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lateral oblique white bands, edged above with bluish and short 

 transverse black lines. Stigmatce black, with a yellow point above 

 and below, except the first and last, which are orange-yellow with 

 a black central point, and all edged with blue. Shield and termi- 

 nal prolegs edged below with yellow; caudal horn rust-colored 

 terminally. Feet white, ringed with black. 



Pupation. The larval transformation takes place in a subter- 

 ranean cell. The pupa is dark reddish-brown, with a detached, 

 cylindrical, rather thick tongue-case, not as much arched nor as 

 long as that of b-maculata. 



Food-plants. The tobacco and tomato plants. 



South America; Mexico ; West Indies ; and generally through- 

 out the United States. 



Clemens. 



9. M. quinquemaculata Stepli. PhUgetlwntius celeus Hiibner. Sphhix 

 Carolina Donovan, XI, pi. 361. 



Head, palpi, and thorax ash-gray; prothorax with three ob- 

 liquely transverse black lines; tegnlfB with a superior and short* 

 central black line ; the lateral metathoracic tufts bluish in the mid- 

 dle, followed by a large black patch on each side. Abdomen gray, 

 with a slender black dorsal line, with four or five orange-yellow spots 

 on the sides separated by black bands, having white spots above and 

 beneath. Anterior wings gray, varied with brownish in the middle 

 and toward the tip, with oblique black lines on the inner margin 

 beneath median nervure, and three of the same hue arising about 

 the middle of inner margin and curving toward the inner angle 

 within the submedian, and thence continued across the nervules 

 toward the costa ; a sub-terminal black and marginal white line, 

 both limited anteriorly by the disco-central ncrvule ; a short apical 

 black line, one in post-apical interspace hooked below, a slender 

 recurrent one in disco-central interspace, a double one in raedio- 

 superior and blackish shades in the central and posterior. Poste- 

 rior wings whitish, witli a Ijlack spot at base, a black demi-line, 

 two central, separated, serrated black lines, and a broad brownish- 

 gray marginal band, bordered broadly above with black. Under 

 surface of the thorax and abdomen red-ash color. 



Mature Larva. Head green, with a black stripe on each side. 

 Body very dark green, with a black patch on first segment, and 

 lateral oblique greenish-yellow bands, each meeting a stigmatal 



