﻿178 CLEMENS' SYNOPSIS OF 



DOLBA Walker. 



Size moderate or small. The body is stout, and rather short. The head rather 

 small, but free and moderately prominent; the front broad, vertical, rounded and 

 obtuse ; the eyes quite small and scarcely salient ; the palpi nearly horizontal and 

 equal to the front ; the tongue somewhat longer than the body ; the antennas rather 

 slender, with a short hook and seta, and about as long as the thorax. The thorax 

 but little advanced anterior to the base of fore wings, tapering but little to the head 

 and rounded in front. The abdomen rather conical, and about twice the length of the 

 thorax. The length of the anterior wings rather more than that of the body, some- 

 what more than twice longer than broad, the tip rounded, the hind margin entire and 

 oblique, somewhat prominent in the middle and slightly concave above the inner 

 angle ; inner margin slightly concave. Posterior wings obtusely rounded at the tip, 

 hind margin entire and somewhat concave before the inner angle. 



80. D. HyLjEUS.— Sphinx Hylseus Drury, II. 45, pi. 25, f. 3 ; Cramer, II. 16, pi. 107, f. C.; Fair. Sp. 

 Ins. II. 149, 45 ; Mont. Ins. II. 97, 49 ; Ent. Syst. III. 1, 373, 53 j Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 5, 2383, 81 ; 

 Harris, p. 296, 8. Sphinx Prini Abbot & Smith, I. 69, pi. 35. Hyloicus Hylaeus Hubner, Verz. 

 Schmett. 139, 1487- Dolba Hylseus Walker, p. 230. Hyloicus Dynseus Hubner, Zutr. f. 463-4 ? 



Palpi white beneath. Head and thorax brownish ferruginous, and whitish on the sides, with two white 

 dots on the disc of thorax and two black metathoracic spots. Abdomen brownish ferruginous, with a row 

 of dorsal brown spots and a double row of white spots, and with lateral alternate black and narrow white 

 demi-bands. Anterior wings dull ferruginous, or dark brownish varied with white and blackish ; a white 

 spot at the base, with a blackish band, white margined towards the base, crossing the middle of the disc ; 

 discal spot white and black margined, a band of blackish lines crossing the middle of the nervules, margined 

 posteriorly broadly with whitish, and black circlets on the posterior ends of median nervules ; apical 

 line black, white margined toward costa. Posterior wings whitish, with an indistinctly double, median 

 blackish band, joined near inner margin by a blackish patch from the base and a broad terminal dark brown 

 band edged above with blackish. Sometimes the wing is blackish brown, with a central white line and a 

 fainter one above it, with white at the base. 



Collections of Messrs. W. H. Edwards and Edward Norton. 



Egg. ? 



Young Larva. ? 



Mature Larva. — Head green, with a pale blue line on each side. Body pea green, with lateral oblique 

 pink bands edged below with white ; caudal horn crimson. Abbot & Smith. 



Pupation. — Pupa reddish brown ; tongue-case not apparent. Pupation began May 17th, and the imago 

 appeared June 19th. Another entered the pupa state August 25th, and appeared April 26th, in Georgia. 

 Abbot & Smith. 



Food-plants. — Frinos glaber, Winterberry. 



Geographical distribution. — Mexico, Georgia, Massachusetts, Connecticut- 



CERATOMIA Harris. 

 Size large. Body usually thick and long. The head small, nearly sessile, and 

 somewhat depressed; front broad and almost vertical, pilose or sub-tufted; the eyes 



