244 BEUTENMULLER, MONOGRAPH OF THE SESIID^E. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Abdomen brown or banded with yellow. 



Fore wings brown syringes. 



Fore wings ochreous fraxini. 



Podosesia syringae (Harris). 



Plate XXX, Fig. 14, Female, and Plate XXXIII, Fig. 10, Female, variety. 



sEgeria syringa Harris, Am. Journ. Arts and Sciences, Vol. XXXVI, 1838, p. 311 ; Walker, Cat. 



Lepid. Brit. Mus. Pt. VIII, 1856, p. 41 ; Osborn, Trans. Iowa Hort. Soc. 1878 ; 



Thomas, 2d Rep. Nox. Ins. 111. 1877 (1878), p. 174 ; Martin, Thomas's 5th Rep. Nox. 



Ins. 111. 1880 (1881), p. 109 ; French, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 106 ; Osborn, Iowa State 



Leader, Nov. 1882. 

 Trochilium syringce Morris, Synop. Lepid. N. Am. 1862, p. 139 ; Riley, Insect Life, Vol. VI, 



1894, p. 206. 

 Sciapteron syringcx Hv. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. I, 1881, p. 184; Packard, Ins. Inj. Forest and 



Shade Trees, Bull. No. 7 U. S. Ent. Com. 1881, p. 261. 

 Sesia syringes Boisduval, Suites a Buffon, Nat. Hist. Lepid. Het. I, 1874, p. 437 ; Hulst, Bull. 



Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Vol. V, 1882, p. 17, figs. ; Lugger, 2nd Rep. Ent. Agricul. Exp. St. 



Minn. 1896, p. ^8. 

 Grotea longipes Moschler, Ent. Zeit. Stettin, Vol. XXXVII, 1876, p. 312. 

 Podosesia syringce Moschler, Ent. Zeit. Stettin, Vol. XL, 1879, p. 246 ; Hy. Edwards, Papilio, 



Vol. II, 1882, p. 53 ; Grote, New Check List N. Am. Moths, 1882, p. 12 ; Beutenmuller,' 



Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sc. Vol V, 1890, p. 204; Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, p. 



125 ; ibid. Vol. IX, 1897, p. 219 ; Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J. 1890, p. 289 ; Packard, 5th 



Rep. U. S. Ent. Com. 1890, p. 542 ; Kellicott, Can. Ent. Vol. XXIII, t8 9 i, p. 250 ; 



ibid Vol. XXIV, 1892, p. 24 ; Journ. Columb. Hort. Soc. 1891, p. 61 ; Osborn, Iowa Ins. 



l8 93, P- 7 (Rep. Iowa Agricul. Soc. 1892) ; Webster, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Vol. V, 1896 



p. 72. 



Trochilium denudatum Osborn, Trans. Iowa Hist. Soc. Vol. XV, 1880 (1881), pp. 107-110; Coll. 

 Quarterly, Vol. II, 1879, P- 10 ; ibid. Vol. Ill, 1880, 14-33 J West Stock Journ. and Farm, 

 Aug. 1888 ; (in error). 



Male.— Head black, palpi chestnut red, black beneath. Collar edged with chestnut in front. 

 Antennae rufous, black above. Thorax deep brown more or less marked with bright chestnut red. 

 Abdomen black, or marked with chestnut brown, sometimes with a small yellow spot on each side 

 of the fourth segment, or with the segments banded with yellow. Femora black, anterior pair of 

 tibiae orange, tarsi yellow ; middle and hind tibiae black with an orange band. Tarsi yellow hind 

 pair with a black band above. Fore wings opaque, deep brown, with a violaceous lustre, usually 

 with a rusty red dash at the outer part of the wing below the costa. At the base is a short trans- 

 parent streak, and marked with red on the costa and inner margin. Underside washed with orange 

 and yellow. Hind wings transparent, yellowish, with an opalescent lustre, veins, discal mark, and 

 margin deep brown, sometimes tinged with red ; underside marked with red. 



Female— Similar to the male, but more robust and larger. 



Expanse : Male, 25-30 mm.; female, 30-36 mm. 



Habitat- -New England and Middle States westward to Colorado and southward to Texas. 



Type : One female. Coll. T. W. Harris, Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 



Larval Normal (S. exitiosa). Head dark brown ; anal segment broadly luteous. Resem- 

 bles Sesia pictipes almost to identity." — (Dyar, MS.) 



