388 LAKE SUPERIOR. 



above the eyes on the sides of the thorax, where it is margined 

 above with black. Palpi white below. Forewings with a black 

 spot at base and another adjacent to a white dash within the middle 

 of the outer edge ; a flexuous buff-colored stripe, beginning near the 

 base of the inner margin, indented externally, extends to the tip, and 

 is bounded within by a dark brown tapering stripe. Hindwings 

 blackish, or dusky brown, with a broad sinuous rosy band including 

 a deep red spot, and uniting with a white one near the inner angle. 

 Fringes of the hindwings, and inner edge of the forewings white. 

 Abdomen with a dorsal series of six white dots ; two black and two al- 

 ternating white bands on each side of the base, and two narrow trans- 

 verse white lines near the tip ; ventral segments edged with white. 

 Legs brown ; the tibiae edged externally with white. 



This species, which occurs abundantly in New Hampshire, was 

 taken on the northern shore of Lake Superior, and is now figured 

 for the first time. It is the American representative of Deilephila 

 Grain. Mr. Kirby's B. intermedia^ which has the stripe on the 

 forewings of a pale rose-color, and wants the dorsal series of white 

 dots, may possibly be a local variety of D. Chamcenerii. The larva 

 of our species lives on the Epilohiiim angustifolium. It is bronzed 

 green above, and red beneath, with nine round cream-colored spots, 

 encircled with black on each side, and a red caudal horn. 



Smerinthtjs modesta H." 

 PI. VIL, fig. 7. 



Smerintlms modesta Harris, Catalogue of North American Sphin- 

 ges. Amer. Journ. Science, vol. 36., p. 292 (1839). 



Olivaceo-ochracea ; capite parvo non cristato, masculorum anten- 

 nis subtus transverse bicUiatis ; ahs primoribus crenatis, striga 

 flexuosa transversa basali virguloque stigmaticali pallidis, fascia lata 

 undulata media, strigisque duabus crenatis posterioribus, saturate 

 olivaceis ; secundariis medio basique purpureis, macula transversa 

 nigra fascirique abbreviata fusca prope angulum analem sitis. 



Alar. exp. 5 unc. 



