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Sphinx ? ( Plate xlv, fig. 9.) 



Torewings subfalcate, and sinuate upon the anal margin. Color of body and wings buif of 

 various shades. Antennae strongly and doubly pectinated, Forewings banded ; inner 

 margin marked with a quadrate brown spot. Beneath banded ; middle of the hind- 

 wing marked transversely with a light ferruginous band. 

 This species I obtained at Williamstown ( Massachusetts). It is closely allied to the 

 Philampelus in the form of the forewing : the abdomen, however, is terminated by a short 

 brush as represented in the figure. I have been unable to refer it to a described species. 



Sphinx cinerea. 

 Wings greatly elongated and narrow. Color gray, and the forewings dashed with black 

 lines : there is a black spot at the base. Hind wings gray, and banded with black ; the 

 bands are broad, transverse, and towards the outer margin. Margin of the abdomen 

 marked with alternate bands of black and white : abdomen more pointed than in the 

 b-maculatus. Back gray, without spots, but marked with a longitudinal line along the 

 middle. 



Sphinx quinquemaculatus. 

 Forewings gray : area of the disc darker than the margin. Hindwings gray, and marked 

 with four black zigzag lines, the outer broadest ; the next is a zigzag line : the basal 

 is scarcely more than a spot. Abdomen broad at the base, upcn Avhich there are black 

 and white bands : margins ornamented with four or five yellow spots, alternating 

 with black bands and square spots. Expanse of wing, 3-3^ inches. 

 The pupa-case is brown, and furnished with a long curved handle which encloses the 

 tongue. This is the common potato-moth, the larva of which descends into the earth to 

 transform, where it forms a rounded smooth chamber with its sides. The larva is green, 

 and marked with oblique whitish stripes upon the body ; it is also furnished with a horn 

 placed posteriorly. 



Philampelus satellitia, ( Plate xlv, fig. 5.) 



Color above light, and marked with spots of dark olive. Head light olive, with two spots 

 of light olive on the front of the thorax ; below which is a large angular spot of dark 

 olive, which extends to the base of the forewing, and forms an abbreviated band. 

 Back of the thorax there is a transverse band, which connects itself with a dark hairy 

 olive spot upon the base of the hindwings. The basal half of the margin of the fore- 

 wings light olive, clouded, and extending itself to near the posterior margin, where 

 it meets a dai-ker submarginal band, the latter extending to the apex, and banded 



