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line and a wavy yellowish stigmatal line, sending off just above the stigmatae short curved processes. Horn 

 short, brownish and white on the sides. Abbot & Smith. 



Pupation. — Pupa reddish brown, with a detached cylindrical tongue-case that makes one turn and a half 

 and is applied to the breast. The larval transformation is subterranean. In Virginia pupation began 

 October 3d, and the imago appeared May 80th. In Georgia it began August 20th and the imago appeared 

 September 11th. Abbot & Smith. 



Food-plants. — The sweet potato. 



Geographical distribution. — Mexico, West Indies, Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Pennsylvania. 



Measurements — a, Male . 





HEAD. 



THORAX. 



ABDOMEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WING. 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



3-50 



4-25— 2-50 



6*00 6-00 



13-00 5-00 



20-00 



22-00 



59. M Carolina. Brown, Jam. 438, pi, 43, f. 17; Merian, pi. 57. Sphinx Carolina Linn. 



Mils. Lud. Ulr. 346. Drury, I. 52, pi. 25, f. 1. Fabr. Sp. Ins. II. 144, 21 ; Mant. Ins. II. 94, 24 ; 



Eat. St/st. III. 1, 363, 25 ; Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 5, 2377, 7; Abbot & Smith. I. 65, pi. 33 ; Curtis, V. 



pi. 197 ; Stephens, I. 118, 1 ; Wood. lit. Ext. pi. 53, f. 22 ; Harris, p. 249 ; Walker, p. 216. Phlege- 



thontius Carolina Hubn. Verz. Schmett, 140, 1503 ; Exot. Schmett. Lep. II., Sphing. III., Leg. III. 



Mand. B., Obs. b. 

 Head, palpi and thorax blackish gray or brownish gray ; thorax grayish on the sides, with short black 

 lines on prothorax, the middle and upper edge of tegulae ; metathoracic tufts black tipped with bluish, 

 followed by two large black patches. Abdomen blackish gray, with a double row of dorsal white spots, 

 five nearly round orange yellow spots on each side, with black bands between and intermediate white spots 

 below. Anterior wings cinereous or brownish gray, with a white spot at base ; angulated, somewhat indistinct 

 blackish lines crossing the middle of the disc to the basal portion of the inner margin ; discal dot white, 

 with parallel, rather approximated, black lines crossing the middle of the nervules, an irregular sub- 

 terminal black line and marginal whitish line ; with a black line hooked below in post-apical interspace, 

 and a short one at tip edged above with whitish and blackish shades toward the base of medio-central and 

 posterior interspaces. Posterior wings gray, with a black spot at base, an oblique black demi-line, a double 

 black central band and a broad marginal blackish gray band, having a black band in the middle and edged 

 above with black. Undersurface of thorax and abdomen gray, with a reddish brown tinge. 



Egg. f 



Young Larva. ? 



Mature Larva. — Downy, wrinkled transversely. Head and body dark green, the latter paler on the 

 dorsum, with whitish dots ; lateral oblique white bands edged above with bluish and short transverse black 

 lines. Stigmatae black, with a yellow point above and below, except the first and last, which are orange 

 yellow with a black central point, and all edged with blue. Shield and terminal prolegs edged below with 

 yellow ; caudal horn rust-colored terminally. Feet white, ringed with black. 



Pupation. — The larval transformation takes place in a subterranean cell. The pupa is dark reddish 

 brown, with a detached cylindrical rather thick tongue-case, not as much arched nor as long as that of 

 b-maculata . 



Food-plants. — The tobacco and tomato plants. 



Geographical distribution. — South America, Mexico, West Indies, and generally throughout the United 

 States. 



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