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width 1.2iHiii. Body cylindrictil, seginents S-aiumlate, uniform; anal 

 feet large, the foot plates pointed behind. Horn long, liiteous, red- 

 dish at base and tip, pilose and with large apical set® (tubercles i). 

 Body densel}" pale granular, without lines, light green. Spiracles 

 concolorous. 



Stage IV. — Head as before; width 1.7 mm. Horn green, reddish 

 at ti ) and with a brown streak alcove at base, with sparse, short, 1)lack 

 haiis. Apical seta? still distinguishable. Body light green, pale 

 grpnular, minutel}" pilose. Spiracle of joint 5 black, the rest pale 

 brown. Feet green; no lines, no shields. Horn -i imn. long. Seg- 

 ments uniform, all of equal thickness; subventral fold rather distinct; 

 8 annulate. 



Stage V. — Described by me some years ago in another place. ^ 

 Food i>l ant.- — The larvs - were occasionally met with on the Cliio- 

 cocca racemoaa at Palm I tch, Florida. 



AMPHONYX ANTiEUS Drury. 



A newly hatched larva of this fine Sphinx occurred to me at Palm 

 Beach, Florida, in February, on the custard apple {Anoiia laurifolia). 

 It was bred in Washington, D. C, the food plant being supplied to 

 me by Mr. F. Kinzel. The moth emerged in July. 



Fgg. — Elliptical, slightly flattened above and below, rounded, nor- 

 mal; shell white, thin, « iseh" granular shagreened; probably green 

 before hatching; sizi ' .-; y 2 b}- 1.8 mm. 



Stage I. — Head ro id', free from joint 2, slight!}' bilobed; cl3'peus 

 small, weakly shield sha^ied; yellowish green, ocelli black, la])rum 

 white; width 1 mm. Br .y cylindrical, equal, incisures not depressed, 

 joint 12 a little enlarged', with a long (3.7 mm.), stout, nutant horn, 

 straight, directed obliquely backward; anal plate large, triangular, 

 with a stout, erect horn (0.5 mm.) each side of the middle, between 

 which the horn of joint 12 fits when depressed. Segments very finely 

 annulate, horn subsegmented, shortly furcate, pilose, but minutely so. 

 Pale green, the folded incisures more yellowish; horn black, reddish 

 about the base. Setas slender, rather long, with minutely enlarged 

 tips, pale and obscure, normal, i dorsad to ii, v above iv and anterior, 

 a seta on the leg base. Tubercles imperceptible. 



Stage II. — Head flat before, highly conical, the lobes produced into 

 short cones which are closely approximate and contiguous, pointing 

 obliquely forward; clypeus small. Pale green, shagreened, not gran- 

 ular, a faint brown line on the face of the lobe, more distinct as it 

 reaches the vertical cone; mouth whitish, ocelli partly black; a dark 

 shade on the median suture behind the vertex where the head rises 

 above joint 2; width 1.6 mm. Body cylindrical, 8-annulate, minutel}^ 

 pilose, granular; horn long (5.5 mm.) and thick, with furcate tip, 



iPsyclic, VII, p. ;W5. 



