48 HAWK-MOTHS. 
brown, varied with ash-gray, with black streaks within the 
veins, and a white dot near the middle, resting on a long 
black line. The hind-wings are gray; a band across the 
middle, and a wide marginal band are black. The fringes of 
the wings are white, the head and thorax blackish-brown. 
The abdomen is dark-gray, with a central black line, and 
alternate black and grayish bands partly encircling it. 
_ The caterpillar of the Apple Sphinx, like most others of 
this family, is thick, cylindrical and apple-green, about two 
and a halt inches long, with a reddish-brown horn projecting 
from the hinder part of its back, and with seven oblique | 
stripes along each side, of a violet color, margined behind 
with white. This caterpillar also enters the earth for pupa- 
tion, and changes to a brown pupa with a short projecting 
tongue-case. The insect winters as a pupa. 
Hand-picking is all that is needed to keep this insect in 
check. 
THE BLIND-EYED SPHINX. 
(Paonias excecatus S. & A.). 
Among the numerous caterpillars that infest apple trees, 
we find sometimes a thick and cylindrical worm, about two 
anda kalf inches long, which differs from all those men- 
tioned thus far by having a greenand triangular head, bord- 
Fig, 52.—Paonias excecatus S. & A.; caterpillar. 
ered with white. Its body is of anapple-green color, paleron 
the back but deeper along the sides. Its skin is roughened 
with numerous white-tipped granulations; the caudal horn 
