hands,
they travelled estensively through France and Switzerland. During
the period of his residence in Europe he also visited England and Ire-
land, and attended a course of medical lectures in Dublin. Afler
remaining two years beyond the Atlantic, he returned again to his
native city, Philadelphia.

We now behold him fairly furnished by a variety of studies for a
life of scicntiflc usefulness. His iipprenticeship in pharmacy had
yielded its fruits of Chemistry. Natural Philosophy, and Minerology.
His attendance on the lectures of the Universities in Philadelphia, Paris,
and Dublin, are now over, and they have given him grand and glorious
views of the Material Universe. His geological tours in America and
Europe have made bim practically acquainted with the structure of
our planet. Henceforth, independently of Schools and Universities, he
pursues his way deeply and more deeply in the mysteries of creation.

He was qualified, and had received his diplomas, for the practice of
medicine, but, except as a matter of benevolence, his medical practice
was neglected foi" scientific investigation. The Asiatic cholera had
raged in Europe while he was there, and he had thoroughly and prac-
tically studied its mode of treatment ; and as that epidemic reached
America in the same season of bis own arrival, his services as a phyai-

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(u&n were peculiarly valuable. But loatead of eatenog on a medi<iat
practice, lacrative to himsalf, he devoted all his time that eummer gra-
trntously to a hospital for the poor. It was situated in the southeast-
ern part of the city and placed under the care of three phyeieians, the
other two being considerably older than himself. Tradition reports
that nearly the entire labor devolved on him. Being the youngest
and most active of the three, having had ample experience in cholera
practice in Europe, and his colleagues having their own private prao-
tice in the city, he was engaged night and day for a large part of the
season in the most arduous duties. In the autumn, when the epidemic
had abated, it was necessary for him to leave the city for the renova-
tion of his own health and strength, and he retired for a few weeke to
Berks county, Pennsylvania, and to Newoastle county, Delaware.

Immediately on his advent in the country the prominent traits of his
character were manifest. He is reported to have been engaged from
morning to night in practical botany and ornitholc^y. He collected,
pressed and dried plants, and arranged them systematioally in his her*
barium, and with his gun he captured birds, or quietly and taborioosly
made anatomical preparations, either of their skulls or sternums or
entire bony skeletons. He had attended Cuvier's lectures on Compa-
rative Anatomy, and now he was forming a collection of specimens for
his own private study, and which aiterwards aided to enrich the Mu-
seum of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

The winter of lS3:i-3 he spent in Philadelphia, and in the spring
he removed to New London township, Chester oounty, Penn., where
be resided with his brother Rathmell eight years. He here purchased
a farm which he ever after continued to hold. Daring this time he
was busily employed as a naturalist in the study of objects around his
own home, or in frequent tours to distant parts of the republic. He
kept always a well supplied medicine .ihest, and prescribed and gave
medicine gratuitously to neighbors who applied at his residence ; but
his general rnle was not to make professional visits. Before leaving
Europe he had purchased a choice medioal library, aud an excellent
set of surgical instruments; but now resolviug to be entirely devoted
to science and not a practicing physician, he gave the former to the
Medical Society, and the latter to Wills Hospital, in Philadelphia.
During his residence in New London tradition reports tbe surprise of
the people in that vicinity when they saw him in his long walks along
the brooks and through the fields, groves, and woods, with his botany
box on his back, his entomological net in his bauds, the handle of his

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geolc^ical hammer exteDding from hts ooat-pocket, aad hU hat covered
all around with beetles, butterflies aod otber insects which he had
pinned thereon. This is the firat intimation we have in his history of
the beginning of that large Entomological Collection of more than
20,00U specimens, which fae recently presented to this Society. The
brother with whom he resided at that time, writes to us tbatiGleolog)'
was then his favorite study. And this science continued to be his
fevorite study during his whole life. In February, 1861, he was met
for the first time at the Hall of this Society, by a friend who expressed
to him bis surprise at fiading him so deeply engaged in Entomology, as
fae had thought that Ornithology engaged nearly all his time. Dr.
Wilson replied, '' 1 am as much interested in one of I'hese sciences as
in the other; but the science above all others in which I am most in-
terested, is Geology." In his walks as a naturalist, therefore, geology
received a large share of his atteution. These walks were often ex-
tended to excursions of several days, sometimes to weeks and even to
months. When these journies were long he went on horseback but
never in a carriage. Instead of having a well-packed travelling trunk
contaiuiog the usual conveniences or luxaries for travelliog, he took
along only one small valise. With this and a good horse he said he
could go aod explore all the sequestered parts of the country which
he could not so well reach with a carriage or with large luggage en--
cumbrauces. The washing of his linen, he had found, could be done
in any inhabited country, and new stout clothing would last in good
condition until his return home ; so that hut a very few pieces were
necesHary besides what he had on. It would be deeply interesting
were we to have a precise record of these scientific tonra, especially
when they were extended to far distant parte of the country. But be
left no accounts of them, and it is impossible for his family to recall
with precision his frequent journeys through a period of thirty-seven
years, reckoning from his &rsl tour. We have already mentioned an
excursion on horseback through Pennsylvania in 1828, and another on
foot through France and Switzerland in 1831. In later years he vis-
ited as a naturalist all the interesting localities of the republic, and of
the neighboring Uritish Provinces. We know of his tours through
'Western Virginia, Kentucky. Tennessee, all the States north of the
Ohio river, and up the MissiNsippi as far as the Falls of St. Anthony.
Occasionally he travelled in the ordinary manner when he took plea-
sure in having bis nieces accompany him to the more celebrated places.
To some of the attractive spots he went more thau once, such as the

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White Mountaioe, Lake George, Lake Ckamplain, Trenton Falla, Nia-
gara Falls, the Natural Bridge in Yirginia, and the Mammoth Cave in
Gentuckj. Id the Canada it is khowu that he travelled as far as the
Si^enay River.

Besides the two voj^es across the Atlantic, already described, he
aflerwaids made three visits to Europe. One was undertaken in the
spring of 1842, in companj with his brother Charles. He then tra-
velled through England, France, Switzerland and Italy, and returned
to America only b short time before the death of his father, which
event occurred in December, 1843. Ho went to England again in
lfi44, accompanied by his brother William, who describes his activity
in visiting various mineral localities and points of geological interest
in that country. He also at that time made large purchases of mineralo-
gioal specimens and of fossil remains. His last voyage across the Atlan-
do was in 1851, when he attended the great international exhibition in
England. He then also visited Belgium, Holland, Germany, and
France, staying a month in Paris with his brother William, who for
several years made his home iu the capital of France.

Previous to these last three voyages to Europe he had changed his
residence in America. In the spring of 1841 he removed with his
brother Bathmell from New London, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, to near
Newark, Delaware. But while he resided both at New London and at
Newark, he kept a house or suite of rooms in Philadelphia, which latter
city he generally visited for a few days every week, and during some
periods, indeed, he spent continuonsly more time in the city than in the
country.

Although Dr. Wilson travelled so frequently and so far, it is very
characteristic of him that we know so little of his travels. Indeed,
the most of his acquaintances never knew that he travelled at all. He
invariably, on all occasions, refrained from speaking of himself, or of
what he had done. Probably no one ever fulfilled more strictly than
himself the rule, " Let not the left hand know what tby right hand
doeth." His favorite motto through life was " Res non Verba." He
made no record of his journeys, and even his own immediate family
can simply state that they were frequent and performed in the most
simple and unostentioua manner. His object wherever he went was
to observe — to obtain larger and deeper views of the great world in
which we live ; and beyond this all else was of minor value. But
while we are able to give no narratives of his voyages and travels, we
can contemplate with the highest admiration the rich fruits which his

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tar-ezteaded observations yielded. These fruits consist in hia strong
and deep coDviotiona of the paramount importance of the Natural Soi-
encsB. In hie favorite Geo\ogj he aair the history of the creation of
our globe, and the history of its endowment with millions of ipeoies
of plants and animals. Around this science he saw all the sciences
clustering, and each one revealing its own peculiar part in the forma-
tion ol our planet. With his enlarged views he loved to look baek
through the inconceivable ages — the millions of years — that are past,
and to contemplate the doings of a wise and benevolent Creator. He
saw that for the moral and intellectual welfare of the human family,
nothing was more important than to be blessed with the grand and
elevated views of the proceedings of the Eternal. Therefore he devoted
all his talents, all his time, and all his pecuniary incoiue to the promo-
tion of Science. And therefore he was unwearied and unsparing in
fonnding Scientific Institutions, in collecting Scientific Libraries, and
objecle of Natural History. In these institutions, in these musenins,
and in these libraries, be had the happiness of beholding many scien-
tific men at work night and day exploring the hidden things of Ck)d,
and every year — indeed every month — announcing new truths to the
world. The number of young men especially who devoted themselves
to scientific labors in the institutions founded by him, is remarkable.
And through them and through others yet to rise up, his infiuenoe
will be felt in coming time beyond any definite period we can fix. As
far OS we can see, speaking deliberately and calmly, his infiuence will .
tell upon the destinies of man forever. Such is the exalted attribute
of great benevolent sacrifices. " Yield ye yourselves living sacrifices
to God" is an ancient precept ; and Thomas Bellerby Wilson, devoting
himself with his whole heart, is a beautiful modern example. Beau-
tiful because of his modesty, his uaostentatioos quietness, and his con-
stant, daily devotion to the work of benevolence, apparently insenuble
that he was so devoted.

The principal institulionB established by Dr. Wilson were the Aca-
demy of Natural Sciences, and the Entomological Society of Phila-
delphia. The former of these was founded in 1812 by a few men of
very moderate means, but with a high appreciation of the value of
scientific truth. But it owes its building, its scientifia library, and its
magnificent collection of objects of Natural History chiefly to two indi-
viduals, William Maoltu-e and Thomas B. Wilson. It is noteworthy
how many points of resemblance there were between these two cha-
racters. Both made geology their fovoiite study; both travelled ez-

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tensively on both sidea of the Atlantic ; both devoted all their time and
large pecuDiary fortunea to the welfore of the hnmaD family ; both
made the advancement of science the chief subject of their conversa-
tion, and the oonstant employment of their thoughts ; and both lived
unmarried livea.

