34 HAWK-MOTHS. 
to become injurious. This caterpillar is about two inches 
long, of a fine green color; its caudal horn is whitish at the 
tip; the head is small and the body tapers from the third 
segment towards the head. It enters the ground late in 
June or in the beginning of July for pupation, but not very 
deeply, and here it remains until the middle of May, when 
the moth emerges; there is but a single annual brood. 
_ The moth, which expandsalittlelessthan two inches, has 
an ashen-gray head and body; the thorax is shaded with 
brown, and there are two rows of dark brown spots on the 
abdomen. The last segment is trifurcated; the antennz are 
Fig. 33.—Deidemia inscripta Harr. After Beutenmueller. 
serrated in the male, simple in the female. The fore-wings 
have the same color as the body, with bands and marks of 
rich brown of various shades; there is a pale discal spot. 
and also a small triangular spot near the exterior margin. 
The hind-wings are reddish, or reddish-brown, with darker 
outer margins. The under side of the wings is ashen-gray, 
with darker borders; the small triangular white spot on the 
upper surface near the outer edge of fore-wings is repeated. 
This rare moth is shown in Fig. 33. 
THE WHITE-LINED MORNING-SPHINX. 
(Deilephila lineata Fab.). 
This very beautiful moth is quitecommon in Minnesota, 
and would cause much more injury to our cultivated grape- 
vines if it did not prefer the common purslane for food, to 
