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stripe of the same hue, thus forming a series of angular bands on 

 the sides. The stigmatse are all black, except the first and last, 

 which are orange-yellow. The feet and caudal horn black. Body 

 dotted with numerous yellowish-greeu dots, and marked with short 

 black lines above the lateral bands. 



Pupation. The larval transformation is subterranean. The 

 pupa dark reddish-brown, with a cylindrical, long and much-arched, 

 detached tongue-case. 



Food-plants. The tomato and potato plants. 



Throughout the United States. 



Clemens. 



10. M. brontes ? Sphinx hrontes Druiy, II, 52, pi. 29, f, 3.i Walker. 



"The insect here described differs much from Drury's figure, and 

 may be a distinct species," 



Cinereous. Antennas white. Thorax margined with black, with 

 white on the sides. Abdomen with a median black line, and two 

 angulated black streaks on the sides. Anterior wings with a white 

 discal spot, with transverse angulated interior brown and exterior 

 black lines, with an exterior undefined white band and streak be- 

 hind, sometimes obsolete, and with exterior black streaks. Hind 

 wings brownish, with three blackish streaks. 



United States. 



Clemens. 



11. M. forestall Cramer, IV, 216, pi. 394. 



Tongue one-third longer than the body. 



Head and tips of palpi brownish gray, the latter beneath gray 



* Brontes Drnry. "The antennre are white Inwardly, hnt brown out- 

 wardly. The eyes large and black. The head and neck dark brown. 

 Thorax and abdomen gray ; on the hind part of the former are two small 

 black spots, and on each ring two small black streaks. Anterior wings 

 gray, with a white discal spot and a small white cloud next the tips ; 

 having several curved and indented black lines crossing them from the 

 anterior to the posterior edges, some being faint and others very distinct. 

 The fringes are brown, spotted with white. The inferior wingS; are of a 

 very dark brown, but along the abdominal edges and corners are gray. 

 Fringe like that of the superior wings. Beneath, breast white ; abdomen 

 white with four central reddish spots ; anterior wings uniform, dark 

 grayish-brown, with a narrow white streak at the tips. Inferior wings 

 crossed by two faint lines and also of a dark grayish-brown." 



From New York. 



