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spot at the apex and transverse band commencing at the third 

 nervure from the apex, and terminating at the anal angle, pale 

 ashy. The ash-colored portion at the base of the -vving has a 

 faint fuscous band near its middle. Posterior wino;s ash-colored, 

 a bright rosy spot near the base, a large pale rosy space towards 

 the outer margin, and near the anal angle a blue marginal spot 

 edged above with black-blue. Thorax and abdomen gray. 



Sphinx cingidata; I have one bad specimen taken at Wil- 

 mington, Del. Sijhinx Carolina ; many from Wilmington and 

 New York. Here you have omitted a species figured by 

 Donovan as Spliinx caroliyia^ and described by Haworth as S. 

 quinquemaculatus. It differs materially in the markings of the 

 abdomen and thorax, and also in the underwings ; I have ex- 

 amined some scores of specimens, and am sure that they are 

 distinct species. The larva (Abbot's drawings) is pale green, 

 the four anterior seo-ments with many white dots, the head with 

 two black lines, a black spot on the back of the first thoracic 

 segment, a longitudinal white line edo-ed below with black, ex- 

 tending; from the beijinnino; of the second thoracic seo-ment to 

 the tail. There are eight white lateral stripes edged with black 

 above, the seventh of which reaches the black caudal horn. 

 There is another white line just at the base of the anal prolegs. 

 True legs black, prolegs black at the base and apex, green in 

 the middle. 



Close to this Is a large and beautiful species which I have not 

 got, but know as a Jamaica species, Chionanthia, I think. It is 

 in Abbot's drawings. It is not in Smith's Abbot. S. drupifera- 

 rum I do not know. ^S*. Kahniai ; two specimens, Trenton Falls. 

 S. gordius ; bad specimen, New York. S. cinerea ; two speci- 

 mens, Trenton Falls. 



And here are two species which puzzle me, S. sordida and 

 Hylceus. S. sordida I do not know. Hyla^us perhaps I have ; 

 it is dark fuscous on the anterior Avings, irrorated with ferrugi- 

 nous, especially towards the middle of the interior margin. 

 There is a small white spot at the base, then not far from the 