Chiefly under the auspices of Maelure the Academy in 1)^17 com-
menced a publication of its new discoveriefl, called the Journal. It
was in octavo form and its continuation in later years has been called
the Proceedings. A considerable portion of the first volume was printed
in an apartment in his own house, and with types and a printing press
furnished by himself Chiefly through the influence of Dr. Wilson
the Academy commenced, in 1S47. in addition to the Proceedings,
another publication also called the Journal, but in folio size, and in
handsome form. This haj* been regularly sualained.

Muolure, at different periods before his death in 1839, presented to
the Library of the Academy 5,23'i volumes. About a thousand of
these were folios and quartos, many being very rare and costly. " The
value of these aoquisitiona was greatly enhanced by the fact that they
were possessed by no other ioBtitation on this side of the Atlantic."
At that date the entire number of volumes in the library whs less than
7,000. The whole number of donations to the library by Dr. Wilson,
as recorded on the library books, is more than 1'2,0U0, But as some
of these are pamphlets, or rather separate series, deliveries of the same
volume, the number of entire volumes when bound may be about
11,000. The donations to the same library by his brother Rdward
Wilson have been 3,662. The number of volumes in the Library is
about 25,000, showing that it is chiefly the gift of Maelure and the
brothers Wilson. But the number of volumes gives only a feint idea
of the value of the gitl; generally the volumes are rare, richly orna-
mented with plates and very costly.

Maelure in 1837 and 18^8 gave «20,000 for the erection of the pre-
sent building of the Academy, which was completed early in 1840.
He bad previously contributed at a single donation $.i,000 for liqui-
dating a debt on the old building first occupied by the Academy in
182fi, on the south-east corner of Sansom and Twelfth streets. One
of the motives which led him to the erection of a new building was
that the very valuable collection of books presented by him, might be
preserved in a fire-proof edifice. Actuated by a similar motive, the
necessity of space to hold his own vast donations to the Museum and
Library, Dr. Wilson enlai^d the building to more than double its for-

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mer size, and donbtleas he would have made it still larger had the
<rroands been more esteoeiye. The first enlargement was in 1S47,
when the houee was extended 30 feet westward, and the second was in
1853, when the entire structure ao extended was elevated 24 feet. His
eipenditnres in these improvements we do not fullj know; one of his
donations was (10,000 for the payment of a mortgage, another wan
$7,00{l for building the glass cases and which now first becomes known
and only by accident, another was S^,700 on a subscribtion list to
which ninety other gentlemen contribated £8,525, among whom was
his brother W. S. Wilson who gave 8500. Dr. Wilson's gifts for
building the Academy must hare been quite equal to Maclare's,
namely S25,U00, and bow much more we do not know.

While the building and the library are mainly the donations of
Maclure and the brothers Wilson, the fact stands out still more promi-
mentty that the Museum of the Academy is mainly the donation of
Dr. Wilson, considerably assisted by his brother Edward Wilson. This
is illustrated, for instance, by the ornithological department. His col-
lections of birds had long been deposited in the Museum for the use of
the members, but the formal presentation did not take place until
March 20th, 18fi0. This was done through a letter written by himself t*i
the Academy. The remarks on that occasion by Mr. John Cassin, the
eminent ornithologist, show the extent of the collections, and in what
various ways they were made. The remarks were as follows ; " This
donation by Dr. Wilson has been accumulated from various sources, since
1845, with great jm^ment, and with constant and unremitted exertions
on his part and also on the part of his brother, Mr. Edward Wilson,
long resident in Europe. The latter named gentleman has most ably
and sncoessftilly seconded his brother in the greatest enterprises ever
entered upon in America, having for their object the promotion of the
Zoological Sciences, and general Natural History, The results mainly
have been, at this period, the formation of the library of this Academy
and its collections in all departments, but especially in Minerology,
Pahcontology, (!onchology, Crustacea, Ichthyology, and Ornithology.

'■The very extrusive and comprehensive series now presented, with
the comparatively small collection previously owned by the Academy,
comprise one of the most complete Ornithological Museums extant. It
is, in fact, one of tbe four great collection of birds in the world, aad,
so far as can be ascertained from published catalogues, is fairly entitled
to be considered as presenting faoilities for study in this favorite branch
of Natural History, equal to thoae of any other Institution.

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" Mainlj, the collectioD of Dr. Wilson was based on that of General
Maaaena, Duke of'Rivoli, and his sod, M. Victor Masiieiia, Prince
D'Easling, which was regarded as the finest private collection in Eu-
rope. This was acquired by purchase in 1846, and brought to thin
country. Various other valuable and more or less extensive collections
have been added since that period, including Mr. Gould's Australian
birds, which are the types of his great work, " The Birds of Austra-
lia," and embracing all the species then Icdowd, except five ouly. An-
other important collection, mainly Parrots, Humming Birds, and Tana-
gers, was that of 31. Boureier, a diwtingmshed French Ornithologist,
and quite equally so was a collection inaUe in the interior countries of
India, by Capt. Boys, of the East India Company's service. Very
important, too, are the collections from the Lejden Museum, through
the influence of the eminent Naturalists now or lately attached to that
Institution, particularly the celebratpd Temminck, and many others
obtained in Europe through the faithful and judicious exertions of
Mr. Edward Wilson for the interests of this Academy.

" Numerous other smaller additioos have been made, whenever op-
portunity presented in this country, by Dr. Wilson, and also have been
derived from European Naturalists by exchange and purchase, to the
extent of several thousand specimens. Messrs. Yerreaux, the well-
known commercial naturalists and ornithologists of Paris, have been
of exceeding service, and but little less so has been Mr. John G. BeU.
of New York, the principal commercial naturalist in this country, whose
high interest in the prosperity of the Academy and scientific know-
ledge, has never failed to be exerted and always has been of great
value to the extension of the Collection. Mr. John Krider, Mr. Wm.
S. Wood and James Taylor, of this city, have also furnished to Dr.
Wilson many valuable specimens, and all of these gentlemen have in-
variably shown the utmost cheerfulness and liberality in their business
with the Museum of the Academy.

" The collection of Dr. Wilson now presented has been derived from
the following sources, and includes specimens nearly as here enumerated :

Rivoli CollectioD. first purchase 12,00(1 apeciraeuB.

■' " aecond purchaae 2,500 "

Mr. Gould'a Australian Collection 2,000 "

M. Bouroier'8 Collection 1,000 "

Capt Boy'H Collection 1,000 "

Mr. Edward Wilaon-s Collection in Europe, including col Ico-

tious from the Leyden and British Mua«uma 4,600 •'

Dr. Thomas B. Wilson's Collections in Europe 1,000 "

" " " in United States ..._ 1,600 "

Total now presented to the Academy 28,0*" apoeimens.

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" It may be of interest to adA, tfiat the collection preTiously owned by
the Academy comprises about 3,000 specimens, including a very supe-
rior North American series derived from nearly all ornithologist-s in
the United States, who have invariably shown the greatest interest in
the formation of the lar^ collection of thb Academy. The aggregate
number of specimens exkihited and now belonging to the Academy is
therefore about 2!t,U0l> birds." Besides this number, Dr. Wilson at
that time presenl«d 2,000 unmounted skins, and since then the acqui-
sitions from all sources have amounted to about 1,000 mounted speci-
tnens. making the sura of about 82,000 in the Academy's Museum.

This more than royal gift I)r. Wilson pre.^tented in a letter as modest
and unpretending as though it had been a gratuity of about five dollars.
The letter is as follows :

Philadelphia, March 20. 1860.

Drah Doctor — I enclose jou a memorandura by which you will pleftae pre-
soDt to the A<;ademy my entire collection of birds now in the Academy. In
addition to the 25,000 mounted spociinena there are about 3,000 mounted speci-
meoB in the casee, which are the property of the Academy ; the entire number
in the cases being about 2S,000 epecimeas.

The donation does not ioclude the apecimena collected by Mr. Duchaillu in
hia laal exeureion to Africa, ea these will have to be presented Jointly by the
subscribers to the fund. When the difficulty with Mr. Duchaillu is settled,
and the other subscribers are ready to make the donation, you are authorized
to include my name in the liat of donora, without any further notice.

As I have been twice poiaoned with arsenic during the past winter, I have
concluded to give up all branches of Natural History which expose me to its
influence. I shall not again open the eases of birds at the Academy, and shall
be glad if you can find some member to take my place on the Ornithological
committee^ if you can, you are authorized to offer my resiguation from the
committee to the Academy. Yours, respectfully,

THOMAS B. WILBON.

To Da. Leidt, Curator of A. N, S.

P. 8.— Having no farther use for the keys, I enclose tbem; the l»rger one
belonga to the cases of mounted birds, the smaller one (o the duplicate cases in
the lower room and to the oological cases in the Entomological room.

T. B. W.

To convey so great a gift, in a letter so simple and short is sublime.
The style is in keeping with the character of the man, artless, sincere
and open. There is something solemn in his delivery of the keys and
his announcement " I shall never again open the cases at the Acade-
my." He had spent many happy hours in contemplating and arrang-
ing those feathered forms. Tor fourteen years he had been gathering
them from every quarter of the land and of the sea. They formed now
one of the four great collections in the world. He must have long
looked upon them with gratification, and now he bids them adieu.

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He goes to another labor, another field of nsefulneas equally wide, ano-
ther source of happiness equally as elevating. And he was not disap-
pointed. It must ever be to us all a matt«r of thankfulness that he
lived to behold another rich collection of his own making around him
here in the Entomologioal Society.

After the reading of Dr. Wilson's letter accompanying this magnifi-
cent donation an interesting debate occurred. A member arose and
ofieted a resolution that a committee be appointed to draft resolutions
expressive of the views and feelings of the Academy in relation to Dr.
Wilson's great ornithological gift. This wasat ouoe opposed by several
members who represented how exceedingly painful any such resolu-
tions would be to Dr. Wilson. One of them related an occurrence
which took place several years ago when Dr. Wilson had happened to
become acquainted with some similar design which the Academy then
had in contemplation. He went immediately to one of the prominent
members and, with deep emotional earnestness, said he hoped they
would immediately stop any such proceedings, for if they did not he
would be compelled to stop his donations. To have public resolutions
of thanks passed in his favor was too much for his peculiarly modest
and retiring disposition. Of course the proceedings were at once
quashed, and in like manner the resolution on the donation of the
birds was withdrawn.

