180 INSECTS INFESTING THE GRAPE. 



Fig. 159. — Achemon Sphinx — colors, gray, brown and pink. 



Fig. 159. 



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Remedies.— Nos. 14, 100 and 101. (See letter of Mr. Blower, 

 No. 38.) 



CHAPTER C. 



The Satellite Sphinx. (Cal.) 



( PJiilampelis mteJJiiin. — Linn. ) 



Synonym. — /'. jKHKhirns. — Hubner. 



Order, Lepidoptek.v ; Family, Simiixgid.e. 



[Feeding upon the leaves of the grapevine ; a large brown 

 worm, having five or six large eream-eolored spots on each 

 side of the body. ] 



The egg from wliicli this worm hatches is deposited singly 

 upon a lc;if. When (irst hatched, and for some time after- 

 wards, the worm is green, with a tinge of pink along the sides, 

 and on the hind jtnrtof the body is a long curved horn. After 

 the worm has cast its skin about three times, the horn 

 disai)pears, and in its |)lnee is ;i polished, black tubercle; the 

 color of the l)ody is now a rich velvety l)rown, with five or six 

 cream-yellow spots upon each side. When fully grown (Fig- 



