Sphingidae 
latest Revision of the Sphingidce , recognize five species as 
belonging to the genus, three of which occur within the limits 
of the United States, tantalus Linnaeus, fadus Cramer, and the 
species we figure upon our plate. All three have by some 
recent writers been regarded as practically identical. Into the 
somewhat vexed question of their specific relationship it is not 
our purpose to enter in these pages. 
(i) S. titan Cramer, Plate II, Fig. 16, $. (The White- 
banded Day-Sphinx.) 
The white spots of the fore wings are semi-transparent. On 
the under side the wings are whitish at the base and on the 
inner margin of the secondaries. They are crossed about the 
middle by two parallel distinct dark bands, which are quite close 
to each other. 
The moth sometimes strays as far north as Massachusetts. 
It is very common in southern Florida and throughout tropical 
America. 
Genus H^MORRHAGIA Grote 
Moth. —Head small. Tongue as long as the body. Antennae 
clavate, two-thirds the length of the costa, with a minute 
recurved hook at the tip. Thorax smooth, strongly projecting 
before the insertion of the wings. Abdomen more or less 
flattened beneath, and, especially in the males, adorned with a 
broad fan-shaped anal tuft. The primaries have eleven veins. 
Both primaries and secondaries are transparent about the 
middle; the outer margin of the former is evenly rounded, and 
of the latter slightly excavated between veins i b and 2. 
Larva. —Characteristically sphingiform, provided with an 
anal horn. The epidermis in most species of the genus is more 
or less granulated. The caterpillars feed for the most part upon 
Symphoricarpus , Lonicera , Viburnum , Cratcegus, and allied 
plants. 
Pupa. —The pupa, which is brown in color, is enclosed in 
a somewhat dense cocoon, formed on the surface of the ground 
under fallen leaves. 
(1) Haemorrhagia thysbe Fabricius, Plate I, Fig. 5, $. 
(The Humming-bird Clearwing.) 
Syn. pelasgus Cramer; ruficaudis Kirby; etolus Boisduval. 
6a 
