Sphingidae 



latest Revision of the Sphingidce, recognize five species as 

 belonging to the genus, three of which occur within the limits 

 of the United States, tantaltis Linnaeus, /j<iMS Cramer, and the 

 species we figure upon our plate. All three have by some 

 recent writers been regarded as practically identical. Into the 

 somewhat vexed question of their specific relationship it is not 

 our purpose to enter in these pages. 



(i) S. titan Cramer, Plate 11, Fig. 16, 6 . (The White- 

 banded Day-Sphinx.) 



The white spots of the fore wings are semi-transparent. On 

 the under side the wings are whitish at the base and on the 

 inner margin of the secondaries. They are crossed about the 

 middle by two parallel distinct dark bands, which are quite close 

 to each other. 



The moth sometimes strays as fir north as Massachusetts. 

 It is very common in southern Florida and throughout tropical 

 America. 



Genus H^MORRHAGIA Grote 



Moth. — Head small. Tongue as long as the body. Antenna 

 clavate, two-thirds the length of the costa, with a minute 

 recurved hook at the tip. Thorax smooth, strongly projecting 

 before the insertion of the wings. Abdomen more or less 

 flattened beneath, and, especially in the males, adorned with a 

 broad fan-shaped anal tuft. The primaries have eleven veins. 

 Both primaries and secondaries are transparent about the 

 middle; the outer margin of the former is evenly rounded, and 

 of the latter slightly excavated between veins i b and 2. 



Larva. — Characteristically sphingiform, provided with an 

 anal horn. The epidermis in most species of the genus is more 

 or less granulated. The caterpillars feed for the most part upon 

 Symphoricarpus, Lonicera, l^iburnum, Cratcegus, and allied 

 plants. 



Pupa. — The pupa, which is brown in color, is enclosed in 

 a somewhat dense cocoon, formed on the surface of the ground 

 under fallen leaves. 



(1) Hsemorrhagia thysbe Fabricius, Plate I, Fig. 5, 5. 

 (The Humming-bird Clearwing.) 



Syn. pelasgus Cramer; ruficaudis Kirby; etolus Boisduval. 



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