FAMILT SPHINGIDiE. 21? 



Sphinx ? ( Plate xlv, fig. 9.) 



Forewings subfulcatc, and sinuate ui>on tlu-aual margin. Color of lj<xly and wings buflof 

 various shades. Antenna* strongly and doubly pectinated. Forewings banded ; inner 

 margin marked with a quadrate i^rown sjiot. Beneath banded : middle of the hind- 

 wing marlced transversely with a light ferruginous band. 

 This species I obtained at Williamstown (Massachusetts). It is closely allied to the 

 PMtampelus in the form of the forewing : the abdomen, however, is terminated by a short 

 brush as represented in the ligure. I have been unable to refer it to a described species. 



Sphinx cinerexa. 

 Wings greatly elongated and narrow. Color gray, and the forewings das^hcd with black 

 lines : there is a black spot at tlie Ijase. Hind wings gra} , and banded with Ijlack ; the 

 bands are broad, transverse, and towards the outer margin. Margin of the abdomtn 

 marked with alternate bamls of black and white : abdomen more pointed than in the 

 5-maculaius. Back gray, without spots, but marked with a longitudinal line along the 

 middle. 



Sphinx quinquemaculatvs. 

 Forewings gray : area of the disc darker than the margin. Ilindwings gray, and marked 

 with four black zigzag lines, the outer broadest ; the next is a zigzag line : the basal 

 is scarcely more than a spot. Abdomen broad at the base, upon w hicli there are black 

 and white bands : margins ornamented with four or five yellow spots, alternating 

 with black bands and square spots. Expanse of wing, 3 - 3i inches. 

 The pupa-case is brown, and furnished with a long curved handle which encloses the 

 tongue. This is the common pctato-7nc(h, the larva < f which descends into the earth to 

 translbrm, where it forms a rounded smooth chamber with its sides. The larva is green, 

 and markeil with oblique whitish stripes upon the body : it is also fm-nished witli a horn 

 placed posteriorly. 



PlIILAMPELlS SATKLLITIA. ( Plate Xlv, fig. 5.) 



Color ab<3ve light, and marked with spots of dark olive. Head light olive, with two spots 

 of light olive on the front of the thorax ; below w hich is a large angular spot of dark 

 olive, which extends to the base of the forewing, and forms an abbreviated land. 

 Back of the thorax there is a transverse band, which connects itself with a dark hairy 

 olive spot upon the base of the hindwings. The basal half of the mai^in of the ft re- 

 wings light olive, clouded, ami^extcnding itself to near the posterior margin, where 

 it meets a darker submargiual baud, the latter extending to the apex, and banded 



