Catalogue of North American Sphinges. 295 
4S. Kalmie. Smith-Abbot. 
Rusty-buff ; fore-wings streaked with light brown, and with a 
narrow whitish band near the outer margin ; hind-wings with a 
harrow central and a broad marginal blackish band; fringes 
brown spotted with white; shoulder-covers white edged with 
brown; abdomen with a slender dorsal black line and short 
transverse bands alternately black and white at the sides; be- 
neath dull reddish white. Expands three and a half to four and 
aquarter inches. Larva, according to Abbot, (Ins. Georg. p. 73, 
pl. 37) pale green, with seven oblique yellow bands, edged above 
with violet, on each side, the caudal horn and a line on each side 
of the head blue, and the hinder pair of legs yellow. Feeds on 
the leaves of Kalmia latifolia, and transforms in the earth. Pu- 
pa with a short detached tongue-case. 
5. 8. Gordius. Cramer. 
Brownish ash-gray; fore-wings streaked with black between 
the hervures, with the anterior and inner margin dusky-brown, a 
White dot near the middle, and a large gray spot at base ; fringe 
Spotted with white ; hind-wings with a narrow central and a 
broad marginal dusky brown band, and a white fringe; thorax 
deep chestnut, with the sides and the head above whitish ; ab- 
omen with a central black line, and the sides ash-white trans- 
versely banded with black. Expands three to three inches and 
a half. Larva apple-green, with seven oblique white lateral 
bands, slightly edged above with violet, a rust-red caudal horn, 
and a brownish line on each side of the head. It lives on the 
apple-tree, and enters the earth to be transformed. Pupa with a- 
very short-detached tongue-case. _ 
- 8. cinerea. H 
Ash- ray ; fore-wings long, narrow, and entire, with five short 
oblique lines between the nervures ; hind-wings with two black- 
'sh bands ; shoulder-covers slightly edged with black above ; ab- 
domen With a narrow dorsal black line, and short alternate bands 
of black and dirty white on the sides. Expands four and a half 
‘0 five inches and a quarter. 
The specimens from which this description is taken were 
Talsed many years ago from larvee, which, at the time, i neglect- 
ed to figure and describe. ‘'T’o the best of my recollection, these 
'v® were found on-the lilac, and, with the pup, cor responded 
— hearly in form, color, and size, to those of the European S. 
