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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... in accordance with my views respecting the internal arrangement of lepidopterous Families, aud which have resulted partly from a study of the learned " Classification of the Coleoptera of North America," by Dr. John L. Leconte, a work which, while it has been ignorantly styled an " Element'ar-Buch" by a German critic, possesses great originality and lucidity of composition and arrangement, rendering it a very valuable addition to scientific knowledge. The genus Calliomma, closes the Tribe Macrogloirini, while Pseudosphivx, inaugurates the more typical Tribe of the Family--Sphingini. A fourth Tribe--Smerinthini--is not represented in the present Collection, while I reserve an amplification of this arrangement to a different Paper. CHJEBOCAMPA, Duponchel. Chserocampa Nechus. Sphinx Nechus Cramer, II, PI. 178, fig. B. (1779.) "" Fabr., 8p. Ins. II, 152, 56. (1781.) "" Fabr., Mant. II, 98, 61. (1787.) "" Fabr., Ent. Syst. III, 1, 377, 63. (1793.) "" Ginelin, ed. Syst. Nat. 1, 5, 2384, 89. Theretra Nechus Hubner, Verz. 135, 1447. (1816.) Chorocampa Chiron Walk., C. B. M. P. VIII, p. 132. (1856.) ""Clemens, Syn. N. A. Sph. p. 150. (1859.) Not Sphinx Chiron Drury, Exot. I, 56, PI. 26, f. 3. (1770.) Charocampa Nechus, H-S., Corr. Bl. p. 68. (1865.) Green. Anterior wings rather intense and vivid green; nervule in terminal space inconspicuously and minutely covered with dark scales, and bordered faintly with pale yellowish testaceous scattered scales. Base of wing clothed with dark scales, forming a small, blackish, 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. Th...
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