PIU.LAMPELU3 VITIS. 105 



, The expansion of the wings, in Philampelus nitis, 

 is about four inches; head, antenna?, and thorax 

 dark flesh-coloured, the latter with a broad central 

 stripe of olive-brown and a shorter one on each 

 side, the central one sometimes prolonged over the 

 vertex of the head. Anterior wings olive-brown, 

 with various flesh-coloured bars and stripes; two 

 conspicuous broad bars of the last mentioned colour 

 diverge from the base of the wing, one of them run- 

 ning along the centre, the other along the anterior 

 border, and unite with a transverse one, which com- 

 mences at the apex and terminates towards the 

 middle of the posterior margin; external margin 

 with a broad clay- coloured band. The base of the 

 under wings is bluish-ash, which colour is succeeded 

 by a broad black band, and the hinder extremity is 

 red; the anal angle black. The ground colour of 

 the abdomen is the same as that of the thorax, the 

 back with two parallel streaks of olive-brown, which 

 are intersected by a narrow band of the same colour 

 on each segment. 



The caterpillar is greenish-yellow, transversely 

 striped with reddish-brown, with a series of oblique 

 white stripes on the sides, terminating a little below 

 the spirales, which are included within the white 

 portion; head and legs reddish-brown; the anal 

 segment acutely prominent on the back, but not 

 prolonged into a horn. Its food seems to be various. 

 Abbot figures it on the Jussiea erecta, but it more 

 commonly feeds on the vine and magnolia glauca, 

 It is not a very common insect in America. 