No attempt can here be made to dascribe fully the other gifts of Dr.
Wilson to the Museum. That would require a large volume. The de-
partment of Conchology numbers more than 13,()U0 species, and more
than five times that number of specimens. It is the largest cabinet of
shells in America, and to this his contributions were on his usual liberal
scale. The erustaceaas form a most striking display, and as we view
them we are disposed to ask how they could be collected from all around
the globe. The radiata, consisting of echinoderms and corals, in all the
strangeness of these low forms of life, present a vast and instructive
field of study. The fishes and the reptiles amaze the beholder by the
multiplicity of their shapes, their adaptations to all imaginable condi-
tions, and the astonishing number of their species. But the depart-
ment enriched by Dr. Wilson preeminently next to Ornithology, is
that of Geology, consisting of rare, beautiful and costly minerals, and
the fossil remains of plants and animals. Every visitor to the .Museum
is astonished by the perfectly preserved specimens of ichtheosauri and
pleseosauri. Millions of years have rolled away since they played in
the ocean, and here we think we see their bones fresh from a recent

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burial. Here Ib a resnrrectioa exhibiting the inhabitant of onr planet
as it ciroulated aronnd the sun millions of years ago, and presented
them every twenty-four hours to the warm rays of his light. We seem
to be translated to another world, but it is only a translation to the
former eras of this world. No wonder that Dr. Wilson aaid, " The sci-
ence above all others in which I am most interested, is geology."
When we are looking at the remains of these denizens of our planet
which enjoyed the blessings of life through the long procession of mill-
ions of years, it is then and then only that we can begin to understand
what is meant by the words Creation and Creator! Nor can we under-
stand these dead hones until we understand the living. It is only by
the study of living beings that we oan study and comprehend the dead.
Therefore to appreciate these fossil remains, and comprehend the monu-
ments which God has erected in different periods of the past for our
iostraotion, we must have a museum of living things. We must com-
pare them all together; we must study the grand and compreheoaiTe
system of organic life; for all living things, whether of the present or
of the past, are connected in intimate relationships. Nothing stands
alone. And living beings which now seem to stand alone, we see to
be connected with the entire family by the discovery of their dead
near relations in the rocks, which form connecting links to complete
the chaio. Not only are we unable to form any just ideas of the words
Creation and Creator without the fossil remains of the past, but we are
equally unable to form an idea of the creation of living beings without
a Museum. It is only when we stand amid Wilson's collection of
birds that we can have an idea of creative power and creative wbdom
and creative goodness in that single department of creation. And so
of the fishes, the reptiles, the constaceaDs, the plants, the minerals and
every other department. Here in this Museum of 50,000 insects, the
rich treasure of the Entomological Society, can we only begin to un-
derstand the doings of the Eternal One in the work of creating these
diminutive creatures. Let no one wonder that Dr. Wilson spent so
much money and so much of his life in the establishment of the Aca-
demy of the Natural Sciences, and in founding this Entomological
Society. The real wonder is that so few men of wealth do the same.
How oan life, or how can wealth have nobler objects '!

Dr. Wilson's labors and pecuniary sacrifices in founding the Entomo-
logical Society of Philadelphia, began with its very beginning. On
February 14th, 1859, Messrs. JameR Ridings, George Newman, and
Ezra T. Creeson, at the house of the latter gentleman, then in Erie

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street, No. 728, proposed amoDg themselves to form nn Entomological
Society, nod to invite to the house on the 22iid of the same month,
snoh of their aoquaintances aa would likely become members. Fifteen
persons attended, namely, Dr. Tbomaa B. Wilson, T. B. Aahtfln, Jas.
Ridings, George Newman, J. W, McAllister, George HJU, John Pear-
sail, Robert Jack, Charles Wilt, Louis Schneider, William Wolter,
Henry Fcldman, Thomas Cos, J. H. B. Bland, and E. T. Cresson.
This may be regarded as the first meeting of the Society, and since
then its meeting have been regular. It has been related by one of
the members then present, that he scarcely observed an individual who
sat rather retired at one side of the room, and nho made only one or
two short observations during the whole evening. Afler the meeting
was over he was surprised to learn that this quiet individual was Dr.
Thomas B. Wilson. This conduct was very characteristic of that re-
markable man. He not merely indulged his unostentatious and retir-
'ing disposition, but doubtless he listened attentively and studied well
the materials which were to compose the new organization. The
Society continued to meet bi-monthly, at the private houses of its
members until July 13th, on which evening the meeting was held at
Druid's Hall, on the south-east corner of Market and Thirteenth streets,
and where the meetings were continued about sis months. The objects
of the meetings were the eshibition of specimens, the improvement of
the members in entomological knowledge by conversation, and also the
formation of private collections. No library and no museum for the
Society were yet resolved on. It was at length determined, chiefly
through the influence of Dr. Wilson, to collect a library of books on
Entomology, and a museum of insects, and Mr. Charles Wilt, one of
the members, very generously offered to the Society, free of charge, a
suitable room for their accommodation, and also for the meetings. This
room was in his own house, No. 1310 South street, and the first meet-
ing was held there January 9th, 1860. This was an important event
for the new Institution, for now it had a permanent seat. Esertions
were made to furnish the room, and to procure cabinets for the books
and insects. The work of collecting entomological specimens now.
began. Each member was emulous to oontribute as largely as possible
to the common stock. Dr. Wilson had not attended the meetings
while the Society contemplated no permanent establishment, but now,
seeing a permanence secured and suitable resolutiuus adopted, be en-
tered at once with all his devotion into the labors of the Society, and
contributed most liberally towards all its objects. Henceforth there

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WHS DO luck or funds, aod all was encaunigemeat and activity. Dr.
Wilson waa one day rallied by a friend that many of his new asaooiates
were engaged in mechanical purauits. " Yes," he replied, " but they
are gentlemanly in temper and deportment, and they can collect a great
many inaecta." Soon it was discovered that they had found new iuaeets
never yet described. Dr. Wilsoa'a plan was, that tbej ahould be suita-
bly described hy one of the memhera, and the paper presented to the
Academy of Xatural Sciences for publication in their Proceedings in the
uaualform. Thia he thought could easily be done, aa the author of the
l>aper was a member of both Societies. By adopting this plan the En-
tomoli^icai Society would be saved the expense in its infancy of estab-
lishing a periodical of its own, and the Academy would have the credit
of introducing the discoveries to the scientific world. But uueipectedly
. a powerful opposition to the paper was made in the Academy. The com-
mitt«e to which it had been referred could not agree to its publication.
Ad exciting debate ensued ; additional members were voted on the com-
mittee who were known to be in favor of publishing the paper, and then
the matter was decided, and all opposition ceased. But contention and
strife were above all things distasteful to the disposition of Dr. Wilson,
and he determined at once never again to take this course with another
paper, but to establish an independent publication on the part of the
Entomological Society for its own new discoveries. These things are
mentioned as determinations hy Dr. Wilson, because, after the removal
to the house of Jlr. Wilt, he was the soul of the new Society, and so he
continued as long as he lived. He was cautious and judicious in bis
resolutions, kind and deferential in consulting with the other members,
aod no one thought of disputing his wishes. This was from no want of
manly independence on their part; but he knew bow to conciliate and
carry along his new associates, and they knew how to confide in his pru-
dence and to appreciate his generosity. As he was doing so much
more for the Society than all the members combined, they felt that his
opinions and hia purposes should have great weight.

As when the Journal of the Academy was begun, the printing of
one-half of the first volume was done in Maclure's house, with a press
and types furnished by himself, the members setting the types, so now
in the Entomological Society a new press with types, paper, and other
necessaries was purchased and placed in the Society's room in Mr.
Wilt's house, where the members were active and zealous iu setting
the types and working the press. It is hardly necessary to say thai
the pecuniary outlay was borne mainly by Dr. Wilson. The new peri-

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•idical, an octavo, was called the Proceedings, and the first number of
the first volume was finished in May, 1861, Dr. Wilson being Chair-
man of the Committee of Publication. Ab a tjpographieul production
the Proceedings from its commencement has been above the standard
of Rimilst periodicals; and of the comparative value of its contents as
■.I contribution to science it becomes us not to speak. The first volume
with 381 pages and 3 plates, was finished in February, 1863; the se-
cond, with 562 pages and 11 plates, in March, 1864; the third, with
TU8 pagea and 6 plates, in December, 1861; and the fourth, with
506 pages and 3 plates, in June, 1865, We here see a remarkable
progression in the time required to complete a volume; the first
re<|uiring 24 months, the second 13 months, the third 9 months, and
the fourth 6 months. Tliia is ejtpiaiued by the fact that these Pro-
ceeding are becoming tlie ralijing point of all the Entomolf^sts of
America. At first it was designed only for the Society's own papers,
composed here in Philadelphia. It soon aroused the attention of ento-
mologists in every part of the United States and the British Provinces;
and as this is the only periodical on the continent devoted exclusively
to Entomology, they sent their papers from every direction, to be
brought out to the world in the same vehicle, and to be associated to-
gether in a common brotherhood. They feel very strongly the pro-
priety of associating their labors, and of having the same medium for
the mutual exchange of their thoughts. This can evidently be done
only in a periodical devoted to Entomology alone, and not in publiea-
tions which embrace indiscriminately a hundred other different sub-
jects. One of the great benefits of these Proceedings, not thought of
in the beginning, is, that it arouses the entomologists of the whole con-
tinent to exertion, by afibrding them proper facilities and indnoements
to make known their discoveries. It is a lever which raises all North
America. But it must be supported by fnnds. Who will atep for-
ward in the room of Dr. Wilson, and carry out his designs ? Now
that the discovery of its importance baa been made, shall it die with
its founder for want of generosity ? We hope not.

