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high. The name pliilampelus (lover of the vine) is very 

 appropriate, and was given to one group of these moths 

 by the late Dr. Harris. There is a large number of 

 native species, all with similar habits. They may be 

 poisoned by dusting the leaves with insecticides, but the 

 better way is to pick them from the plants and crush 

 them with the foot, or otherwise. The following are 

 some of the most common and destructive of these 

 SpMngidcB. 



The Satellite Sphinx (Philampelus Satellitia, 

 Linn). The moth is of the size shown in Fig. 85, and 



FIG. 86. 



is of a light olive gray, variegated with dark olive green. 

 The smooth, naked caterpillars, when first hatched, are 

 of a green color, with a tinge of pink along the sides, 

 with a long, straight pink horn at the tail. This horn 

 soon begins to shorten, and by the third moult it entirely 

 disappears, leaving only a small, eye-like spot on the last 

 segment of the body . The color of these caterpillars is 

 somewhat variable, but usually greenish or velvety 

 brown, with lighter markings along the sides, as shown 

 in Fig. 86. When these caterpillars have attained their 

 full size and are about to transform, they descend to the 



ground and into it a few 

 inches, where they shed 

 their skin and change to 

 a chrysalis of a deep 

 FIG. ST. chestnut brown color, and 



of the form shown in Fig. 87. These chrysalides are 

 often plowed up while working in the vineyard late in 

 fall or early spring. 



