384 



INJURIOUS AND BENEFICIAL INSECTS OF CALIFORNIA. 



sugar beet, buckwheat, chickweed, currant, bitter dock, elm, evening 

 primrose, gooseberry, grape, melon, pear, plum, purslane, tomato. 



Fig. 382. — The white-lined sphinx, Celerio lineata (Fab.). Green larva, 

 black larva and pupa. Natural .size. (Original) 



turnip and watermelon. The white-lined sphinx, however, generally 

 does little damage to cultivated plants, though in the spring of 1914 



considerable injury was done to vineyards 



in the Sacramento Valley. 



THE ACHEMON SPHINX 



Pholus achemon (Drury) 



( I'hilanipclus achemon Drury) 



(Figs. 383, 384) 



Description. — The moth is brownish-gray 

 in color, with light and dark variegations 

 and well defined dark brown spots, as shown 

 in Fig. 384. The hind wings are rich pink 

 with brown horder and dark spots. The 

 body is reddish-gray with two deep-brown 

 triangular spots on the thorax. The ex- 

 panded wings measure 3 or 4 inches across. 

 The larva or caterpillar is first green, chang- 

 a S^m 8 on~spMnx, pa<S ing to reddish-brown as it grows older. The 

 achemon (Drury). xatmai ,i (>rsn , n j s brown with from six to eight 

 size. (Original) . . ' ,. . . , .„. 



whitish, oblique bars along the sides. The 

 pupa? are rich brown. The eggs are globular, green and glued to the 



leaves. 



