Clje Canadian Entomologist. 



VOL. X. 



LONDON, ONT., JUNE, 1878. 



No. 6 



THE ACHEMON SPHINX— Philampeliis achemon Drury. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



The Achemon Sphinx is not common in Ontario ; occasionally, but 

 rarely, we have found the larva both on the Grape-vine and Virginia 

 Creeper ( Ampetopsis quinquefolia), and once or twice captured the perfect 

 insect. 



Fig. 4 - 



The moth (fig. 4) is a handsome one, and having the usual strong 

 and rapid flight of the Sphinges, is not easily captured. It may be met 

 with on the wing late in June, about dusk, hovering like a humming-bird 

 over flowers and sipping their sweets through its long proboscis. Its color 

 is brownish-gray, variegated with light brown, and with the dark spots 



