﻿NORTH AMERICAN SPHINGID^. 183 



side ; the body yellowish green, lateral bands and caudal horn yellow, with a subdorsal and double stigmatal 

 row of crimson spots. 



Pupation. — The larva enters the ground to transform; the pupa is chestnut brown, smooth, with a short, 

 obtuse, terminal spine. 



Food-plants. — The leaves of the apple tree and those of the Rosa Carolina. 



Geographical distribution. — Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Georgia. 



Measurements — a Male. 





HEAD. 



THORAX. 



ABDOMEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WING- 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



2-25 



2-50—1-50 



4-00 4-50 



9-50 4-00 



15-00 



16-00 



§§ Costa of superior wings rounded and entire from the base to the tip, which is rounded. 



■j" Fore wings denticulated on hind margin, with that opposite disco-central nearly obsolete. 



86. S. modesta Harris, Amer. Jour. Sci. 36, 292 ; Lake Superior, &c, 388, pi. 7, f. 7. 



Palpi, head, thorax and abdomen olivaceous. Anterior wings from the base to nearly the hind end of 

 the disc very pale olivaceous, with an indistinct, irregular, darker streak across the middle, and margined 

 towards the base of the wing with a still paler hue ; a broad, deep, olivaceous, median band, undulating 

 anteriorly and crenated or undulating posteriorly, containing a pale, angular, discal spot and darkest 

 towards the base of the wing; a deep, olivaceous band across the middle of the nervules crenated pos- 

 teriorly and bordered with a paler hue ; the remainder of the wing is deep olivaceous with a paler band 

 from the middle to the inner angle. Posterior wings purplish red in the middle, with a transverse, black 

 spot above inner angle and a blackish, olivaceous patch beneath it ; in the male the wing is olivaceous 

 exteriorly and along terminal border. 



From the collections of Messrs. S. H. Scudder, W. H. Edwards and Arthur Schott of Georgetown, D. C. 



Egg. ? 



Young Larva. ? 



Mature Larva. ■ ? 



Pupation. — Mr. Ashton, of N. Y., has taken the perfect insect in July. 



Food-plants. — Mr. Crist, of Nazareth, Northampton Co., Pa., informed me he found a larva of this insect 

 several years ago on the Lombardy poplar. 



Geographical distribution. — Massachusetts, Lake Superior, Pennsylvania, Sonora, Mex., New York. 



Measurements — a Male. 



E 



[EAD. 



THORAX. 



ABDOMEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WINGS. 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



2-00 



?200 



4-00 5-00 



1200 



17-00 



23-00 



W The hind margin of fore wings angulated and excavated. 



Articles of the antennae with single short pectinations in % , simple in the 9 . 



87. S. GEMINATUS. — Sphinx geminata Say, I. pi. 12, f. 1, 2. Smerinthus geminata Harris, 291, 4. 



Sphinx ocellatus Jamaicensis Drury, II. p. 43, pi. 25, f. 2, 3. Smerinthus Cerisii Kirby, IV. 301, 



pl.4,f.4. 



Palpi reddish brown ; head thorax in front and tegulae whitish or pale gray, with a large, thoracic, 



dorsal, deep chestnut, semi-oval patch. Abdomen brownish gray. Anterior wings gray, tinged with rosy 



and with dark brown streaks and patches; two curved, brownish, basal lines bordered with rosy gray; the 



