1900 SUPPLEMENT—RECENT INTRODUCTIONS, &C. 
SPHERELLA FRAGARIZ. See Strawberry 
Leaf Blight. 
SPHZROLOBIUM. To the species described on 
p. 469, Vol. III., the following should be added: 
Ss. grandiflorum on See Jl. bright yellow and red, 
usually in pairs in the axils of scale-like bracts; standard 
din. long; racemes graceful, rather dense, terminal. Summer. 
Stems ft. to 3ft. high, terete, Rush-like, rather thick, leafless, 
or clothed with small, linear leaves. 1893. (B. M. 7308.) 
SPHZ[ROPSIS. Sce Spheropside. 
SPHZEROPTERIS BARBATA. This requires 
stove temperature, a shady ‘situation, and an abundance 
of water at the roots all the year round.“ It is propagated 
by spores, which are freely produced when the plant has 
attained its full development. 
SPHZROSPORA. A synonym of Acidanthera 
(which see). 
SPHEROTHECA CASTAGNETI. 
berry—Fungi. 
SPHHEROTHECA HUMULI. See Strawberry— 
Fungi. 
aa MORS-UVZ. 
ungi. 
SPHHEROTHECA PANNOSA. 
Fungi, Vol. III. 
SPHINGIDZ. Thongh taken as a family the 
strikingly beautiful Hawk-Moths give yery little trouble 
to the gardener, yet now and again there are to be found 
on Vines and upon fruit trees, as well as upon a few 
flowering plants, one or two species of the seventeen with 
which this country is credited. It will, therefore, be as 
well to direct attention to them, for even if present in 
small numbers the larye are such enormous feeders 
that they wonld quickly do an amount of injury to any 
plant on which they elected to dwell. Fortunately 
the caterpillars are hen and are not likely long to 
escape the eye of the vigilant gardener, and particularly 
as their depredations are so much in evidence. 
Of those at all likely to cause trouble to fruit-growers, 
the Large Elephant Hawk-Moth (Chzrocampa elpenor) is 
the commonest; indeed, it shares with its relative, 
C. porcellus, the credit of being amongst the smallest as 
well as amongst the commonest of the family to which 
they belong. Both feed occasionally upon the Vine, as 
well as upon Codlins and Cream (Hpilobium hirsutum), 
Fuchsias, &c. Then there is the Eyed Hawk-Moth 
(Smerinthus ocellatus), another fairly common species in 
this country, and a distinct one to boot: Not one of 
these elegant Moths is likely to be seen on the wing 
by day, but they may sometimes be found resting in the 
vicinity of their food-plants, and awaiting the cover of 
evening before venturing forth to pair. 
See Straw- 
Sce Gooseberry 
See Rosa— 
Fic. 681. LARGE ELEPHANT HAWkK-MorTH. 
C. elpenor (Fig. 681) is on the wing towards the end of 
May or the beginning of June, in which latter month 
the eggs are deposited. These are hatched in July, and 
the larve at once commence to feed. It must not be 
assumed that the Vine is the only food-plant of this 
species, or indeed the commonest, but it is selected, as 
is also the Apple-Tree. By the time the caterpillars are 
foll-fed they approach 3in. in length. As is sometimes 
the case with Sphingide the larve are of two kinds, 
brown and green, with a velvety surface, but quite 
destitute of hairs or points. The reticulations or other 
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Sphingidze—continued. 
markings vary with individuals, some being black, with 
yellowish sides, and others brownish. As will be seen 
by the illustration (Fig. 682), the head is small, and there 
is a small black horn situate on the twelfth segment. 
The creature, moreover, has two large and distinct eye- 
spots, and when, as is its wont if danger threatens, the 
anterior portion of the body is contracted into the posterior 
these spots look like eyes, and give a somewhat forbidding 
look to the insect. ’ 
Fic. 682. LARVA AND PuPA OF LARGE ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH. 
When full-fed the pupa state (Fig. 682) is assumed on 
the surface of the ground, the caterpillar haying previously 
constructed a rough kind of cocoon from any pieces 
of material, such as leaves, to be found in the vicinity 
of its food-plant. In that it passes the winter, and 
emerges, as already stated, in May of the next year. 
The Moths are elegant of form and beautiful of 
marking. The fore-wings are bronze-green, margined 
with pak and are traversed by pink lines; the thorax 
and the body are also green, and further adorned by 
crimson stripes. The under-surface is a lovely pink. 
C. porcellus (Small Ekephant Hawk-Moth) has such a 
close resemblance to its relative just described, thet 
despite the colour variation it should readily be recognised 
The perfect insect, larva, and pupa, are shown at Figs. 
683 and 684, 
Smerinthus ocellatus (Hyed Hawk-Moth, Fig. 685) 
now and then occasions trouble to the Apple and Pear 
grower by the presence of the larve in considerable 
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