SPHINX, 47 



The pupa is contained in an arched cell in the ground. It 

 is shining brown, darker on the abdomen, with a separate 

 spiral sheath for the proboscis. The moth emerges after 

 resting for four weeks in the pupa ; or not till the May or 

 June of the following year. 



GENUS SnilNX. 



Sjyhuix, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 4S9 (175S); 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 536 (1775); Ochsenheimer, 



Schmett. Eur., ii., p. 1S3 (iSoS) ; Stephens, 111. Brit. 



Ent. Haust., i., p. 118 (1828); Duponchel, Lepid. 



France, Suppl, ii., p. 156 (1835); Walker, List Lepid. 



Ins. Brit. Mus., viii., p. 21T (1854); Boisduval, Spec. 



Gen. Lepid. Lleter., i., p. 69 (1S75). 

 Lct/iia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 140 (1822 ?). 



The type of Sphinx is S. ligiistri^ and it was thus named, as 

 already mentioned, from the appearance of the caterpillar 

 when at rest. Again, the insect was called ^'' Papilio sphinx'" 

 in some of the earlier writings of Linnaeus, and hence Sphinx 

 is one of the very few older genera of which the type was fixed 

 from its origin without any possibility of doubt. 



Sphinx includes upwards of twenty species, chiefly North 

 American, with shorter bodies, and narrower and more 

 pointed wings than PhlegctJio?itius. The hind margins are 

 almost entire, and the fore-wings are generally of a lighter 

 colour, varied wnth grey, and without the zig-zag black 

 markings so conspicuous in Phlegethonlius. 'J1ie hind-wings 

 are grey or pink, with undulating black bands ; and the 

 abdomen is marked with alternate })ink or grey, and black 

 bands, instead of with lateral spots. The proboscis is shorter 

 than in Fhlei^cthontiies, 



