SPHINX GORDIUS 



GENUS, SPHINX. 



SPECIES, GOR'Dius (the king who tied the Gordian knot). 



This is a very variable species as far as the caterpillars 

 are concerned, and any one finding the deep wine-col- 

 ored form on low whortleberry- and blueberry-bushes 

 would hardly recognize it as perhaps of the same 

 brood with the bright green form on the neighboring 

 sweet-fern. 



One of Us found eggs on bayberry — green, ovoid 

 eggs, which hatched three days later. The head of 

 the little caterpillar was large and round. Its body 

 was very light green without marks, and its caudal 

 ho]-n was black, erect, and short, brown at base in 

 front and behind, and light at the sides. The body 

 was covered with short setie, which were more notice- 

 able on the anal shield than elsewhere. The segments 

 were transversely striated, and the head and anal 

 shield were of lighter color than the body. Three 

 days later the head and thoracic segments were yel- 

 low-green, the abdominal segments, to the tenth, were 

 l)hie-green, and the rest of the body was of a yellow- 

 green, lighter than that of the head and thoracic seg- 

 ments. A dark dorsal line and lateral lines appeared, 

 and the dorsum had a mottled look. The little cater- 



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