In April, 1862, the Society was incorporated by the Legislature of
Pennsylvania. On August 11th, 1862, after a hospitable accommoda-
tion of two years and a half in the room of Mr. Wilt, the Society re-
moved to its present Hall, No. 518 South Thirteenth street. This is
a brick building, two stories high, the lower used for printing and
other offices, and the upper for the Library, the Museum, and the
meetings. It was built for the Society's use by one of its members,

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Hr. Jamee Ridings, and afforded at a moderate rent The same gen-
Ueman made a successful entomological tour to the Rocky Moantamn
IQ the Bainmer of 1864, accompanied by his son Mr. J. H. Uidingx,
vho is also a member. They were encouraged to thie important under-
taking by I>r. Wiison, who agreed to make purchases of all new or
rare species in hia collections. The members generally continaed ac-
tive and animated in making collections nearer home, and Dr. Wilson
was as liberal as usual, not only In devoting all his time to this Society,
but in contributing for the purchase of specimens and for other neces-
sary objects. On another page in one of hia own letters, it will be seen
how he devised a system of entomological excursions, at an expense of
$450 per annum. On one of these tours two of the members vhited
together the Western districts of Vii^inia in 1860, and the same coun-
try, together with neighboring portions of Ohio, was esploi'cd again
the present summer, 1865, by one of their number. As the Proceed-
ings were sold at a low price to accommodate and encourage entomolo-
gists who, like other scientific men are often poor, the expenses far ex-
ceeded the income, and Dr. Wilson contributed altogether about t2,000
for its support. For insect cases and other like accommodations, he
gave about S2,000. He presented a library of choice, rare, and expen-
sive books on Entomolc^, numbering about 1,500 volumes, and this
must have cost at least S6,000. The number of ioBect specimens in the
Museum amounts to over 50,000, and for these also the Society is chieSy
indebted to him. In addition to all these, he paid the salary of an in-
telligent and active entomologist, who for several years devoted all his
time to the Society, amounting to $4,000 more. The work of this gen-
tieman has been the describing of several hundred new species and
genera, the arranging of the Museum, the editing of the Proceedings,
and the correspondence of the Society.

The members were profoundly impressed with their obligations to
him, not only for his donations and the bestowal of his time to this
Society, but for the kindness and agreeableness of all his intercourse
with them personally. To give an expression to these feelings of ad-
miration and gratitude, the more active ones had beautifully engrossed
and richly framed a Preamble and Resolutioas. It was a gem of work-
manship in (he highest style of art, containing on the border appropri-
ate legends. When this work was finished a meeting of the Society
was held, the Preamble and Resolutions were passed, and a committee
was appointed to wait on Dr. Wilson and present the testimonial. Thus
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When the oommittee appeared in hU rooma in Philadelphia, be waa
taken oomplet«lj bj Burprise. Had be kaowa their ioteutioiiB before
band, he would probably have objected effectually to their fulfilment.
But now, OD a euddea, stood before him his grateful and admiring
frieudg ; there was their beautiful tbaok-offeriDg, and be could Dot but
accept it with all the heartiaess and deep emotion of which the nature
of man is sueceptible. It is known that he always cherished this gift
as a sincere and valuable token of friEndsbip. One of the members
idigbtty eng^ed in these transactions, and who had witnessed what
took plaee in the Academy of Natural Sciences on the presentation of
his great ornithological gift, was naturally somewhat apprehensive about
the reception he might afford the committee on this occasion. A few
days after he had an occasion in the evening to visit him at his rooms,
and after conversing awhile, the Doctor took a lamp and asked him to
litep to the side of the room, when, holding up the light by the side of
the testimonial on the wall, he spoke of it, with unalloyed grutificatjon
beaming in bis countenance and giving tone to his voice. This was
not vanity for being praised ; it was thankfulness for being beloved.
He made known the testimonial to the member then before bim, be-
cause he was supposed to he unacquainted with the affiiir, as he seldom
attended the meetings and was not what is called an active member.
A member of the Publication Committee was asked why the Besoln-
tioas had not been printed in the Proceedings. He replied, Dr.
Wilson was chairman of that committee and would not allow it. Taken
from their golden surroundings and printed in plain letters, they lose
much of their impressiveness, still they should be inserted here. They
are as follows :

THANKS OP THE
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA,

Dr. THOMAS B.WILSON.

At a Stated Meeting of the Bntvnologiaal Sntlttj of Fhilade^ia, held

Mouda}' eTeoing, Norember the 9th, Anno Domini One thousand eight hun-
dred and 9Lxty-thn.-e, on motion of Mr. Ctiarlea A. Blake, a Committee wai
appointed, coDBtsting of Mesara. Charles A. Blake, J. Frank Knight and Bobert
Fraier, vbo reported the following Preamble and BeBolutionB, which were
uuanimoualj adoptod :

Vhbbiib, The Entomological Society of Philadelphia i» under laBting obli-
gations to Dr. THOMAS B. WILSON, for his euocessful efforts in advancing
the cause of Science, and by hia kindnesa and liberality enabling aaid Society
to reach its prcient position, therefore

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Sete/ved, In aeknoirledgeliielit of his vsluabls lervieeB. the thaoliB of tbia
Society be reapectfull^ tendered to I>r. THOMAS B. WILSON for his earnest
and iadefatiguble exertious in gecurin^ to the Society its many rsciliiies for
promoting the Science of Entomology, end our high appreciation of him ui na
upright and honorable man, and as a. useful and valuable citiien.

lUiolved, That a, copy of tbe foregoing Frtamble and Resolution be suitably
engrossed, signed by the Olficers, handsomely framed and presented to Dr.
Thomas R Wiuoy.

JAS. H. B. BLAND, Prandenl.
C. P. PARKER, r. Pretideat.

E. T. CRESSON, O/rreipoHdiiifi Secretary.

J. FRANK KNIGHT, Rtcording SecrtUiiy.

Id due time the following letters were receWed : —

Pkiladelphia, Da. 19th, 1863.
GiHtLiiTEH — On Tuesday eTening the 15th inst. I had the pleasure of receiv-
ing from you a very unexpected visit, bringing with you a very beautifully
engrossed and framed copy of certain Resolutions in reference to myself, passed
by " The Entomological Society of Philadelphia," at its Stated Meeting, Nov.
9, 1863.

I beg you will convey to the Soaiety my thanks for the unmerited and unex-
pected honor it has conferred upon me — and accept also for yourselves my
thanks for your kindness and courtesy on the occasion of tbe presentation.
Tours, respectfully,

THOMAS B. WILSON.
To Messrs. Charles A. Blake,
J. Frank Knight,
Robert Frazer,
Oamtnitta of Eat. Soe. if Philadelplua.

PMlaiUlphut, DeeemUr 39, 1883.

DiAn Sir — The trains on the railroad to Delaware are at present in snch »
confused condition, that I am somewhat approhensire sometiiing may occur to
prBTent me from carrying out my intended donation of $5,000 to the Entomo-
logical Society at its next meeting. I cannot transfer the Schuylkill Naviga-
tion Loan before next week, and cannot well have a Ground Bent Deed drawn
out and properly examined by my lawyer in time for the next meeting of tbe
Society ; under these circumstances, I have concluded to make the donation
eerlain while I am in town this week, by handing over to you 10 First Mortgage
Bonds of the Philadelphia and Beading R. B. Co. of tSOO each, which you will
please present in my name to the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, at its
next meeting. I bare cut off the coupons for January, ISBl, so that the first
Interest to be received by the Society will be July 1, 188*. Should the Society
prefer afterwards to exchange these Bonds for the Schuylkill Navigation Loan
or for tbe irredeemable Qround Bent, 1 shall be quite willing to do so. my ob-
ject at present being simply to secure the donation in some form to the Society.
Yours, respectfully,

THOMAS B. WILSON.

To Jis. W. McAlustir, Esq.,
Treasurer of Entomological Soc. of Pbilad.

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l^iia^^4^pkilt, Jaraiary 3, IS05.

Dkar Sir — I propose to present to tbe Entomologioal Society of Fhilodelphia
One Hundred Shares of the Capital Btock of the PenDeylvaDia Railroad Com-
pauy, on condition, that they ahall be held in Trust by the Society as a fubli-
cotion Fund, and that the income derived from the same shall be exclnsiTely
applied to the publication of the authorized periodical Publication of the So-
ciety, which may be issued in octavo farm. Should the Society at any time
think it advisable to change the Investment, all monies received flora the sale
of the same are to be re-ioveated and held in Trust for the same purposes and
on the same oonditions as the original donation.

The season for railroad aocidenta and derangements having already ctan-
nienced, I have transferred this morning, 100 Shares of the FennBylvania R.R.
Htock into the name of the Entomological Society, without waiting for the ac-
tion of the Society, hoping that it will be willing to accept the donation on the
proposed conditions. You will oblige me by laying the above proposition be-
fore the Society, at the January meeting.

Tours, respectfully,

THOMAS B. WILSON.

To Jas. W. McAllister, Esq.,

Treasurer of Entomological Soc. of Philad.

Pkiladelphia, Jantiary 31, 16SS,
Dkab Sir— Since I made the donation to the Entomological Society of Phila-
delphia, of 100 Shares of the Capital Slock of the Pennsylvania Central Bail-
i-oad Company, to be held in Trust as a Publication Fund, I have been in-
formed that in ease the Society should at any time deem it advisable to change
the inveetmant, there are doubts whether the Society would be authorized to
re-invest in any other Securities than those authorized by the Laws of Penn-
aylvania in relation to Trust Funds ; in order, therefore, to remove all doubts
of my intentions, I will say, that I did not intend to limit the Society to any
particular class of Securities in case of re-investment, but intended that when
any change of inveetment was deemed advisable, the Society should be en-
tirely at liberty to re-invest in such Securities as at tho time of re-investment
might be considered most conducive to the interest of the Fund.

Please attach this to my note making the donation, as explanatory of its
meaning. Tours," respectfully,

THOMAS a WILSON.
To Jab. W. MoAliistbb, Esq.,

Treasurer of Entomological Soc. of Philad.
Of course this gift was accepted with the cooditionB impoeed, and ,
altogether the amoDut of hie donationB to the Entomological Society,
Hs nearly aa can be ascertained, was about S26,0UO The entire aniotint
which he has from time to time donated to the Academy of Natural
ScieoceB in the form of booke, spooimeas, and moaey, has been com-
puted by thoae who know best, to be about $200,000. To all these
must be added his entire time and energies during hia whole life.
Other men hare donated larger sums for benevolent objects, but Dr.
Wilson's great merit consieta in this, that he appreciated the para-

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uiount claiiDB of the N&tnral ScieDC«a, especially at a time when they
were much more overloolced than they are now. He waa wise eoongfa
to see that the Soieaeea as applied to the practical Arte, are changing
the face of the world; and as applied to ednoatioa, to morab, to reli-
gion, and to general intellectual enlightenment, they are giving to man-
kind their beat and noblest ideas. Through these sciences the Great
Creator is beoomiog more glorified than ever by a revelation of the
history of hb doings throi^h untold millioDS of years that are g*Hie,
and through unnnmbered millions of miles far away.

In speaking tbas highly of great pecuniaiy gifts, it is imppesible for
UB to undervalue the many men who are generously devoting their lives
to the advancement of the acieoces, sometimes in poverty and in want,
and who have no targe amounts of money to give. A life freely offered
is the noblest of SBcrifices, and certain to do good forever, either with
or without money.

