HAWK-MOTHS. 31 
The pupa is blackish-brown, with the entire surface 
shagreened. The terminal spine is broad at the base, 
prominent, flat, rounded at the tip, and armed with some 
fine hooks. 
The caterpillars feed upon different kinds of snow-balls, 
waxberry, hawthorn, apple and plum. 
The adult insect is shown in Fig 30, plate V. 
THE GRAPE-VINE AMPHION. 
(Amphion nessus Cram.). 
This beautiful moth (Fig. 31) is found from time to time 
flying about from the first to the middle of June in broad 
sunlight, and in this way resembling the insect just de- 
scribed. Specimens were caught here as late as the begin- 
ning of August. 
The moth, which expands from one inch and three- 
fourths to two inches, has the upper side of head, thorax, 
abdomen and fore-wings of a 
dull, dark, rusty-brown color, 
The middle of the fore-wings 
is crossed by a rich, dark- 
brown oblique band, within 
which are two lines of the 
same color; beyond the cen- 
tral band is another line fol- 
Fig. 31.—Amphion nessus Cram, 
After Beutenmueller. lowed by several spots of the 
same color. None of the markings are clearly defined. The 
fringes are of the same color as the wings, except at the 
middle of the excavations, where they are pale yellow. The 
hind-wings are of a rich, dark brown color, with an oblique, 
central reddish band: the fringes are pale yellow, spotted 
with brown. 
The caterpillar, which feeds upon the grape-vine, Vir- 
ginia creeper, Epilobium, and some other plants, measures 
