﻿THORAX. 



ABD< 



)MEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WINGS. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



6-00 6-00 



13-50 



5-25 



21-75 



24-00 



166 CLEMENS' SYNOPSIS OF 



Measure))! en ts — a Male. 



HEAD. 

 Length. Breadth. 



3-50 ? 2-50 



60. M. Quinquemaculata. — Phlegethontius Celeus Hulmer Ex. Schmett. Lep. II., Spiling. III., Leg. 

 IV., Mand. B., Pond. 3. Sphinx Carolina Donovan, XL pi. 361. Sphinx Quinquemaculatus 

 Stephens, 1. p. 119, 2 ; Wood, pi. 53, f. 23. Sphinx Quinquemaculata Walker, p. 217. 



Head, palpi and thorax ash-gray; prothorax with three obliquely transverse black lines; tegulae with a 

 superior and short central black line; the lateral metathoracic tufts bluish in the middle, followed by a 

 large black patch on each side. Abdomen gray, with a slender black dorsal line, with four or five orange 

 yellow spots on the sides separated by black bands, having white spots above and beneath. Anterior wings 

 gray, varied with brownish in the middle and toward the tip, with oblique black lines on the inner margin 

 beneath median nervure, and three of the same hue arising about the middle of inner margin and curving 

 toward the inner angle within the sub-median, and thence continued across the nervules toward the costa; 

 a sub-terminal black and marginal white line both limited anteriorly by the disco-central nervule ; a short 

 apical black line, one in post-apical interspace hooked below, a slender recurrent one in disco-central 

 interspace, a double one in medio-superior and blackish shades in the central and posterior. Posterior 

 wings whitish, with a black spot at base, a black demi-line, two central, separated, serrated black lines, and 

 a broad brownish gray marginal band, bordered broadly above with black. Undersurface of the thorax 

 and abdomen red-ash color. 



Egg. ? 



Young Larva. ? 



Mature Larva. — Head green, with a black stripe on each side. Body very dark green, with a black 

 patch on first segment and lateral oblique greenish yellow bands each meeting a stigmatal stripe of the 

 same hue, thus forming a series of angular bands on the sides. The stigmatse are all black, except the 

 first and last, which are orange yellow. The feet and caudal horn black. Body dotted with numerous 

 yellowish green dots and marked with short black lines above the lateral bands. 



Pupation. — The larval transformation is subterranean. The pupa dark reddish brown, with a cylindrical, 

 long and much arched, detached tongue-case. 



Food-plants. — The tomato and potato plants. 



Geographical distribution. — Throughout the United States. I have seen a specimen from Fort Tacon 

 in California. 







Measurtmcnts- 



-a Male. 









HEAD. 



THORAX. 



ABDOMEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WINGS. 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. ■ 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



3-50 



4-00—2.75 



6-00 6-50 



15-00 5-00 



23-00 



24-50 



61 M. Brontes 'r— Sphinx Brontes Druri/, II. 52, pi. 29, f. 3.* Macrosila Brontes ? Walker, p. 199. 

 " The insect here described differs much from Drury's figure, and may be a distinct species. 

 Cinereous. Antennae white. Thorax margined with black, with white on the sides. Abdomen with a 



* Brontes, Drury. " The antennae are white inwardly, but brown outwardly. The eyes large and black. The 

 head and neck dark brown. Thorax and abdomen gray ; on the hind part of the former are two small black 

 spots, and on each ring two small black streaks. Anterior wings gray, with a white discal spot and a small 

 white cloud next the tips ; having several curved and indented black lines crossing them from the anterior 



