Clje Caniibinn ^ntomobgy. 



VOL. VI. LONDON, ONT., MARCH, 1874. No. 3 



DESCRIPTION AND HABITS OF A SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES 

 OF LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVA OF THE GENUS SPHINX. 



BY THOMAS G. GENTRY, GERMANTOWN, PA. 



Des. — Body cylindrical, tapering gradually anteriorly, 12 -jointed, 

 •exclusive of head. Head sub-elliptical, thickly punctured, moderately 

 pubescent and of a yellowish brown color. Oral appendages largely 

 ■developed. Antennae 3-jointed, cylindrical, acuminate, the basal joint 

 very long and quite thick. A dark purplish curved band passes from the 

 crown of the head to the right antenna. Prothoracic segment surmounted 

 by a transversely elongated, punctated, corneous saddle, concolorous with 

 the head. 



General color dark purple, relieved by two series of dorso-lateral 

 gold-colored dots, ranging from the posterior half of the metathoracic 

 to the seventh abdominal segment (each series containing twenty-seven 

 points). The anterioJ half of the second, to the seventh abdominal 

 segments inclusive, each furnished with a single, much larger, similarly 

 colored one. Above the line of the prolegs, intermediate between this 

 and that of the spiracles, on each side, is a row of irregularly shaped 

 yellow spots. 



True legs moderately elongate, acuminate, 3-jointed and yellowish 

 brown in hue, the tarsal joint being armed with a short, recurved, black 

 claw : the whole slightly invested with short black hairs. The 

 membraneous legs of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th abdominal segments 

 cylindrical, thickish, abruptly truncate at base, and clothed with short 

 reddish brown hairs, and armed on the inferior aspect interiorly with a 

 double row of stiff, ferruginous hairs, for adhering to objects. Anal pro- 



