70S 



A. E. Verrilf — Tlte Bermuda Islands. 



blue and orange like those of the sides ; legs with white spots ; 

 caudal appendage slender, bluish with brown spots. A variety with 

 brown ground-color also occurs. Pupa dark chocolate-brown. 



This species is widely distributed from Maryland to the Gulf of 

 Mexico, West Indies, and South America. Rare in Connecticut. 



J. M. Jones, 1876, records it as common in Bermuda, the larva 

 being known as " Tobacco Musk." Most authors do not give the 

 tobacco as one of its food-plants. It feeds on various other plants. 



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129a 



Figure 129. — Pepper Sphinx ; a, larva ; 6, pupa; % natural size; phot, from 

 colored drawing by A. H. V. Figure 129a. — Larva of Isabella Moth, nat. 

 size; from Webster's International Dictionary. 



Geddes also recorded it in 1894, so that it is doubtless fully natural- 

 ized. He states that the larva feeds on button- weed (Spermacoce 

 tenuior). It has been found at New Haven, Conn., feeding on red- 

 pepper plants, by A. H. Verrill, to whom I am indebted for colored 

 drawings of the larva and pupa (fig. 129). It is possible, however, 

 that Jones (who was not an entomologist) confounded the larva of 

 this species with that of the common Tobacco-worm (Protoparce, or 

 Maerosila, Carolina), though the latter has not been recorded. 



It was taken by me in March, 1901. Fresh specimens were senl 

 in October by Miss Hayward and L. Mowbray. 



Silvery Sphinx. (Sphinx argentata= Chlamograrnma jasminarum 

 Bdv.) This rare species was recorded by Jones, 1876. 



Isabella Moth,; Wooly-bear. (Pyrrharetia Isabella.) Figure 129a. 



A living adult larva of this common, American moth was sent in 

 November by Mr. Mowbray. 