The department of EQtomol<^oaI Science whioh Dr. Wilson inves-
tigated, was (be two-wtnged insecte, the Diptera. Probably he made
this selection because that order is more neglected than the others by
American entomologists. He was Chairman of the Committee on Dip-
tera in the care of the Mnaeum, and bis exertions were truly admi-
rable in collecting, studying, classifying and arranging the frail animals
of this order. Apparently there was not a book on Diptera in any
language which he did not have. After his decease his family pre-
sented seventy-one volumes on this order which he had not already
donated to the library; and the simple reading of the catalogue of this
dipterous literature at the next meeting of die Society was a wonder,
showing the vast amount of labor already bestowed by scientific men
on this inconspicnons department of creation. He bad collected seve-
ral hundred new species and genera of dipterous insects, and he bad
made arrangements with Mr. Eera T. Cresson to describe and introduce
them to the scientific world. Death just then ended bia career. Shall
we lament uid say his work was not completed ? Indeed, had he lived
a hundred years, his work would not have been completed ; he would
even ihen have left many unfinished labors, ibr he had always many
things on hand advancing towards maturity ; and as fast as some were
done, others were undertaken. His collection of newly discovered
Diptera are in the possession of the Society which he himself fonnded
and reared, and Mr. Cresson, tJie associate of his labors for several years,
is still living and perfectly qualified to describe all his discoveries. A
grand question with the Society now is, how can the services of Mr.

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CreiBOD be secured ? He vonld gladly give them gratnitonel;, but thin
be b unable to do. For Bevenl years past they were gecnred by a salary
from Dr. Wilsoo, and most oertiualy others can do what Dr. Wilson
did. Who will step forward and fill hia place 7 Dr. Wilson socceeded
Maolnre in foanding permanent inatitutions, and in making Philadel-
phia the first Boientific city in America ; who wilt succeed Dr. Wilson ?
The Entomological Society needs an income above what it already haa
of t2,500 a year. This ia for two objects, to sustain the periodical
Proceedings and to keep ao indiridoal constantly employed in descnh-
ing new species, editing the periodicals, condncting the correspondence
of the Society, arranging the colleotions, and generally superintending
the Society's afiairs. Therefore it has been resolved to attempt the
collection of $40,000, in addition to Dr. Wilson's donations, as a per-
manent fund for these two objects. It is hoped tbat men of wealth
may be found who will coutribute that sum. Surely all Philadelphia
ean and will do what one man did so many years alone.

The Society has just begun the pnblication of a new monthly periodi-
cal, called The Practical Entomologist. This is to be self-snp-
porting, and therefore not a burden on the Society's funds. Its object
is to procure and to diffuse information in an agreeable popular form
on Insects which are destructive or beneficial to vegetation in die
United States. This cannot be done by the Proceedings, which is
addressed ezelnsively to the scientific men of the whole world. A
Urge amount of knowledge has already been aocumnlat^d on this
subject, and the design now is to bring two classes of men, the seien-
tifio and the practical, in closer communication. The complaint has
often been made that scientific men are not sufficiently practical, and
that practical men are not sufficiently scientific. This complaint the
Society will aid to remove. It is astonishing what lavages various in-
sect tribee commit every year in the United States. In the State of
New York aione it has been said that tbey destroyed 915,000,000 worth
of wheat in a single year ! However this may be, it is certain that
that amount of pecuniary loss in a single year ia not uncommon in the
wheat crop of the whole United States. It is hard to estimate the
annnal damt^^ee to the fruit crops, the peaches, the plums, the apples,
the pears, the cherries. In the South we hear of almost fubnlous
amounts of losses by the hall warm, the army worm, and other insect
destroyers in the cotton. To fiower and vegetable gardens and to shade
trees, the mischiefs from insect enemies are not small. It is believed
that general atteotioa will be secured from the community to our new

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periodical. Already we are assured of a tnoathlj circulation of from
10,000 to 20,000 copies. We doubt not that eDtomol<^ist« in all parts
of the United States will most cheerfully lend their ^atnitous aid. It
is the happiness of this class of meo to contribute their knowledge
for the welfare of humanity. We think we hare devised a plan to
bring out their exerljona in a way the community will gladly wel-
come. The members will do all in their power to extend the useful-
uesa of this Society and to collect, if possible, the moderate permanmit
fnnd already named. We believe we can in no better way do honor
to the memory of Wilson. This Society is his work, and to this he
gave, during the last few years of his life, bis almost exclusive
devotion.

Dr. Wilson never, to any considerable extent, became an anthor.
His only effort in this way, of which we have heard, is a joint paper be-
tween himself and the distinguished ornithologist Mr. John Cassin, Vioe
Freeident of the Academy of \atural Sciences, and who probably en-
joyed more of his intimacy and confidence than any other man, except
his own immediate family. That paper was published in the Proceed*
ings of the Academy of Natural Sciences for May, 1863. The learned
authors there discuss a subject quite worthy of themselves ; the exist-
ence of a department of organic life intermediate between plants and
animals. The subject is beset with difficulties where precise definitions
are to be made, and where clear lines of demarkation are to be drawn
between diSerent objects. Nevertheless the subject exists notwith-
tianding the difficulties ; and these difficulties seem to be of our mak-
ing in our wilful efforts to systematise, in our trying to divide where
there are no natural divisions, and trying to separate things which are
inseparably joined. The opinions and reasonings of these authors seem
perfectly sound, but when they come to make the sejwratJon by name
between the objects which belong to their own intermediate depart-
ment, and those which belong to the departments of plants and ani-
mals, their troubles begin ; for how can they avoid including in their
intermediate department objects which are plainly animals on one hand
and plainly plants on the other? Probably the conclosion of the Sci-
entific World will ultimately be this: that oi^nic life originally b^an
in oui worid in organisms vthich were strictly neither plants nor ani-
mals; that variations occurred, as they now daily occur, no o&pring
being the exact image of a parent ; that at length variations extended
so &r as to become plants on the one hand and animals on the other;
that as improved forms of life crowd the older and more imperftet

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ibnnB oat of existence, m the first and origioBl forms are lo8t, tbeir
gelktinooB bodies leaving do fossil remains, and their aorriving descend-
ants, whiob are now nearest themselves, atill teach ns the inseparable
connection betveen plante and anitnals. Between plants and animals,
in their extremely tow ibrms, no line of distinction has yet been drawn.
So conjoined are the two that some oi^nisma hsTe been supposed by
high authorities to belong to one at one period of their lives, and to the
Other at another. Very many are classed an plants by eome authors
and as animals by others. Great credit is due to the authors of this
Paper for their courage in taking up so formidable a topic, and for
temperate, clear, and learned discussion.

It is natural to inquire why did not Dr. Wilson become an author?
Hia life was devoted to study, why did he not publish his thoughts?
There were several reasons for this. One was his unobtrusive disposi-
tion. He was not fond of exhibiting publicly bis own views and opi-
oions, especially when be thought they might yet be amended. Ano-
ther was tLe fact that his views and opinions were constantly improving
and enlarging by his coDStant and varied studies. There is a wide dif-
ference between a man who devotes himself to a speciality, to the study
of some one chosen sabject, and a man like Dr. Wilson, whose studies
embrace all creation. The latter requires many more year* for com-
pleting his labors and maturing his opinions. In the present day va-
rious questions ore rising which require a universal study for their so-
lution. For instance, the work of creation — has it been done by a
slow process, and by agencies and laws now in operation, or by sudden
efforts and by loIraculouB powers? No narrow stodles on any one sci-
entific topic are here of much worth. Geol(^y, miueroli^, botany,
zoology, ethnography, astronomy, and the forces and laws revealed by
natural philosophy and chemistry, must all contribute their parts to
the solution of this grand question. Dr, Wilson's mind was wonderful
for the extent of its range. This must be evident from what has
already been said about his studies, his travels, and his labors in pro-
viding books and museums in every department of research. An im-
pressive instance was revealed soon after hia death. It was then dis-
oorered that he had just previously been employed in the examination
of the old Inoa language of Pern, and that he had imported an Incn
dictionary and other means for his assistance from Europe. He had
not, however, said a word about all this te any one. But it can easily
be seen what a bearing this study must have on ethnological questions,
such as the origin of races and of man. While bis studies were thus

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esteadiag, and while his vievs were enlarging and hi:' opinions were
approaching more aod more to maturity, it is not strange that he did
not publish. He wa^ not yet ready. And it must be remembered that
he died early, just entering his fifty-ninth year, and probably like most
sanguine persons, he looked forward to many coming years for making;
known bis researches to the world. But it may be that by hie death
and the publication of his truly heroic and glorious example to th«
world, more good will be done than he could have done by his pen.
We speak deliberately when we say, his example is heroic and glori-
ous. Peace has its heroism and its glory as well as war. The entire
devotion of the hearLto high and noble purposes, the firm determina-
tion, the unbending will, the generous forgetfulness of self in enter-
prises for the welfare of man, all may be as true and as productive of
great results in peace as in the field of battle.

His importation of Inca literature is an illustration of a declaration
lately made by an intelligent merchant- whose business is the importa-
tion of books, and who said that Dr. Wilson annually imported more
books than any other man in America. He gave away not only single
volumes but entire libraries. We have already referred to the giving
of his medical library to the Philadelphia Medical Society; we have
spokenof the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of the libra-
ry of the EntomoI(^eal Society, and we must add, a library to the
Historical Society of Philadelphia. Maclure had donated several hun-
dred French volumes, in paper covers, to the Academy of Natural
Sciences. They were exceedingly valuable as historical documents,
being official journals and reports of the French authorities during the
exciting times of the old Revolution. The members of the Academy
being devoted to the Natural Sciences, never expected to use those old
historic records which occupied valuable spaces on their crowded
shelves. It was determined, therefore, to offer them for sale, at the
price of 1500, to the Historical Society, which would find them directly
io the tine of their labors. When this had been done. Dr. Wilson
paid the $500 and presented them to the Historical Society with SI, 000
in addition to have them bound. The Academy has established the
$500 as the Maelure fund, whose annual interest is applied to purchase
for their library appropriate volumes, in the front of which Maclure's
name is to be inscribed. It was perfectly understood both in the En-
tomological Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences that no
member should be retarded in his investigations for want of books. '
He had simply to make known to Dr. Wilson his desires and the books

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were ordered, bowever expenwre. It was the same with specimens
for the Moseams. New species for tbe Entomologioal Society he im-
mediately purchased whenever offered; and he and the ornithologists
of the Academy on his behalf, never neglected the purchase of a new
speoies of bird whenever it could be obtained, apparently regardless
of cost.

