272 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Mr. Saunders writes me that he has found it feeding on the 

 pine, about the middle of September. "It is two Indies long, 

 the body being smooth and nearly cylindrical and thickest in 

 the middle of the body. The head is large, pointed above, flat 

 in front and green, with a yellow stripe on each side. The 

 body is bright green, with a dorsal row of dark red spots on 

 the fifth to the twelfth segments inclusive, with a bright yel- 

 low stripe on each side of the reddish spots and a lateral 

 white stripe mixed with yellow." The moth is a very small, 

 ash grey species, only expanding two inches. It frequents 

 flowers at dusk in June. 



The genus Sj^Mnx, as now limited by systematists, is much 

 larger bodied, with a long and narrow head, small eyes and 

 long and narrow wings. The head of the larva is rather 

 large, semi-oval and flattened in front. The body is C3'lin- 

 drical, smooth and obliquely banded on the side, with an 

 ai'ching, caudal horn. It transforms in a subterranean earthen 

 cell. The tongue-case of the pupa is short and free, instead 

 of being soldered to the body. Sphinx gordms Cramer is dark 

 brown, with a roseate tinge, and the thorax is blackish brown 

 above. Tlie larva feeds on the apple. 



Sphinx 'kalmiae Smith is hoaiy and rust-red, and on the hind 

 wings are a median and marginal black band. The caterpillar 

 feeds on the lilac and laurel. It is pale green, with seven 

 oblique, lateral, pale yellow bands, edged above Avith black, 

 which is again bordered with pale blue. Sphinx d^'upifercanim 

 Smith has the fore-wings blackish brown, with the discal dot 

 and outer edge of tlie wing whitish fawn-color. The larva 

 feeds on the different species of plum. The bod}' is pale green, 

 with lateral purple bands, edged beneath with white. Sjjhinx 

 chersis Hiibner (S. cinerea Harris) is the largest species we 

 have, and is pale ashen, and reddish gray beneath. The larva 

 feeds on the lilac. 



The large "potato worm" belongs to the geims 31acwsila, 

 containing our largest species of the famity ; the head is pro- 

 portionally large, and the wings are rather broad, with the 

 interior angles dilated. M. cingulata Fabr. has pinli hind 

 wings and pink spots on the abdomen. It feeds on the sweet 

 potato. M. quinque-maculata Haworth (Fig. 199, moth ; a. 



