SPHINX LUSCITIOSA. 115 



Secondaries yellowish grey ; brown marginal band, paler towards outer angle, and not reaching to ab- 

 dominal margin. Fringe white. 



Habitat. Canada, New England and Middle States, also Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, Indiana, Wiscon- 

 sin, and probably other States. Rare. 



Dr. Clemens' description applies only to the n)ale, which ditl'ers from the female much more than is 

 generally the case in this genus. The types were captured i)y Mr. T. B. Aslitou, who directed Dr. Clemens' 

 attention to them in the collection of George Newman, Philadelphia, where they were represented, I believe, 

 in both sexes. 



Of the larvre I believe nothing is known. 



SPHINX LUGENS. Walker. 



0. B. M., Vol. VIII, p. 219 (1856.) 



Orote & Robinson, List Lep. N. Am., p. 5 ( 18G8). 

 Agrim Lwjem, Grole, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sc, Vol. I, p. 26 (1873), Vol. II, p. 228 (1875). Oaumer, Observer of Nature, Vol. II, 



No. 5 (1875). 

 Sphinx Eremitoides, on page 93 of thin work. 



(PLATE XIII, FIG. 12 ?.) 



Since redescribing this species from examples received from Mr. Ashton, I have become indebted for 

 others to Prof Snow, of Kansas, who was the first to breed it and who describes the larva, when full-grown 

 and ready to enter the ground, as follows : 



"Length 3j inches, greatest thickness .56 in., head greenish brown with a distinct white stripe on each side; general colour of 

 body pale green, with se%'en oblique lateral white bands; caudal horn black and in length .37 in. It becomes full-grown from 21st of 

 September to 15th of October; imago appears from May 20th to June 10th. Food plants Salvia Pitcherii, Torrey, and Salvia Trickos- 

 temmoides, Parsh. The larvje were tirst observed by nie in October, 1873, in great abundance, and several imagines were obtained from 

 them in the following May .and June; the species is double brooded." Mr. Oaumer, in the "Observer," also states that "two broods of 

 these caterpillars appe.ar during the year, the first in .June, the second very late in autumn ; the last brood hibernate in the chrysalis 

 state under ground .and are much more numerous than the first." 



Walker's types in the British Museum were from Mexico, and no N. American collection, I believe, possessed it, nor w.as it known 

 to occur in the LTnited States until taken by Mr. Ashton and Prof. Snow, in Kansas. 



Dr. Clemens, in Jnl. A.ca.A. Nat. Sc, Phila., Vol. IV, p. 169 (1859), gives Lugens as a synonym of Sordida, Hub., (which latter 

 is, by the way, a synonym of Eremitus, Hub.). 



The example described by me on page 93 as having the black mesial band of secondaries broken in the middle by the whitish 

 ground is merely an aberration, as I have not observed this peculiarity in any of the examples since received. 



SPHINX PLOTA. 



Described on p. 106. 



(PLATE XIII, FIG. 13 J".) 



Since describing the males taken in Canada I have received a fine female of this species from Mr. Dury, 

 who captured it near Cincinnati; I have also heard of several olher examples that were taken in various 

 localities, so that this is evidently as widespread a species as most of its congenors. 



The female resembles the male, save that the primaries are more even coloured, there being fewer dark 

 marks than on the other sex. Of the larva, as yet, noihing has come to my knowledge. 



SPHINX JASMINEARUM. Boisduval. '^ 



Griffith's Cuvier's Animal King., XV, T. 83, f. 1 (1832). Leconle Sr., Wilson Treat. Ent. in Enc. Brit., p. 236. f. 5, 6 (1835). 

 Clemens, Jnl. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., Vol. IV, p. 173 (1859). Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 19 1 1860) ; Svn. Lep. X. A.m., 

 p. 198 (1862). Walker, C. B. M., Sup. Vol. XXXI, p. 36 (18611. Grote & Robinson, Proc Ent. Soc, PhiLa., Vol. V, p. 165 

 (1865). 

 Diludia Jasminearum, Grote & Robinson, List. Lep. N. .\m., p. 4 (1868). Orote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sc, Vol. I, p. 25 (1873), Vol. II, 

 p. 227 (1875). 



(PLATE XIII, FIG. 14 cf. 



Expands 3| to 5 inches. 



Head and body above whitish grey ; a black stripe on sides of the thorax ; on abdomen lateral white 

 spots edged with black; beneath white. 



