18 METAMORPHOSES OF BRAZILIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



HETEROCERA. 



Family Sphingid^. 



Genus Philampelus. Harris. 



XCV. — Philampelus Vitis. 



Sphinx vitis, Linn. Mus. Ulr., p. 354 (1764). 



Sphinx fasciatus, Sulzer, Gesch. Ins., pi. 20, fig. 1 (1776). 



(a, Penultimate stage. 



[b, Last stage, not full-fed. 



The caterpillar feeds upon a species of Jussicsa that 

 grows in marshes and at the sides of streams. It has a 

 large yellow flower, something like an evening primrose. In 

 its earlier stages the caterpillar is green, with the characteris- 

 tic diagonal markings of the Sphiugidse ; but after the last 

 change of skin the colouring undergoes a remarkable change, 

 the markings being very intricate and the general colour a 

 rich madder brown. It is very subject to attacks of an 

 ichneumon. Out of some twenty specimens I only succeeded 

 in rearing three moths, the rest being all ichneumonized. 



Pupa. Not preserved. 



The caterpillar enters the ground to undergo pupation. 



(Full-fed, San Paulo, 7th Jan., 1882. ) 

 I^^^«- jlmago, 6th Feb., „ | ^^ ^^^^^ 



The moth appears a month after the caterpillar enters 

 the ground. 



V. — Philampelus Anchemolus. 



Sphinx Anchemolus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii., pi. 224, fig. o. 



(1782). 



Larva. Not preserved. 



The caterpillar of this species feeds on the grape-vine. I 



