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apparent. In Pennsylvania the first brood of larvae reach maturity about the latter part of July, and appear 

 as imago about the middle of August. There is doubtless a second brood, but I have never seen them 

 during Autumn. In Texas the first brood of perfect insects occurs from about March 10th to April, and 

 there is another about the middle of July. 



Food-plants. — Portulaca oleracea (purslane) and the turnip. I have, however, fed the larva in confinement 

 on the leaves of the apple tree. 



Geographical distribution. — Mexico, West Indies, Canada, entire United States, the western plains to 

 the Rocky Mountains and California. 









Measurements. 











HEAD. 



THOBAX. 



ABDOMEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WING, 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



93-00 



3-25—2-00 



5-50 



5-00 



12-00 



5-00 



20-00 



20-00 



? 2-50 



2.75—1-75 



4-50 



4-50 



9-75 



4-50 



16-50 



16-50 



^2-00 



2-50—1-50 



4-25 



3-25 



9-00 



4-00 



15-50 



15-50 



Mr. Walker regards the following species as the Galii of Europe. As I have never 

 seen the European representative, and as the figures of the latter are not always 

 identical, I am constrained to accept his conclusion, which I have no doubt is a 

 correct one. 



23. D. Galii.— Sphinx Epilobii Harris, Cat. 530 (1833); 2d ed. 591 (1835). D. Chamsenerii Harris, p. 

 305 ; Agassiz Lake Sup. 387, pi. 7, f. 2. D. Galii, Walker, p. 166. Deilephila intermedia Kirby, 

 IV. p. 302 ? 



Palpi beneath whitish. Head and thorax olive brown, with a white line on the sides, margined on the 

 tegulee above with blackish. Abdomen brownish olive, with small dorsal white spots, with two lateral 

 alternate white and black patches on the sides at the base, fourth segment immaculate and fifth and 

 sixth white spotted. Beneath, the thorax is testaceous and the abomen dark brownish with white lines on 

 the hind portions of the segments. Anterior wings deep olivaceous, with a buff colored band from the inner 

 margin of the base to the tip, sinuous posteriorly and irregularly indented before ; a black patch at. the 

 base and one at the origin of disco-central nervule, with an indistinct whitish discal spot. The terminal 

 margin dull brown and black, margined before ; fringes brown. Posterior wings black, with a rose colored 

 central band, deepening toward the inner margin and including a white spot ; the hind margin is indis- 

 tinctly marked with reddish and the fringes white. 



Collections of Messrs. Edward Norton, S. H. Scudder and A. J. Packard, Jr. 



Egg. ? 



Young Larva. f 



Mature Larva. — Green, somewhat bronzed, dull red beneath; with nine round cream colored spots 

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



Pupation. ? 



Food plants. — Epilobium angustifolium (great willow-herb.) 



Geographical distribution. — Europe, England, Canada, United States. 





Measurements — a Male. 







HEAD. 



THORAX. ABDOMEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WING, 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. Length. Breadth, 



Length. 



Length. 



2-00 2-50—1-50 



14-25 3-75 7-00 4-00 



1400 



1400 



