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quinquemaculata Haw. in Steph. 111. Br. Eut. Haust. i, 119, Sphinx ; Wooil, 

 Ind. Ent. 246, pi. 53, fig. 23, Sphinx; Wlk., C. B. M. Lep. Het. viii, 217, 

 Sphinx; Clem.,* Journ. Ac. N. Sci. Phil. iv. 1859, 166, ilacrosila ; Morris,* 

 Syn. 1862, 190, ilacrosila; Harr..* Inj. Ids. Flint ed. 320, figs. 142, 143 (all 

 stages) ; Fitch,* 9th N. Y. Rep. pi. 4, fig. 1, Sphinx; Lint., Pr. Ent. Soc. Ph. 

 iii, 648, Sphinx; G. & R., Pr. E. S. Phil. v. 163, 187, Macrosila ; Beth.,* Can. 

 Eut. i, 17, Macrosila ; Gentry,* Can. Ent. vi, 88; Pack.,* Common Ins. 197. 

 fig. 239, Sphinx ; Bd.,« Sp. Gen. Lep. Het. i. 76, Sphinx; Eiley,® 8th Mo. Rep. 

 95, fig. 38 (all stages) ; Am.* Ent. i, 23, fig. 10 (all stages) ; Scud.,* Psyche ii, 

 75 ; Butl., Tr. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix, 707, pr. syn. : Beth., Can. Ent. xii, 101. 



Carolina J Don., Brit. lus. i, 11, pi. 361, Sjyhinx ; Wlk., C. B. M. Lep. Het. viii. 

 217, pr. syn. 



General color above and helovp ashy gray. Dorsum of thorax brownish, collar 

 tipped with brownish ; a fine, black, transverse line at base; a broader, arcuate 

 one at middle, and another less distinct midway between the last line and the 

 tip. Two or three inconspicuous, transverse lines anteriorly on dorsum of thorax. 

 Patagise edged with black, and an augulated black line through the middle, not 

 reaching the tip. The metathoracic tufts are blue, followed by a black patch, 

 which extends across the base of thorax and is followed by a black line. Ab- 

 domen with a fine black dorsal line, a row of five orange colored spots surrounded 

 with black along the side, and the segments above and below these spots are 

 edged with white. Beneath, a row of four or five black spots along the middle 

 of abdomen. Primaries shaded with brown beyond the middle and toward apex, 

 a series of three indistinct, parallel, blackish lines from costa near base, running 

 outwardly to near the small, round, discal ringlet, thence inwardly bent and 

 much more distinct to the inner margin near base. A series of three nearly 

 parallel, much angulated brown lines from outer fourth of costa, outwardly 

 curved to middle, then obliquely inward to middle of inner margin. A less an- 

 gulated line, from costa uearer to apex brown for one-fourth of its cour.se, then 

 black and nearly parallel with outer margin to inner margin within the anal 

 angle. A subtermina! brown line, inwardly edged with white, runs near to and 

 parallel with outer margin, but does not reach either costa or inner margin. An 

 oblique, sinuate, black, apical dash ; another longitudinal dash upwardly cui-ved 

 at its outer end between veins six and seven ; between veins five and six another, 

 but less distinct black line exteuding from the end of cell to the outer, black, 

 transverse line. Fringes brown, narrowly cut with sordid white. Secondaries 

 whitish gray, with a broad outer border of ashy gray, on the inside of which is 

 a blackish baud, broader toward costa and tapering to a mere line at anal angle. 

 A brown spot at base of wing ; a doubly curved, basal, blackish, transverse line ; 

 middle of wings crossed by two blackish, parallel, dentate lines, making an out- 

 ward and downward curve to the anal angle. Fringes gray, cut with white. 

 Beneath, primaries with the apical and intra-venular black dash reproduced, and 

 an obscure, dentate brown line across outer fourth. Secondaries with outer 

 margin shaded, and two strongly dentate, median transverse lines, rather widely 

 separated at costa, but converging toward inner margin. Expanse 3.75—5 in. ; 

 94—125 mm. 



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