102 SPHINX CHIONANTHI. 



bounded by these white portions, bears a small 

 round white spot in the centre, and there is a 

 waved white streak at the apex of the wing ; the 

 whole of the white parts are waved and clouded 

 with light brown. The hinder wings are almost 

 wholly brown, excepting the base and a few marks 

 near the anal angle which are white ; fringe of all 

 the wings brown and white alternately. The head 

 and thorax aro variously marked with white, the 

 latter with two small round white spots anteriorly, 

 and a large posterior patch bearing a very faint 

 resemblance to a death's-head ; three anterior seg- 

 ments of the abdomen with a large yellow round 

 spot on each side. 



The caterpillar (Plate VI. fig. 2) is yellowish 

 green, the latter hue prevailing on the under side, 

 and the former on the back and sides. There is a 

 series of oblique stripes along the sides of the seg- 

 ments, consisting of a streak of white, purple, and 

 faint blue. These are wanting in the three segments 

 behind the head, which have two dorsal rows of 

 reddish tubercles ; tail yellow, granular. " It feeds," 

 says Abbot, " on the fringe-tree (Chionanthus Vir- 

 ginica), called old-man's-beard from its clusters of 

 white blossoms, and also on the privet and lilac. 

 I procured several in Virginia upon the last men- 

 tioned shrub, which went into the ground July 31st, 

 but every one of them died in the chrysalis during 

 winter. After I had been several years in Georgia, 

 I found some on the old-man's-beard in June, which 

 buried themselves on the 22nd of that month, and 



