164 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



The legs are long and the two exterior spurs of the hind tibise 

 very short, the two interior long. 3Iale. Autennte ciliferous. 

 Female. Antennae simple. 



Larva. Head small and elongate-globose, caudal horn rather 

 short, nearly straight and rough. Without oblique bands, but 

 with a row of subdorsal spots on each side. The anterior seg- 

 ments are much attenuated, and are capable of being withdrawn 

 or shortened or much extended; none of the segments dilated. 

 When disturbed, they fall from their food-plants, shorten the ante- 

 rior segments and bend the head toward the terminal extremity. 

 In repose, the anterior rings are merely shortened. The larval 

 transformation takes place in a superficial cell excavated from the 

 surface. 



1. D. lineata Fabr. Sphinx daucus Cramer. Figured in Cram. pi. 125. 



Sm. Abb. pi. 39. 



Palpi white beneath. Head and thorax dark olive with a white 

 line on each side extending to the end of tegulaj, where it is edged 

 above slightly with blackish; two white dorsal lines and one on 

 superior edge of the tegula;. Abdomen greenish-brown, tinged 

 with reddish on the sides : a white dorsal line with a double row 

 of black dorsal spots and lateral alternate white and black spots. 

 Anterior wings deep olivaceous, with a straight buff-colored band 

 from the inner margin of the base to the tip, and its basal and 

 apical portion whitish; the olivaceous portions of the wing are 

 bordered and shaded with black ; a white discal line and all the 

 nervules white except the apical ; a marginal bluish-gray space 

 and fringes dark buff. Posterior wings black, costa brownish, 

 with a rose-colored central band, including a white spot near the 

 inner margin and a marginal reddish line ; fingers white. 



Mature Larva. Head dark green, dotted with yellow dots. 

 Body uniform yellowish-green ; a dorsal patch ou first segment 

 darker and dotted with yellowish-white ; a subdorsal row of ellip- 

 tical spots, connected by an intermediate faint yellow line ; the 

 spots consist of two curved short black lines, inclosing superiorly an 

 orange-yellow dash, and inferiorly the yellow subdorsal line. The 

 stigmatse are reddish-orange, black margined on a yellow base. 



