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Amwu out U) a \oufr^ Hhnular fK/uil. \u the ry>uth thr; butt/jrfly i« Haul 

 to r>r;r;ur from oarly Hfirifig till late in autumn. .vnuJrlfjr infi^re from the 

 data of^laifiable that it hWx-rtmUrH in the pupa .st^^e, the a^lult« apf;<rar- 

 iii^ in Af>ril ari'l aj^ain in lat<; Jiine and in fall (>i'.])UiUi\x',T anrl (x-A/Att-s), 

 thref; f>nx;rlH in all. The pupa «tage lawtw eight rJays in mifiaummer, 



IJfKHI.'IHA TKIWA Ltnv. 



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The eatf.Tpillar of thi.s .sfx;ei*« fFig. lo^ij, which njscmblew the c^im- 

 mon U)mnU>-w(>rTu hut i,« .smaller anrJ diflferently marked, was found by 

 u- in routht-Tu Illinoiii feedirijj on lat*; com, in the crown of the plant. 



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f'l's. l.'^fi. Ttierelra lervi, Jarva. .S'atural .".iae. 



fi';, 157. TltfriATa Urrvi, tmpa. Xatural 



The j(enu« i.s essentially tropical, and the prr;r^;nt HjXiCAf^ rangr^ from 

 S<juth America through Ontral America and the West Indifjs t/j the 

 s^juthern L'nitwl Stat*^, and thence sparingly to O^lora^Jo, Minnesr^ta, 

 and cnHiarn Canada. In the South and Wf«t it is common, but in our 

 latiturle it is met with infre^juently. HantcumuWar says that it Is rare 

 in New York, where it is sometimes found flying in flower-gardens. Its 

 favoritf; food plants .s^.>em to be of the madder family. We have brr^l it 

 at L'rbaria from Oaiiurn, arid in the Lnivensity grr^nhou-se from Houvor- 

 difi. In the Sr>uth it fw;<ls on button wwfd, Sjx^rrruj/ujf^e gMrra. 



The larvaj are alxjut two and a half inchfjs long. As in the grw^n 

 grape-sphinx (Kv(^njx rnyron), a pair of pale linfis, one on each side, rise 

 and converge behind t^> the base of the caurlal horn. In.stead of a line 

 f)f dark dots down 

 the middle of the 

 back Cas in th(; 

 grapf;-sphinx; the 

 back is covered 

 with short longi- 

 tudinal black linr«, 

 and the pale side- 

 line bears a row of 

 eye-HpotH ringed 

 with black, that on 



the fourth being j.-,,;. j.%. rti^Hru t^r-w, a/lult. Natural frize. 



