220 ORDER LEPIDOPTERA. 



inwardly by wavy lines of olive and lU ish-color : outer half olive, Imt marked with 

 transverse abbreviated lines of darker. Apical area has a patcb of flesh-color, but 

 branched so as to include a <-"Mal spol of olive : posterior margin olive, and the >>li\e 

 marked with wavy hands. Hindwings marked with a row of submarginal olive spots. 

 The conspicuous dark olive spot near the bodj has been noticed : their are also al- 

 ternating abbreviated transverse lines of olive and flesh-color near the inner margin. 

 Beneath buff or fuscous, traversed bj narrow hands or lines : posterior margin darker. 

 Expanse of wing about four indies. 

 This is n<>t an uncommon species in New-York and Western Massachusetts. The larva? 



feed upn the grapevine, and hence Dr. Harris has given the generic name Philatnpdvt, 



'1 love the vine." Tiny also feed upon the Ampelopsis. 

 The larva may be known by the recurved slender horn of the back when immature. 



but which is lost at the last moulting, leaving a smooth eyelike spot. Color pale green : 



sides marked with oval cream-colored spots. The head is retractile, which makes the insect 



appear shortened and blunt before. 



When mature, the insects are three baches in length : they are great feeders, and, when 



in numbers, injure vines in proportion to the leaves consumed. 



Pbilamfelus (Harris). Sphinx pampinatrixl (Plate xliv, fig. 2.) 



Color olive. Head olive, from which proceeds divaricating hands along the angles of the 

 thorax, lighter between the forks. Antenna- light buff. Forewings banded : at the 

 base olive, marked with a costal spot of flesh-color : middle land broad and flesh- 

 color, with a dot of olive : external hand olive, wide, suhbanded or marked with a 

 stripe of flesh; edge brownish. Hindwings flesh-colored, with an olive spot or im- 

 perfect hand opdn the anal angle. Beneath, buff : basal part of the forewings 

 slightly ferruginous ; the apical area huff; margin light olive. Hindwings, base light 

 huff; outer half darker huff, marked with a wavy line parallel to the edge; i 

 lighter. Body beneath buff : thorax colored like the base of the hindwings, and the 

 abdomen like the outer half, without spots. 

 Supposed to be a female. The general appearance is much like the satellitia, but smaller. 



Obtained in the early part of August, but does not appeal to be common. Its larva not 



observed. Expanse"!' wing, -2\ inches. 



Gj bus SMERINTH1 - 

 »s angulated, entin Antennae bieiliated inthemales 