His own private library, consisting of a few thousand volumes, is a
wonder for the wide range of its contents. It is at his late residence
in the house of his brother, aboat half a mile from Newark, Delaware.
And as that was his home for bo many years, it will be of interest to
his admirers to know that the house is a spacions, handsome, country
mansion, and surrounded with agreeable lawns and shrubbery. It is
situated on a gentle elevation which rises gradually for some distance,
and the prospect is fair and far to the East, the North, and the South.
Dr. Wilson's rooms were in the north wing, the lower story being par-
lors, the second his library, and the third his sleeping apartments.
The walls of no rooms were ever more completely filled from floor to
ceiling with books, and they are in new and very i^reeable covers.
There is no space left for pictures, except for one of his father in a
lower parlor on the first floor. But it is the subjects of the volumes
which form tbe wonder. There are few scientific works, as he depended
for these on the Society libraries he himself bad formed. Many hooks
which are seen in almost every gentleman's library, are not seen here;
but very many works which are rarely heard of, are here seen. It is
a refreshment to stroll along the glazed caaes and read their titles on
their backs. The volumes on the Christian religion are not numerous,
but old Quaker works have a good share of room; among them being
the autobiography of George Fox. Works on Mahomedanism, Brah-
manism, and Budism and other forms of idolatry, met the eye. Voy-
ages and travels in unfrequented parts of the world are numerous. The
chief classical French authors previous to tbe old revolution are there;
as he had lived long enough in France to know the language well.
Dictionaries and grammat« are seen in many languages, not only the
well-known ancient and modern tongues, but also the Welsh, the Irish,
the Russian, and even the Kaffir of South Africa, and the luca of South
America. Dr. Wilson's friends who knew him best, will have their
ideas enlarged of that remarkable man by viewing the choice of his
library.

The chief characteristic of Dr. Wilson's intellectual exertions, tbe
wide range of bis studies, will be r^jarded as a defect by many per-

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sons. This must happen, because there are two very different claBses
of scientific laborers, who may be denomiaated generalista and special-
ists ; and the latter often fail to Domprehend the former. The specialista
are apt to think there is no pleasure and no profit in Science with-
out knowing things in their individual niinutiie. They devote tbem-
aelvea to some one particular branch of science — their speciality — and
this they investigate very thoroughly during the whole of their lives.
The generalista think that all these special investigations are indispen-
sable, and yet that their own range of studies cannot be too wide or too
general. They are deeply impressed with the idea that everything is
in some way related lo all other things. Nothing exists in an isolated
condition, and nothing can be understood if viewed in itself alone.
They think these general relations between all objects, are their most
interesting and important traits. They love to regard all creation as
a unit — a single piece of mechanism in which every individual object
fills its own place, and moves in harmony with the general movement,
the general plan of creation. This movement and this plan they en-
deavor to comprehend, and this they regard as of more importance
than any speciality. Humboldt in bis Cosmos may he regarded as an
example of a generaliet; but even his Cosmos must be looked upon as
an imperfect and unfinished attempt. Among the ancient Greek geu-
eralists was Aristotle, and among the Romans the elder Pliny. In
modern times Linneus is a noble example. Copernicus and Newton
were noted for their general views and labors. Dr, Wilson's mind was
powerfully disposed to generalization ; a menial faculty which meta-
physicians of the best schools, rank as the very highest of all- From
this enlargement of his views it resulted that he was a pioneer of his
race, marching far in advance of his generation. He was the first man
of wealth in America who understood the importance of having a targe
acientifio library coupled with a large collection of objects of Natural
History, like those of the Academy of Natural Sciences. He was the
first man of wealth in America who understood the importance of found-
ing an Entomological Society with appropriate means of study. These
great institutions were not shaped for show or mere popular gratifica-
tion, however important this may be, but as seats where learned men
might study and make new discoveries, and where young men might
be attracted to enter on scientific lives. These means for the advance-
ment of knowledge, were not for ODe special branch ; his disposition
was too general for that. If Geology was his favorite study, it was
because it includes so maeh. Here be beheld the formation of oar

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globe, vhich is in reality the formation of a star ! Here he beheld a
inomentona history which reaches back through milhoos of years. It
breaks npon the mind like a new revelation I And each, though not
miraculous, it must trnly be regarded. These great scientific dia4X)ve-
ries now rising like the morning sun upon us, are douhtleas a part of
the plan of God. They have not entered the minds of men by chance.
They are given by Him to make known His own benevolent doings,
the long series of His own wise and mighty acU, " Come, behold the
works of the Lord !" cried the old Hebrew bard. We have greater
oause than he to say, " Come, heboid the acts of the Most High," as
we point to the formations of the rocks, hegiuniag far below the Lower
Silurian, and tracing from time to time the growth and progress of
vegetable and animal life, with the growth of the solid globe as an ap-
propriate habitation for millions of advancing species, ending in "man
whoee heaven -erected face the smiles of love adorn" — man recognizing
a benevolent First Cause who has " made all nature beauty to the eye
and music to the ear." The religious element in Geology is one of its
great charms, and this attracted the mind of Wilson.

To the question whether Dr. Wilson was a religions man we must
go for an answer to the old and everlasting touchstone, "By their
fruits ye shall know them." His whole life was a most eminent exam-
ple of goodness. His kindness, gentleness, and constant endeavors to
pleaiie, were always felt. His benevolence was as marked in the inna-
merable small acts of daily life as in those large exertions which will
forever bless the world. He was punutoal in all his engagements, strictly
upright in all his dealings, and never over-reaching in trying to make
a bargain in his own favor. On one occasion, when ho inquired of a
oollector the price of a cabinet of insects which he had determined to
buy, and when told the amount it would cost, he remarked, " Only
that sum, is it possible ?" His spirit and conduct were admirable in
all the social relations of life, in his family, among his friends, and in
the societies with which he labored. His most striking peculiarity was
his modesty and unassuming bearing. So far from looking out for
" the chief seats" and for high ofGcos, he carefully avoided them. He
tried in every way not to he conspicuous. His father was a member of
the Society of Friends, but he himself did not adopt any peculiarities
of dress, and probably was never considered a member of that Society.
His theoretical religious opinions were mainly those of the Friends,
and yet he was one of the chief subscribers in the erection of an Epi»-
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but not oft«n, eBpeciallj in later jeara. His belief was, that God nov
giTes to lOHO all the aids for epiritnal eaUghtcnmeDt that He did in the
times of the prophets and the apostles, and that these are full and suffi-
cient. " If ye being evil know how to give good gifts to your children ,
how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit lo
them that ask Him." There is nothing, he said, in the New Testa-
ment to favor the idea that this Divine illumination should stop in
that generation. But the aid of this Divine Spirit he did not believe
came in sensible feelings and agitating emotions. It is an aid we re-
ceive in the ordinary exercise of our mental powers, we know not when
nor how; and its frnita are to be determined only by their correctness
and acknowledged oxcellcnce on a calm review. It is a solemn belief
for a man to regard himself as standing in the same retatton to God
and to his fellow-man as did Isaiah and Paul, and that he has equal
responsibilities, providing bis talents, his means of usefulness, are equal.
This is a powerfully operating religious sentiment, and Dr. Wilson's faith
was approved and recommended by his worka

It is well known that in memoirs and biographies nothing can por-
tray a man's character so truly and so satisfactorily as his own private
letters. We are therefore happy to avail ourselves of some notes which
he addressed te a member of the Entomolt^ical Society, and they are
the more valuable because they are on common every-day matters. It
will be seen with what ease and facility he attends to the small details
of the Society's affairs, and how be was as careful of minor particular
as of great and momentous concerns. The beginnings and endings of
all the notes except one are omitted, as they are all the same.

Philadelphia, Novanier 1, 1859.

Dear Sir — Nearly a month ago I received your favor ot October 3d, and in-
tended to call upon you, but an accident by which odg of my knees was sprained
a few daye afterwards, placed it out of my power to do so.

On my arrival in the city this afternoon I received your note of Octoher 2«th.
This week I ehall be at my rooms this evening and to-morrow (Wednesday)
evening, when I shall be glad to Bee the Committee of the Entomological Soci-
ety. If not convenient this week, I shall be at my rooms on Wednesday even-
ing uf next week only, as I dine on Tuesday of next week with the Hiatorical
Society at Bethlehem. Tours, reapectfully,

THOMAS B. WILSOS.

In the next note it will be seen with what delicate address he leads
the Entranological Society oat of ite old determination not to form or
support a Museum of Insects. He did not make the proud sensational
announcement that if they acceded to his views, he would give them
some tens of thousands of dollars, and devote to the Sooiety seTeral

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years of his time, both of which deeds he afterwards reallj performed,
bat he began in hisnsnal qniet aod iDsuinatiiig way . He "came down
as the dew."

Ntieari (,l>d.), Jfovaiiber II, ISbV.

I am much obliged for the names of the Coleoptera which 700 hare teat me,
uid will bring up the other nanamed species next week.

I would rather not addresa a note to the membere of the Entomotogieal So-
ciety, as it might here the appearance of wishing to urge my opinions upon the
Society, which I certainly do not wish to do. Under the circumstanoes it it,
perhaps, best for me to waive my usual eoruples about subscriptions, for if you
Btate to the Society that I have subscribed $100 towards the formation of a Ca-
binet, and that I propose also to reserve for the Society's collection any dupli-
cates that I may receive, it will perhaps be more satisfactory evidence that I
am favorable to the formation of a collection than anything else that could be
said. You have my permission to make this statement if you think it beet to
do so.

From the couvenstioD I hod with the Committee laatweek, I am satisfied
that however difficult it may be U protect a collection both from laaecte and
Depredators, the Bociety cannot be independent until it has a collection of its

If you will inform me to whom I shall pay the tlOO, I will pay it over at any

At the following meetiog of the Society a resolution was paseed to
begin the formation of a Museum of InsecU, aad conBequantly the pre-
Hent great and increasing collection dates from that period.

JTemari {Stl.), FOmaiy 16, 18B0.

I did not receive your note of the 11th iust. until I returned home this after-
noon, or I should have replied to it sooner.

