116 SPHINX JASMIiXEARUM. 



Upper surface ; primaries same colour as body, with zig-zag transverse brown lines; a dark shade ex- 

 tends from a little below the middle of exterior margin to the costa interior to the discal spot, this latter white 

 and inconspicuous; fringes white, brown at terminations ot veins. 



Secondaries dark brown, with obsolete traces of marginal and mesial bands; greyish at abdominal and 

 inner half of exterior margins ; fringes as in superiors. 



Under surface light brown ; ba.sal half of secondaries paler and greyish. 



Habitat. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and others of the Atlantic States. Rare. 



Larva pale yellowish-green, dorsal lines of darker colour on the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth 

 segments ; transverse narrow white lateral stripes on all the segments save the two last, where these stripes 

 which extend to the caudal horn are red and green, the latter colour upjwrmost ; caudal horn green, with dull 

 red serrations. Feeds on ash, and probably elm. 



Till' friniis I>iliiclin in wliiili (irote plaws lliis .species he constructed with SpAtnx £ronto, Dnirv, for his lype. Here are liis 

 worii>, from wliicli il will be seen that the weii;hty rea-sons for erecting the genus Dihulia are these, that : "Kroni Maerosila the specie.s 

 ditTer liy the straighter external margin of the jpriniaries. and by the exserted internal angle, in those characters resembling Amphonynx, 

 while the normal jialpal conformation, with a number of other characters, amply separate them from Prof. Poey's genus. AVe do not 

 give furlhcr charaiiers here of a gcnns which we are satisfied should be erected, since we have insufficient material upon which to am- 

 plify from neeiled dis,seclions."* And of course, as the authors were "satisfied," it was the duty of the scientific world to huniblv submit 

 without putting G. & R. to the trouble of giving "further characters." 



SPHINX CONIFERARUM. abbot & Smith. 



Lep. Insects of Georgia, p. 81, T. 42 (1797). Harris, .Sill. Jnl. Art. & Sc, XXXVI, p. 296 (1839) ; Ins. Ini. Veg. (Flint's 

 Ed.), p. 328 (1862). Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 18 (1860); Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. ]!)9 (1862). 



Hyloicus Conij'eiarum, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schniett., p. 139 (1816). Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. V, p. 166 (1865); 

 List Lep. X. .\ni., p. .5 (lSt)8). 



Aneenjx Coni/erunim. WuWer, C. B. M., Vol. VIII, p. 224 (1856). 



Ellema Cnuiferarum, Gr le. Bull. But!'. Soc. Xat. Sc, Vol. I, p. 27 (1873). 



Lapura Conijerarvm, Grote, 1. c, Vol. II, p. 228 (1875). 



(PLATE XIII, FIG. 15 cf.) 



Expands about 2| inches. 



Head and collar umber; thorax and abdomen ash-grey and immaculate. 



Upper surface, superiors ash-grey with two short black streaks in the cells between the median nervules, 

 and an inconspicuous dentated transverse line succeeded inwardly by a slightly paler shade ; fringes white, 

 with brown at terminations of venation. Inferior wings brownish-grey, paler at base; fringes as on superiors. 

 Under surliice pale brownish-grey. 



Habitat. New York, Maryland, Georgia, and doubtless others of the Southern and Middle States. 

 Exceedingly rare. 



The only examples I know of are in the collection of Titian Peale, Esq., and two in my own possession, 

 one of which was taken in New York State, and the other was raised from a larva found feeding on pine, near 

 Baltimore, Md.f 



.\bbot h:is figured the larva, which he says fed on Pinus Palustrls ; it has a yellow head, and the body 

 chequered with light and dark grey squares. 



SPHINX HARRISII. Clemens 



Ellema Harrisii, C/mens, .Jnl. Acad. Xat. Sc, Phila., Vol. IV, p. 188 (1S59). Morris. Cat. Lep. X. Am., p. 20 (1860). Grote d: Bobin^ 

 son, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., p. 166 (1865). Lintncr, 23d Keport X. V. State Cab. Nat. Hist., p. 170, T. 8, f. 10 ^, 11 Q 

 (1869). Grote, Bull. Bufl'. Soc. Xat. Sc, Vol. I, p. 27 (1873). 



Ellema Harrisi, Mo-ris, Syn. Lep. X. .^m., p. 210 (1862). 



Hytoirus Harrisii, Grvic A Robinson, List Lep. X. Am., p. 5 (1868). 



Eitemn JInrrisii, Walker. C. B. M., Supplement Vol. XXXI, p. 37 (1864). 



Sp/ii'iii Coni/erarum, Hums, Sill. Am. .Jul. Sc, Vol. XXX^■1, p. 297 (1839). 



Lapara liombycoUles, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc, Vol. II, p. 228 (1875). 



(PLATE XIII, FIG. 16 ?.) 



Expands IJ inciies. 



Head and body ash grey ; upper edge of tegulse edged with brown ; abdomen immaculate. Beneath 

 brownish. 



♦Proc Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. V. p. 188 (1865). 

 tSee page 93. 



