FAMILY SPHINGID.-E. 219 



Sphinx ? (Plate xlv, fig. 9.) 



Forewings subfalcate, and sinuate upon the anal margin. Color of body and wings buff of 

 various shades. Antennse strongly and doubly pectinated. Forewings banded ; inner 

 margin marked with a quadrate brown spot. Beneath banded ; middle of the hind- 

 wing marked transversely with a light ferruginous band. 

 This species 1 obtained at Williamstown (Massachusetts). It is closely allied to the 

 Philampehts in the form of the forewing : the abdomen, however, is terminated by a short 

 brush as representee! in the figure. I have been unable to refer it to a described species. 



Sphinx cinerea. 

 Wings greatly elongated and narrow. Color gray, and the forewings dashed with black 

 lines : there is a black spot at the base. Hind wings gray, and banded with black ; the 

 bands are broad, transverse, and towards the outer margin. Margin of the abdomen 

 marked with alternate bands of black and white : abdomen more pointed than in the 

 b-maculatus. Back gray, without spots, but marked with a longitudinal line along the 

 middle. 



Sphinx qtjinquemaculatus. 

 Forewings gray : area of the disc darker than the margin. Hindwings gray, and marked 

 with four black zigzag lines, the outer broadest ; the next is a zigzag line : the basal 

 is scarcely more than a spot. Abdomen broad at the base, upon which there are black 

 and white bands : margins ornamented with four or five yellow spots, alternating 

 with black bands and square spots. Expanse of wing, 3 - 3£ inches. 

 The pupa-case is brown, and furnished with a long curved handle which encloses the 

 tongue. This is the common potato-moth, the larva cf which descends into the earth to 

 transform, where it forms a rounded smooth chamber with its sides. The larva is green, 

 and marked with oblique whitish stripes upon the body : it is also furnished with a horn 

 placed posteriorly. 



Philampelus satellitia. (Plate xlv, fig. 5.) 



Color above light, and marked with spots of dark olive. Head light olive, with two spots 

 of light olive on the front of the thorax ; below which is a large angular spot of dark 

 olive, which extends to the base of the forewing, and forms an abbreviated band. 

 Back of the thorax there is a transverse band, which connects itself with a dark hairy 

 olive spot upon the base of the hindwings. The basal half of the margin of the fore- 

 wings light olive, clouded, and extending itself to near the posterior margin, where 

 it meets a darker submarginal band, the latter extending to the apex, and Landed 