Having an aversion to letter- writing, I have kept my Correspondence within
a very limited range, and in that point of view, should have but little employ-
ment for a " Private Secretary ; " but in another point of view, aa you have a
taste for the Haturat Sciences, it is quite possible that an arrangement could be
made which would be mutually agreeable. I shall not have time to call on yon
on my arrival iu the city on Monday, but if convenient to you, I will endeavor
to call upon you on Monday evening next, at 7 o'clock, before you go to the
entomological rooms, in order to compare ideas.

Fhiladelphia, May IS, ISBO.

I have received your favor of the 8th insL, as well as the previous ones, but
have not replied for a reason mentioned, I believe, before, that is, an antipathy
to letter- writing ; I always avoid it if I can.

I regret that there should be any doubt or misapprehension in relation to the
arrangement which I proposed to make wiUi you : — neither of the cases staled
in your noM are what I understood myself as making; what I intaided to pro-
pose was, that you shoiild have a salary of $ per annum, clear of all ex-
penses. Besides this, I proposed lo appropriate {01 txptnsea in making coUectiana.
S200 per annum for excursions neai Philadelphia, and t2SI> per annum for dis-
tant «zcursionB, iniending, however, if less than $200 was required for near excur-

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Bions, to appropriate the balance Ui distant excursions, so that the two together
should not eioeed $150 per annum. It was not my intention to coneider either
of these appropriations for making oollectiona as part of your salary, bat con-
sidered both of them to be under my own control, to be used for either purpose,
according to circumstances. I must not be understood as meaning that yoo
were to keep a. particular account of all the trnaU ittnt of expenditure, but
merely the sum total expended in any excursion, whether near Philadelphia
or distant, which can be easily done by putting a particular amount in your
pocket and seeing what you have left on your return, without troubling your'
self aboat the items.

In regard lo the particular manner of meeting the expenses of near collec-
tions, my view was, to adxance lo you a certain aura — say t60 — to ha osad for
this purpose, and when it was exhausted, that yoa would report the fact, and
receive such additional sum as might be required.

I have endeavored above to eiplain my intenitons at the time I made the ar-
rangement with you, and regret extremely that there ahouM have been any
misunderstanding on the aubjeot ; it, however, yon understand the matter dif-
ferently, it shall remain according to your understanding until the end of the

Mr. Knight has perhaps explained inpart my views in relation to the publi-
cations of the Society, but it is quite impoaaible (o. explain them /u/^ in a letter.
I must therefore defer this subject until I have the pleasure of meeting you.

Id the above extract we betold his liberal plan for collecting the
ijiseotB of oar country, appropriating from his own purse $450 per aa-
uuui, without taking into account his own persoual labors in collecting,
which were not small. In addition to tbte he purchased collectiona
wherever they were found, which could add to the number of species
in the Museum. Among them may be mentioned that of Prof. Felipe
Poey, of the Island of Cuba, amounting in all to about 2500 species :
namely, of Lepidoptera about 600 species; of Hymenoptera about 350;
of Coleoplera 1100, &c., &c. The total number of specimens were about
8000. That celebrated aaturalist has been forty years in making this
collection, and it is supposed to be the best collection of Cuban insects
extant. It contained a vast number of new and undescribed species,
and the doctor immediately took measures to have them described.
)Ir. E. T. CressoD, in his work on the Hymenoptera of Cuba, published
in the Society's " Proceedings," Vol. IV, pp. 1 — 200, has described
:i56 new species of that order. Mr. A. R. Groto, of New York, in bb
work on the Sphingid» of Cuba, also published in the " Proceedings,"
Vol. V, has described 9 new species of that family.

PhilatUlpiia, Junt IT, ISfll,
I have put in the box a few species of Diptera, which are very common at
Newark, and of whi>:h I have plen^ of specimens. Some of the others I think
are tolerably common, bat as they belong to families which I have not yet stu-
died as lo Qenera, and in which Osten Saoken declined even to name the Ge-

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nero, confeBaing hia inabilitf to do so, I RhaJl l>« obliged If 70U trill coDtJDue to
collect any Diptera that fall in jour way until I leave jou a ipecimen, sariDg
you have enough of that specicB. Some of the epecies you left are not at all
cODimoD at Newark, and Bome I have never aeeo before, I think I aball obtaio
from them two or three genera not previously in my collection. As to your
proposal to make a catalogue of the species of Hyjnenoptcra of North America,
as well BB a list of the Genera and where found, 1 think it is one of the deside-
rata of North American Entomologists, and shall be very glad if yon will de-
vote to it any days unsuitable for collecting.

I am glad to hear of the arrangement you have made with Ullie, and hop*
we shall be able to get along in the Coleoptera.

In a previous note you threw out a proposition about going to California and
Oregon next fall, and spending eighteen months or two years in making col-
lections in those regions. In ordinary times I should think it a desirable ex-
pedition, but in the present state of financial affairs I can make no engagements
for tbf future. I know already that my income for the present year will be
considerably reduced. I see no prospect of any improvement in the time ; in
fact, it appears to me that they must continue to grow worse under the war
policy of the present Administration. 1 expect, therefore, that before the end
of the year my income will be still further reduced. Bo far, therefore, from
wishing to make any further engagements for the future, I think it quite pos-
sible that I shall be obliged to terminate my engagement with you at the end
of our year, and as my organ of cavtian (as Phrenologiaia say) leads me to trust
nothing to the future that can be accompliahed in the present, if yon are will,
ing to tahe it, I will now pay you the S due up to that time, with the un-
derstanding that our engagement terminates at that time untesa previously re-
newed. I expect to be in the city again next Monday, after i P. M., when I
■hall be glad to aee you, if convenient.

We need not wonder at these diseoaragingviewsof the futare finan-
cial prospects of oor country at thnt date. Not a man in the land
could then anticipate the astonishing financial strength vhich the re-
public ultimately diH>layed.

Ifeurark (Jki.). Ifovember 8, 1801.

For the preaent 1 wish you to attend to the interests of the Society jfr«(, mine
aftemraTrU. On this point 1 will have a conversation with you when we meet.
I have recently resumed my studies on Claeailication, and have obtained a few
new ideas which may lead to useful results, and therefore prefer to have no
changes made in the names of Genera of Coleoptera for the present. I enclose
in a amatl box 17 specimens of Hemiptera for the Society. None of these spe-
cies, except one, are on my list aa having been presented to the Society. I bad
no box to pnt them in, or I ahould also have left the 11 species of Coleoptera
which you hare marked as not being in the collection of the Society. I will,
however, bring them back from Newark.

My health is about as good as usual, with the exception of a slight hoarse-
ness and thickening of the palate, the remnant of a sore throat. My irregu-
larity in coming to the city for the last two or three weeks was not caused by
ill healtb, but by businesa which required me to be here on particular days.
I hope next week to resume my usual habits.

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Sewnrt (Pe!,), F^bnary 14, 188J.
The BfTairlsat UondsjeTeDing n> completely put eyerythjng else out of my
he&d thftt I forgot to hSTe & talk with jrou about your no(«. lit, we mutt far-
nieh the pl&te for Oeten Sacken'B next paper, and if he sends a plat« for each
number of the Proceedings, the; muat aUo be furnished; no doubt a. considera-
ble number of his Sutras are sent to Europe, and thus bring the Society to the
favorable notice of European BntomologiBta, which is veiy dairaile under pre-
sent circumstances. I quite agree with jou that Hr. ought to have the

13 for the plate which he baa bo well executed, and I think also that it o-^^uld
be taxing him niore than hJB fair proportion to Expect him to execute &11 future
plates at the same rate, eBpeciallj if we should have a. plate for each number ;
hut. coasideriog the interest he takes in the Society, perhaps he would be will-
ing to do (hem at three-fourths the UBUal rate ; auppose you have a talk with
him on the subject. I am quite willing to put in t25 for the publication fund,
or whatever may be neceasary to put %e Froceedinge tlirough in a proper man-
In your note you Bay " The copies <S0O) of our first plate will, or ia eipecte<i
to be, at the room this evening." I hope you have not forgotten to have twen-
ty-five more struck off for Oeten Saeken's extras ; if you have, please have them
struck off before the figures on the stone are rubbed ouL

When you mentioned to me that Mr. Hidings was going to eeud t« England
for pins and I gave you the samples, I forgot to give you the money to buy the
sovereigns. Fleaseask Mr. Hidings the cnat of what he seat out on my account,
and I will payliim next week when 1 go to the city. Thiawas one of the things
that waa kaocked out of my head last Monday evening.

Philadetphia, if ay 21, 1B82.

I have received the proposed Seal for the Society and enclose you half a
dozen impressions which I have taken from it, for the inspection of Members,
BO that they may adopt it at the next meeting with a knowledge of its charac-
ter and appearance. You will see that the artist has shown the spurs on the
tibise and even the haira on the under aide of the upper projection from the
thorax i — the thorax is more depresaed than in ihe photographer the insect
sent to the artiat, but I presume he has dune this, in order to give it the air of
examinining carefully the ground before making a step, so as to make it cor-
respond with the motto, [Featina lente ]

Some of the impresBions which I enclose are not so good as the others, but
they all show that the small press to which the Seal is attached is sufficiently
powerful to make a good impression on paper without the aid of wafers.

In conversation with Mr. , I mentioned that we proposed to place at

the top of our Certificates of Membership a fiill-aiied beetle with its motto,
when he made a suggestion which I think will be better; that ia, not to do so,
hot instead of it, to stamp every Certificate with the Seal ot the Society; he
thought thi» would give the Certificate a mure authentic air than the beetle at
the top; from the enclosed apecimeuB you will see that this can very easily be
done If w« use paper for our' Certificates as thick or even thicker than the spe-
cimens enclosed, and I do not see any special reason why we should go to the
expense of having our Certificates printed on parchment.

I throw out these suggestions for the consideration of yourself and the other
members of the Committee, should the Committee think it advisable to propose

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to tbe Society at its next meetiiig, anj epecial design for a Certificate of Mem-
berehip. If I recollect rightly, in the revision of the By-Laws, which we pro-
posed last week, no mention was made of the Seal of the Society j I suppose an
Article ought to be introduced on this subject.

Neaark, (ZW.), Apnt 9, 1868.

I have received your note of yesterday, and think that any omisaioD to num-
ber our Plates would produce confuaiou in referring to them, but I have seen
somewhere, though I cannot now recollect where, a. plan of introducing a second
title, somewhat similar to the enclosed pattern.

