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costa and outer portion from near the middle, chocolate brown, and one or two short bluish lines above the 

 tip and a dull yellow spot upon it ; ocellus black, with a large pale blue pupil. 



Egg. ? 



Young Laita. ? 



Mature Larva. — From Abbot & Smith's figure; head bluish green, with a bright yellow line on the sides. 

 Body bluish green with a row of sub-dorsal and stigmatal reddish brown spots ; six oblique lateral bright 

 yellow bands, with two thoracic sub-dorsal yellow (?) lines ; caudal horn yellow on the sides. 



Pupation. — The larva enters the earth to transform. In the Southern States the first brood enters the 

 pupa state about the middle of June, and becomes imago early in July ; pupation begins with the second 

 during the latter part of October, and they appear as perfect insects during the following spring. The 

 pupa is smooth, abdomen cylindrico-conical and acute; color deep brown. (Abbot & Smith.') 



Food-plants. — The leaves of the wild cherry. 



Geographical distribution. 



Measurements — a Female. 



HEAD. THORAX. ABDOMEN. BODY. ANT. WING. 



Length. Breadth. Length. Breadth. Length. Breadth. Length. Length. 



2-00 2-50— 1-75 8-50 4-00 7-00 3-00 12-00 13-00. 



j"}- Fore wings denticulated on hind margin, with a denticulation opposite disco-central nearly obsolete. 



85. S. excecattjs. — Sphinx excaecata Abbot & Smith, I. 49, pi. 25. Smerinthus excaecata Harris, 290 1. 

 Paonias excgecatus Hubner, Verz. Schmeit. 142, 1521 ; Zutr. f. 835, 6. % . 



Palpi, head and thorax fawn-color, with a roseate tinge, with a chestnut-colored thoracic dorsal stripe 

 tapering to the head and meta thoracic transverse patch of the same hue. Abdomen fawn-color with a dark 

 brown dorsal line. Anterior wings fawn-color, with dark brown shades, with a small blackish spot at the 

 middle of base and two brown lines crossing the basal portion of the disc ; a large, median, brown patch 

 with its anterior margin darkest and inclined towards the inner angle, and the posterior margin concave 

 in the middle, tinged with purplish towards the center, containing a brown diseal dot, and joined at an 

 acute angle by a patch of the same hue about the middle of the submedian nervure; two or three brown 

 lines crossing the middle of the nervules and following the outline of median patch, succeeded by an 

 irregular brownish band ; the marginal space brown ; a small brown spot at inner angle, with two or three 

 black spots above it in sub-median sulcus, with faint blackish streaks in the post apical, subcostal and costo- 

 inferior and medio-superior interspaces. Posterior wings rose-color in the middle, with a brownish patch 

 at the tip crossed by two or three short whitish lines ; ocellus black, pupil pale blue, with two short whitish 

 lines between the ocellus and the inner margin. 



Var. A male. Brownish olivaceous. Thoracic streak dark brown. The median shade of the fore 

 wings brownish olivaceous with a purplish tinge, and a deep brown streak at the base of posterior interspace ; 

 diseal spot blackish. 



Egg. — Spheroids much flattened above and beneath, almost like narrow sections of a cylinder; smooth, 

 white, with an equatorial, reddish brown band, having a slender, central, white line. Investing tunics 

 thick and resisting. 



Young Larva, on first emerging from the egg is green, without granulations, and oblique, lateral 

 stripes ; a long reddish caudal horn ; without thoracic subdorsal lines. 



Mature Larva. — I regret I have no description of the mature larva. The following is that of Harris : 

 Apple green, with two short, pale lines before, seven oblique, yellowish white lines on each side and a 

 bluish caudal horn. According to Abbot & Smith's figure, the head is green with a crimson line on each 



