290 Catalogue of North American Sphinges. 
ORDER LEPIDOPTERA. L. 
SPHINGES. L. 
Crepuscularia. Latr. Clostérocéres. Duméril. Hétérocéres. 
Boisduval. (Part. ) 
Tribe I. SPHINGES LEGITIME. L. 
Family I. SPHINGIADA. H. The Sphingians. 
§ Alis angulatis. L. 
Genus I. Smerintuus. Latr. 
* Antenne transversely biciliated beneath in the males. 
L. S. excecata. Smith—Abbot. 
Fawn-colored ; fore-wings deeply scalloped and toothed on the 
outer edge, clonded and banded with brown; hind-wings rose- 
colored in the middle, with a large round eye-like black spot, 
having a pale blue centre, near the anal angle; fringes narrow, 
white ; thorax with a central lance-shaped chestnut-colored spot, 
the point of which extends upon the head. Expands two and a 
half to three inches and a half. Larva granulated, apple-green, 
with two short pale lines before, seven oblique yellowish white 
lines on each side, and a bluish caudal horn. It feeds upon the 
leaves of the apple-tree, and upon those of Rosa Carolina also, 
according to Abbot, who (in his Insects of Georgia, p. 49, pl. 25,) 
has represented a variety of the larva of a yellow color, and greet 
ish at the sides, which are obliquely banded with yellow, and 
have two longitudinal rows of rust-red spots upon them. It en- 
ters the earth to undergo its transformations. Pupa chestnut- 
brown, with a short obtuse anal spine. 
2. S. Astylus. Drury. = integerrima. H. Catalogue Ins. 
Mass.* 
Ciunamon-colored ; fore-wings angulated but entire, tinged 
with rosy white at base, with whitish wavy bands near the tip, 4 
bluish mark along the inner margin, and a tawny yellow spot oP 
each outer angle; hind-wings tawny yellow at base, with 4 
round black eye-like spot, having a pale blue centre, near the anal 
angle; middle of the thorax cinnamon-red, shoulder-covers paler 
* Catalogue of the Insects of Massachusetts, by T. W. Harris; appended 1 
Prof. Hitchcock's Report on the Geology, &c. of Massachusetts. 
