Clje Canatiiim ^iitomol0gbt. 



VOL. XIII. 



LONDON, ONT., MARCH, 1881. 



No. 3 



ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS. 



THE SATELLITE SPHINX— Philampelus saieUitia Linn. 



r.Y THE EDITOR. 



This is one of the most beautiful of our Sphinx moths, a rare as well 

 as lovely creature, and an object highly prized by collectors. It is found 

 throughout the northern United States and occasionally in Canada, but is 

 no where very common. 



The moth (fig. 4), when its wings are expanded, will measure from 

 four to four and a half inches across. Its color is of a light olive mixed 

 with gray and varied with patches of a darker olive green, rich and vel- 

 vety, and some portions with a rosy hue. The moths appear in July, when 

 after pairing, the female deposits her eggs singly on the leaves of the 

 grape-vine or Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), where they 

 shortly hatch into small green larvae of a pinkish hue along the back and 

 with a very long pink horn at the tail. As the caterpillar increases in 

 size the tail becomes shorter, and' after a while curves round as shown at 



