Batchelder, C: Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Clu

Excerpt from Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club, Vol. 8

The sphingid forms described in the following pages comprise thirteen new species and twelve new subspecies. They are from widely scattered localities. Seven are from South America, five from China, five from Polynesia, two from the Philip pines, and one each from the Caucasus, North America, the West Indies, Africa, Australia and the Fiji Islands.

My collection now has reached a total of eleven hundred and twenty-five Species and subspecies, represented by some seventy two hundred Specimens. As the total number of Species and subspecies of Sphingidae known to science is about thirteen hundred, it is my hope and ambition eventually to gather to gether a complete collection of this remarkable family, con taining every known form. So far as I have been able to learn, such a task never has been accomplished in any large family of living creatures. Yet I have good reason to believe that, though by my own efforts I never could attain this goal, I shall be en abled to do so by the active cooperation of men of science the world over, which has already brought me so far along the road. For this assistance I wish to give my hearty thanks to men too numerous to mention, but whose help I deeply appreciate.

Two corrections I wish to make in my own past work, and one note on the work of another.

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