290 Catalogue of North American Sphinges. 



ORDER LEPIDOPTERA. L. 



SPHINGES. L. 



Crepuscularia. Latr. Closteroceres. Dumeril. Heteroceres. 

 Boisduval. (Part.) 



Tribe I. SPHINGES LEGITIME. L. 



Family I. SPHINGIAD^. H. The SpMngians. 



<§. Alis angulatis. L. 



Genus I. Smerinthus. Latr. 



* AntenncB transversely hiciliated beneath in the males. 



1. S. exccecata. Smith-Abbot. 



Fawn-colored ; fore-wings deeply scalloped and toothed on the 

 outer edge, clouded and banded with brown ; hind- wings rose- 

 colored in the middle, with a large round eye-like black spot, 

 having a pale blue centre, near the anal angle ; fringes narrow, 

 white ; thorax with a central lance-shaped chestnut-colored spot, 

 the point of which extends upon the head. Expands two and a 

 half to three inches and a half Larva granulated, apple-green, 

 with two short pale lines before, seven oblique yellowish white 

 lines on each side, and a bluish caudal horn. It feeds upon the 

 leaves of the apple-tree, and upon those of Rosa Carolina also, 

 according to Abbot^ who (in his Insects of Georgia, p. 49, pi. 25,) 

 has represented a variety of the larva of a yellow color, and green- 

 ish at the sides, which are obliquely banded with yellow, and 

 have two longitudinal rows of rust-red spots upon them. It en- 

 ters the earth to undergo its transformations. Pupa chestnut- 

 brown, with a short obtuse anal spine. 



2. /S*. Astylus. Drury. = integerrima. H. Catalogue Ins. 

 Mass.* 



Cinnamon-colored ; fore-wings angulated but entire, tinged 

 with rosy white at base, with whitish wavy bands near the tip, a 

 bluish mark along the inner margin, and a tawn^r yellow spot on 

 each outer angle ; hind- wings tawny yellow at base, with a 

 round black eye-like spot, having a pale blue centre, near the anal 

 angle ; middle of the thorax cinnamon-red, shoulder-covers paler 



* Catalogue of the Insects of Massachusetts, by T. W. Harris ; appended to 

 Prof. Hitchcock's Report on the Geology, &c. of Massachusetts. 



