8 HAWK-MOTHS OF THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK CITY 



Hind wings uniform warm brown, tipped with white. 



La para coiiijcrantiii. 

 Fore wings with a double-toothed trans\-erse line and 

 two angulated lines. 

 Hind wings as in coirijcrantni . . . .Lapara bombycoides. 

 Fore wings light gray, sometimes streaked with brown. 

 Hind wings rusty brown with darker outer border. 



DilopJwnota ello. 

 Fore wings dark brown with ash-gray markings. 



Hind wings dull rusty brown Dcidaiiiia iuscripia. 



Fore wings light ochre brown, sometimes marked with 

 darker brown. 

 Hind wings similar, with two narrow lines. 



Cressouia jiiglaudis. 



Section 7. — With gray or blackish brown markings, without pink, 

 yellow or green. 



Hind wings with a white band. 



Fore wings ash gray with four black streaks between 

 the veins. 

 Thorax gray with two black lines. . .Sphinx chersis. 

 Fore wings dirty gray with black dashes. 



Thorax dull gray with two obscure black lines ; sides 



whitish Sphinx canadensis. 



Fore wings sooty black, grayish in the middle. 



Thorax brown black; side gray.. . .Sphinx gordins. 

 Fore wings deep sooty blackish bro\\'n, pale gray along 

 the costal region. 

 Thorax deep brownish lilack, sides ]iale grayish. 



Sphinx drnpifcranini. 

 Hind wings without white band. 



Fore wings gray with many dark transverse wa\-y lines. 

 Thorax grayish bordered with black. 



Ceratoniia itndnlosa. 

 Fore wings light gray with a prominent oblique black 



dash Cld(Ciiograninia jasinincaritm. 



Fore wings gray streaked with black and with a 

 white dot near the middle Sphi)ix ph'bciits. 



