182 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Grt., Pr. E. S. Phil. v. 40, Deilephila ; Buff., Bull, i, 20, DeilephHa ; id. ii,225, 

 Hyles ; Strk., Lep. Rhop. et Het. 79 = gallii ; Saund., Can. Ent. ix, 63, fig. 2. 

 Deilephila; Fruit Ins. 256, fig. 267; Edw., Pr. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. 90; Maassen. 

 Stet-t. Ent. Zeit. 1880. v. 41, p. 58, pr. syn. ; Fernald,* Sphiugidai N. E. 55, pi. 

 2. fig. 1, Deilephila ; Grt., Hawk Moths 31, Deilephila. 



intermedia Kirhy, Fn. Bor. Am. iv, 302; Harr., Sill. Journ. 36, 306: G. & R., 

 Pr. E. S. Phil. V. 179; Bd., Sp. Gen. Het. i, 169, pr. syn.; Strk., Lep. Rhop. 

 et Het. 140, pr. syn. ; Beth., Can. Ent. x, 152, pr. syn. ; Butl., Tr. Zool. Soc, 

 Lend, ix, 569. 



canadensis Gu. mss. G. & R., Pr. E. S. Phil. v. 179, pr. syn. 



epilobii ji Harr., Cat. Ins. Mass. 1833, 590; Sill., Journ. 36, 305 {nome)) bis 

 lectnm). 



The upper side of the head and thorax is olive brown, with a white stripe 

 along each side, which is edged with black on the upper side along the thorax. 

 The palpi are whitish beneath and olive brown above. The abdomen is olive 

 l)rown, with a row of small white spots along the middle. The first and third 

 segments ai'e marked with black on tlie sides; the second, fonnh and following 

 segmenis with white, some of them more or less suffused with pink. The under 

 side of the thorax and the legs are of a dull yellowish brown and the alxlomen 

 is darker brown witli white lines along the edge of the segments. The prima- 

 ries are olive brown with a buff colored liaud extending from the hind margin 

 near the base to the apex of the wing. The lower edge of this band is slightly 

 sinuous, and the upper is irregularly indented. There is a black patch at the 

 l)ase of the wing and another at the end of the cell, and the terminal space and 

 fringes are olive gray. The secondaries are black, with a rose-red central band, 

 which ends in a white spot at the inner margin. The outer margin is narrowly 

 edged with dull brown, which is often stained with reddish. Fringes white. 

 Beneatli paler, more sordid than above, the maculation of upper side reproduced, 

 the band on primaries not reaching the hind margin and broader basally, so that 

 it becomes really an oblique triangle. Expands 2.65—3 inches ; 65 — 75 mm. 



H<ib. — Canada to Georgia ; westward to California ; Labrador. 



The clasper of the S in this species is rather small, slender, but 

 little curved, acute at tip. 



A widely distributed, but rather distinctively Northern form, and 

 easily recognizable from the characters above given. 



Walker tirst referi'ed this as a synonym of gallii, and he is fol- 

 lowed bv Clemens in this reference. Harris states that the lai'va of 

 this species differed from that of the European form, but Dr. Harris 

 knew only one of the varieties of the larva, and I cannot find any 

 essential differences from descriptions. ]\Ir. Grote again, in 1865, 

 Pr. E. S. Ph. V. 40, separates the forms as distinct ; he says : " I find 

 the following difierences in the imagos, which I am satisfied are spe- 

 cifically distinct. In our species the central fascia on anterior wings 

 is of a warmer shade, not excavated inwardly at base, and not con- 



