ITS LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



dian patch on the inner margin, a patch above the inner angle 

 divided toward its apex by the medio-posterior nervule and a large 

 sub-apical patch, ferruginous brown ; from the sub-median patch 

 two faint brown lines are thrown off posteriorly to the costa, the 

 most exterior being angulated on the medio-central vein, and from 

 its anterior portion are two other diverging brownish lines, with a 

 faint line above them near the base of the wing; the disco-median 

 shade is rather faint and brownish. The posterior wings are pink, 

 deep'ening in intensity toward the middle of inner margin, and 

 above the interior angle is a reddish-brown streak ; a subterminal 

 row of ferruginous brown spots from the middle to" the interior angle, 

 and a broad dusky terminal band. The under surface of the wings 

 is roseate. 



Young Larva. Green, with yellow lateral stripes edged with 

 black, and a long, recurved, slender reddish horn. 



Mature Larva. Head reddish-brown. Body pale reddish- 

 brown on the dorsum, with a darker vascular line, and pale-reddish 

 subdorsal line on each side, and the general color deepened late- 

 Vally. Six lateral, short, irregularly-oval white patches bordered 

 with black, containing the stigmatse. The anterior rings are dot- 

 ted with blackish. The lenticular tubercle is black, and contained 

 in a brown patch edged with adjacent black and white lines. 



Food-plants. The grape. 



New York; Pennsylvania. 



CLEMENS. 



3. P. typhon King, Neue Schmett. pi. 3, f. 1. 



Cinereous, reddish beneath. Palpi red. Thorax with two dark- 

 brown abbreviated stripes. Abdomen with dark-brown bands, red 

 on the sides. Anterior wings glaucescent and testaceous mixed, 

 with several blackish-brown sub-trigonate patches. Posterior 

 wings red, with a denticulated black band varied with glaucescent, 

 with the exterior margin brown, and the cilia white. 



Closely allied to P. achemon. 



Mexico. 



CLEMENS. 



4. P. labruscae. Madam Merian, Ins. Sur. pi. 34. 



Green, testaceous beneath. The abdomen sometimes, and rarely 

 the whole body and anterior wings, testaceous. Abdomen with a 



