398 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



GRAPE. LEAVES. 



Length 2.25. The pupa under leaves on the ground, in a slight 



cocoon, giving out the moth the following June, which hovers 



about flowers at twilight, like a humming bird, (as do all the 



other moths of this family,) and may be distinguished by its hind 



wings which are rusty orange yellow without any spots or border 



of a different color. Width 2.00 to 2.75. See Harris's Treatise, 



p. 149. 

 rarara 



119. Satellite Sphinx, Philampelus Sateltitia, Lin. (Lepidoptera. 

 Sphingidae.) 



In August and September a thick smooth worm resting with 

 its head and neck drawn in, making the anterior end blunt and 

 thickest: when young pea green with a tail standing upward and 

 curved forward like that of a dog ; when older with a glassy eye- 

 like spot in place of the tail, and of a velvety olive brown color 

 paler on the back, freckled anteriorly with black dots and along 

 each side five or six large oval bright cream colored spots with 

 the breathing pore resembling a black dot in each spot. Length 

 3.00. Buries itself in the ground, the moth appearing the fol- 

 lowing July, its hind wings with an olive green border having a 

 large blackish cloud on its anterior edge, forward of which these 

 wings are pale greenish gray with a large black spot on the 

 middle of their inner margin. Width 4.00 to 4.75. See Silli- 

 man's Journal, vol. xxxvi, p. 299. 



120. AcHEMON Sphinx, Philampelas j^chemon^ Drury. 



A worm like the preceding, but with the edges of the cream 

 white spots scalloped, producing a moth having the hind wings 

 pink red with a dusky border in which is a row of small black 

 spots becoming faint cowards the outer margin. Width 3.00 to 

 4.00 See Harris's Treatise, p. 248. 



121. American Forester, Procris Americana Boisd. (Lepidoptera. 

 Anthroceridse.) 



In August, standing in a row side by side on the under surface 

 of the leaf, eating its edge and leaving only the coarse veins; 

 little yellow worms about 0.60 long and slightly hairy with a 

 transverse row of black spots on each ring; forming thin tough 

 oblong oval cocoons, in crevices; the moth appearing the follow- 



