﻿NORTH AMERICAN SPHINGID^E. 173 





Measurements — a Male. 







HEAD. 



THORAX. ABDOMEN. 



BOBY. 



ANT. WING, 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



1-50 2-75-1-50 



3-25 3-50 8-00 3-50 



13-00 



1500 



70. S. gordius. — Cramer, III. 91, pi. 247, f. B; Harris, p. 295, 6. Lethia Gordius Hilbner Verz. 

 Schmett. 141, 1512. 



Head and disc of the thorax blackish brown or black and reddish gray on the sides. Abdomen dark 

 gray, with a dorsal black line and alternate black and grayish demi-bands. Anterior wings blackish gray, 

 with a roseate hue; discal spot conspicuous and white, a discal black line bifid toward the discal spot, with the 

 usual lines and streaks in interspaces and sub-median sulcus, black ; a blackish brown marginal shade, 

 with pale grayish on the portion of the wing above it, at the base and the tip of the wing. Fringes dark 

 brown spotted with white. Posterior wings gray, with a black median band, and a broad, black marginal 

 band ; the fringes white. 



From the collections of Messrs. Edward Norton, A. J. Packard and S. H. Scudder. 



Egg. ? 



Young Larva. ? 



Mature Larva. — Apple green, with seven oblique white lateral bands, slightly edged above with violet, 

 a rusted caudal horn, and a brownish line on each side of head. (Hams.) There is almost too much 

 resemblance in this description to the larva of drupiferarum. 



Pupation. — The larval transformation is subterranean ; pupa with a very short detached tongue-case. 

 Harris. 



Food-plants. — The larva feeds on the leaves of the apple tree. Harris. 



Geographical distribution. — Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut. 



Measurements — a Male. 



HEAD. 



THORAX. 



ABDOMEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WING, 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



2-00 2-50—1.75 



4-00 4-00 



8-50 4-00 



14-50 



17-50 



71. S. JASMINEARUM Le Conte, Sr., Wilson, Treat. Ent. in Ency. Brit. pi. 236, f. 5, 6. 



Palpi gray-brownish on the sides. Head and thorax pale gray, with a transverse black line on prothorax 

 extended to the middle of tegulse, with a black dash in the middle of the disk and metathoracic black 

 streaks on each side of median line. Abdomen dull gray, with a black stripe on each side containing 

 whitish spots. Anterior wings gray, with blackish brown markings ; a blackish streak at the base of inner 

 margin, with two brownish lines from the disc to its lower end ; two blackish brown oblique lines or a broad 

 oblique streak from the costa to the disc at the origin of median nervules ; discal spot white, with a brownish 

 discolored patch just posterior to it, extending from costa at the origin of sub-costo inferior nervule to 

 medio-posterior interspace, where it becomes a black spot, and continued thence to inner margin as two 

 brownish lines ; two doubly curved lines of connected spots crossing the middle of the nervules from near 

 the origin of post-apical to the lower third of the.inner margin, with an irregular brownish line near the 

 terminal margin ; a long, decided black streak in medio-central interspace, with a blackish spot on the 

 terminal margin of the medio-central nervule. Posterior wings nearly uniform blackish brown, with a faint 

 grayish central band and a grayish patch above the interior angle. 



From collection of Messrs. W. H. Edwards and Mr. Ridings, of Philadelphia. 



Egg. ? 



Young Larva. ? 



Mature Larva. ? 



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