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Hyloicus plebeius. 



Head light pea green, somewhat scabrous, with a black band on each 

 side, passing from near the top of the head to a point behind the antenna3. 

 Antennse and labium wliite; the other mouth-parts black. Body light pea 

 green; the seven oblique sphingial bands are formed of a narrow white 

 stripe, edged posteriorly with lemon-yellow and anteriorly with black, in 

 front of which the green of the body is darker than elsewhere; the black 

 does not quite reach the edges of the segments, the white dies out a little 

 sooner than the black, while the yellow reaches both edges, and in the last 

 stripe extends over to the base of the caudal horn ; the spiracles, which are 

 faint brownish red, are half immersed in the yellow stripes. The caudal 

 horn curves only on its apical half, and is light blue, covered with black 

 tubercles irregularly, and so thickly that the terminal third is entirely 

 black. Last segment and proleg dotted with black warts, and the edges 

 furnished with a few very short hairs.': First joint of jointed legs white, 

 with a black sjiot on the outer surface; the others black, and all furnished 

 with a few white hairs. Prolegs green, the tip furnislied exteriorly with a 

 large black spot; the hooks black. Length 75 mm., breadth 11 mm. 

 Feeds on Syringa vulgaris. Collected on Cape Cod, Mass. (Described in 

 1859.) (S. H. Sc udder.) 



Hyloicus saniptri. Good clescr. of a larva perhaps of this 

 species, by Strecker, xiii (1876), 118. 



Hyloicus cupressi. Brief descr. of an undetermined species 

 of Sphinx, by E. Doubleday, in Harr. Ent. Corr., 128, from 

 an unpiibhshed figure by Abbot. Mr. A. R. Grote says, in 

 substance, in a letter dated Febr. 1, 1878; " I think that tlie 

 larva on p. 128 may be Sphinx cupressi Boisduval, Sphing., 

 pi. ii, figs. 3-5, known from Abbot's figures alone, which are 

 reproduced by Boisduval." Boisduval's figure is mentioned 

 by Strecker, xiii (1876), 120. 



Ellema coniferarum. Figure of Sphinx coniferarum, in Abb., 

 pi. 42. Descr. of Abbot's figure, in Harr. Sphinx, 297 ; an- 

 other, in Morr., 199, exceedingly brief descr. of same, in Harr. 

 Ins. luj. Veg., 328 ; another, by Strecker, xiii (1876), 116. 

 [Harris' descr. of the imago of aS'. coyiiferarum belongs, not to 

 this species, but to E. harrisii ; the descr. of the larva, how- 

 ever, being copied, belongs to E. coniferarum.^ 



Ellema harrisii. Exceedingly brief descr., from memory, 

 by G. Newman, in Morr., 216 ; not much better descr., by 

 Strecker, xiii (1876), 117. Full descr., by Lintner, in Pr. E. 

 S. Ph., iii (1864), 669. Figure, by Lintner, in Ent. Contr., 

 i (1873), pi. viii, fig. 8. 



