116 SPHINX JASMINEARUM. 



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 of 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 ; basal half of secondaries paler and greyish. 



Habitat. New York, New Jej-sey, 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 uppermost ; caudal horn green, with dull 

 red serrations. Feeds on ash, and probably elm. 



The genus Diludia in which Grote places this species he constructed ivitli Sphiiix Brontes, Drury, for his type. Here an 

 words, from wliich it will be seen that the weighty reasons for erecting the genus Diludia are these, that : "From Macrosila the sp 



are his 

 species 

 difJ'er by the straighter external margin of the primaries, and by the eiserted internal angle, in those characters resembling ^»?yjAon2/nx, 

 while tlie normal palpal conformation, with a number of other characters, amply separate them from Prof. Poey's genus. We do not 

 give further characters here of a genus which we are satisHed should be erected, since we have insufficient material upon which to am- 

 plify from needed dissections."* And of course, as the authors were "satisfied," it was the duty of the scientific world to humbly submit 

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



SPHINX CONIFER ARUM, abbot & smith. 



Lep. Insects of Georgia, p. 81, T. 42 (1797). Harris, Sill. Jnl. Art. & Sc, XXXVI, p. 296 (1S39); Ins. Inj. Veg. (FUnt's 

 Ed.l, p. 328 (1862). Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 18 (1860) ; Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 199 (1862). 



HyhicuK Conifexirum, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 139 (1816). Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. V, p. 166 (1865) ; 

 List Lep. X. Am., p. 6 (1888). 



Anceri/x Vonijerarum. Wulker. C. B. M., Vol. VIII, p. 224 (1856). 



EUema Coniferarum, Gr-te, Bull. Buft'. !Soc. Nat. Sc, Vol. I, p. 27 (1873). 



Lapura Conijerarum, 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 surface 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 



Abbot has figured the larva, which he says fed on Pinus Palustris ; it has a yellow head, and the body 

 chequered with light and dark grey squares. 



SPHINX HARRISII. Clemens 



Ellcma Hnrrisii, Ckmais,3n\. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., Vol. IV, p. 188 (18.59). Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 20 (I860). Grote & Robin- 

 son, Proc. Em. Soc, Phila., p. 166 (1865). Lintner, 23d Eeport N. Y. State Cab. Nat. Hist., p. 170, T. 8, f 10 J', 11 ? 

 (18691. Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sc, Vol. I, p. 27 (1873). 



EUema Harrisi, Mo-ris, Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 216 (1862). 



Hyloiens llarrisii, Grote & Robinson, List Lep. N. Am., p. 5 (1868). 



Eilema Harrisii, Walker, C. B. M., Supplement Vol. XXXI, p. 37 (1864). 



Sphinz Coniferarum, Ilurris. Sill. Am. Jnl. Sc, Vol. XXXVl, p. 297 (1839). 



Lapara Bombycoides, Grote, Bull. Buft'. Soc, Vol. II, p. 228 (1875). 



(PLATE XIII, FIG. 16 $.) 



Expands 1^ inches. 



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



brownish. 



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

 tSee page 93. 