I am glad that you have mentioned the matter of printing the Proceedings,
forlinte.ndedlast week to have a talk with you on that very aulyeot; it ia just
as important that the Correspondence, Exchanges, Ac. should be promptly at-
tended to. as it ia to iaaue our Proceedings punctually ; I do not think that we
ought to limit our numbers to any certain number of pages, but that we ought
to publish all papers that are regularly reported on by the Committoea in their
proper order and time ; if we poatpoue any papers, we shall very soon find the
authors aending their papers to Societies who will publish them more promptly.

I may be wrong, hut my impreasion is that Mr. oomes butonce aweefc

to aseiat in aetting up type and in presawork, and that he doea it at conaider-
able leas than tbe usual rates; the proposition which I intended to make to

you, was something like the following;— That, if Mr. — has the time to

flpare, so that there shall be no delay in the isaue of the numbers, an arrange-
ment shall be made with him io set all tbe type and Rissist in the press- work
at such price aa he may be willing to ^ree to, and I think that if no better
can be done, it would be better to give him full prices, for, as he has been on
the Publication Committee from the beginning, he will naturally take more
pride in preserving its typographical excellence than any other printer wonld.

If Mr, has not the time, then, to make arrangements vjith some one else,

so that you shall be relieved from type-setting, but 1 think that in any case
you should correct the proofs and take a general superviaioo of the printing. In
order to carry out this plan, it will perhaps be noceaaary to purchase more type,
so that type-setting may not be delayed by any delay in the return of proof-
sbeeta from authors. For sll thoao tbinga I am willing to furnish whatever
funds may be necessary; in fact, I do not enpect Vol, 2 to payexpenses, but as
we approaohed the end of Vol. 1, 1 saw that the steadily increasing number of
pages and the coloring of Platea, made it necesaary to change the price of sub-
scription for the 2nd Vol. Our terms for tbe 2nd Vol. make no promises for
the 3rd Vol., and perhaps by the time the 2nd Vol. is completed, the Public will
not object to an increase of price for the 3rd Vol., while at the same time I
hppe we shall be able to preserve the old price for our members. I wish yon
would think over the above and suggest any other plan or ideas that may oc-

On the cover of the last No. of the Berlin Entomological Magazine, which I
left with you, you will see a notice that the price for ifemiers of the Society i«
12 per annum— for the Public tS per annum.

I intended last week also to have a talk with Mr. , about the Insect

Case which he is now making, and the four other cases which will be wanted;
I shall be obliged if you will see him, and let me know next week his ideas on
the following propositions i [I have paid him 150 in advance on the case now
making.)

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I propose now lo pay him $50 more. &ait the balance nh«n the case is An-
ished and at the Hall of the Society. I propose also, (if he thinks it will he
better, to aecure at once the lumber neeeasary for the four other cflfws.) to ad-
vance $50 on each for that purpose, say $200 altogether, and also to advance on
each case an additional $5D, whea it is so far completed as to require cork and
glansj the balance duo on each case when finished, to be paid when it is de-
livered complete to the Society.

We can easily underBtand how individuflla may have been acquaiotiid
with Dr. Wilson, eeeing him act and hearing him speak for years,
without recognizing him as a great man. Even now they may not feel
that a great character has just left us. When greatness comes in its
most simple and unpretending form, it may easily he overlooked. Si>
it was of old with " the man of Nazareth." A member onee retnarked
to us at a meeting of the Academy, as he was Walking across the room,
'■ The doctor is the very personification of modesty." He would not
surely have been great if greatness consisted in making a display, either
in speaking or in acting. It is a beautiful lesson taught us by an an-
cient seer, near three thousand years ago, that he did not reeogiiize
6od in the thunder, nor in the earthquake, nor in the whirlwind, but
in the still email voice. With the great mass of mankind it is just the
reverse, Tbeyhave need to be arrested and made attentive, and taught
how the still small voice may tell more than the thunder. In human
character greatness of the very highest type consists in an enlightened
judgment and a good heart; not in the faculty or the disposition for
making personal demonstrations. The demonstration of a great mind
shows itself by good and great deeds performed silently and with the
least possible ostentation ; good and great deeds whose influence may
last through all time without any alloy of evil. Res non verba, things
not words, as we have already said, was his favorite motto. The supe-
riority of his judgment was seen in not allowing his benevolence to
run in the ordinary beaten tracks, bat in making the Academy of
Natural Sciences what it now is. He was very far in advance of the
general intelligence of the times when, many years ago, he entertained
so high an appreciation of the Natural Sciences. And after the .Aca-
demy had been well furnished and well established, he again showed
his judgment superior to that of members there by founding the En-
tomological Society. The ruling spirits of the Academy could not
see the propriety of having a new society whose object was purely
Natural History, like their own, and apparently interfering with their
work and opposing their interests. He saw clearly what they could
Dot see, that the Academy never had answered, and probably never
would answer, the purposes of entomology. Juat as formerly, there

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was u necesMt; for founding the Academy, although the Philosophical
Society existed in the game city for the Bame objects, so now there waa
ti like necessity for founding the Entomological Society, although
both these old institutions existed with the same objects in view.
He saw that entomology should occupy a higher regard, and receive
a more vigorous treatment, tlian that bestowed by them. He saw
that though the insects are small, yet altogether they are great, " The
locust, the caterpillar, the canker-worm and the palmer-worm are God's
terrible army." He saw that insects are practically as important as
any other class of animals, and he saw, that scientifically considered,
they are the moat important class, because the number of their species
is probably four times greater than that of all the other classes together.
The beginning of the Entomological Society was most unpromising.
Ah a society it did not even aspire to have a library, or a mneeum of
insects, or a permanent hall of its own. Dr. Wilson showed the great-
ness of his mind in appreciating the men, in uniting them together more
closely, in placing before them soul-stirring objects, and finally in call-
ing out the efibrts of the entomologists of the whole country from one
end of the United States to the other. For several years he worked
with them quietly and unobserved, and the society was almost unknown
except among entcmologista. There were wise men and great men lu
the Academy at the time of the formation of the Eutomolt^ical Soci-
ety, but none were greater and wiser than he. When, as in the case
of George Washington, a man's greatness lief in his judgment, in his
wisdom for managing great afiairs, he oan be appreciated only by a
very narrow circle, unless some great emergency call him forth, or
unless the powerful promptings of his own benevolent disposition urge
him to undertake great things. Then his greatness is measured by the
deeds he has done and the way they are done. The way, the manner
of Dr. Wilson, could not have been better. His example will be effec-
tive for a long time to come. In small things, in the countless details
of founding and conducting large societies, his wisdom was as striking
us in extensive dcBigns. A single instance of these minor matters can
alone be mentioned. An influential member of the Academy proposed
10 him to have the floors of the rooms in the lower story covered with
matting, the bare boards appearing rather unseemly. No, he promptly
replied, the gas-burners and the gentleman's cigars and pipes are lighted
with matches, and they or the ignited tobacco, falling on the dry mat-
ting, might easily burn up this building and all its contents.

His general health was good, and he Was capable of a large amount

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uf iDtellectual labor. He wtu indoMrtona during the day, and at night
it wnB hi* habit to be np until one or two o'oIooIe in the morning,
actively engaged in study. His hour for breaifaet was at nine.
About the seventh of March, 1S65, he complained of being feverish,
und for a few days he bore his illness as an inconvenience, but not as
being serious. He reclined in his easy chairs in his stndy, and tried
to amuse himself with his books, now with one and now with another,
but none brought their usual relish. Occasionally he walked out a
little, saying he enjoyed the open air. In his study he took his sparing
meals, which were brought to him contrary to his usual practice. Oa
Sunday morning, the 13th, be had become so much worse that his bro-
ther insisted on his retiring to bed; and as a compromise be consent«d
to have a couch brought in his study. His fever rapidly increased,
EUid in tbe evening of that day he was affected with delirium. This
continued during Monday, but on Tuesday evening he recogniied his
brother and addresued him by name. Later in the same night, appa-
rently at tbe crisis of the disease, he suffered a spasmodic oonvulsion,
partly rising np in his bed and showing signs of strong excitement.
As this passed away it became evident that he was in extreme danger.
His symptoms' were now decidedly those of typhus fever. He rapidly
declined, and on Wednesday, the 15th, he breathed his last, still in his
study snd surrounded by his books. He died in the midst of his labors;
and even now his old accustomed volumes seem to look down from
their shelves to the spot where he loved to sit and study, and where
he lay when he reached his end.

His remains were conveyed to the city residence of his brother Rath-
mell Wilson, Esq., in Philadelphia, where his funeral was attended on
."Saturday the 18th, Besides his relatives the chief mourners wore tbe
^^cienlific gentlemen of that city. Sorrowfully they accompanied him
to the cemetery at South Laurel Hill.

His Will had been made some considerable time past, and be therein
beqneaihed the sum of 810,000 to the Academy of Natural Sciences.
He had expressed bis intentions to alter this bequest in favor of the
Kntomological Society, for tbe reason that he had already done so much
more for the Academy, and that the Academy was so much better pro-
vided for than tbe Society, But be died suddenly, sooner than tbe
anticipations of us all, and no change in his will was made. This ex-
planation in favor of the Entomological Society, seems demanded by
the occasion. In the right view of the case, however, all is well. This
Society bad bis kind intentions; Science has for its advancement the

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important earn left at his death ; and mankind at lai^ has the benefit
of his liberal and large hearted example. Hia example will continue
to be a pover In the world, and do for this institution far more, we
trust, than even his own best personal act«.

A Monument to Dr. WUboq ia already built more durable than gra-
nite or marble. Ae in the solid rocka we behold the impreasiona of
plants and animals which have lived many millions of years ago, and
their forms and their oharaeters still stand out in bold relief, so our
departed friend has imprinted his im^e on the moral and intellectual
world forever. He has done deeds whose records can never be defuced.
He has given en onward movement to the development of scientific
knowledge which must go on without end. Every year it will spreud
wider and wider, aa new truths are discovered by the means which he has
provided, and a& new young minds are attracted to devote theniselvcH
to soientiflo investigations by the libraries and museums which he haa
established. As in the material world force is found to be indistruc-
4»ble, and an impulse once given can never end, so in the moral and
iotelleotoal world, an onward movement for the wel&re of humanity
must go on forever. Such an impulse he has imparted, and as it rolb
on like a mighty wave through all futare generations, it will be hie
living monument admired to the end of time.

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