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The Modest Sphinx, Marumba modesta (Ma-rum'ba 

 mo des'ta). — It was, probably, the quiet olive tints in which 

 the moth is chiefly clothed that suggested the name modesta 

 for it, but it is one of the most beautiful of our Hawk-moths. 

 The body and basal third of the fore wings are pale olive; 

 the outer third of the fore wings is a darker shade of the 

 same color ; while the middle third is still darker (Fig. 409). 



FlG. 409 ■ — Marumba modesta. 



The hind wings are dull carmir.e-red in the middle ; there 

 is a bluish-gray patch with a curved black streak over it 

 near the anal angle. The larva feeds on poplar and cotton- 

 wood. When full grown it is three inches long, of a pale 

 green color, and coarsely granulated, the granules studded 

 with fine white points, giving the skin a frosted appearance. 

 The Twin-spotted Sphinx, Smerinthus geminatus (Sme- 

 rin'thus gem-i-na'- 

 tus). — This exquis- 

 itely colored moth 

 expands about two 

 and one half inches. 

 The thorax is gray 

 with a velvety dark 

 brown spot in the 



.... „, - Fig. 410.— Smerinthus geminatus. 



middle. I he fore 



wings are gray, with a faint rosy t ; nt in some specimen:. 



