168 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



During the day the larva conceals itself beneath a leaf, stretch- 

 ing out the body on the midrib. 



1. D. choerilus Cramer, II, 91, pi. 247. Sphinx azalea Abbot & Smith.. 



Chcerocarnpa chcerilus Harris. Figured in Sm. Abb. I, pi. 27. 



Head, palpi and thorax ferruginous brown, with a spot at the 

 base of anterior wings, and tegulae behind tipped with brownish- 

 gray. The abdomen fawn color, with the hairs of the hind portions 

 of segments whitish. The anterior wings are fawn color, tinged 

 with reddish from the base to the middle ; a broad ferruginous 

 brown shade crossing the nervules, and composed of three lines 

 having between them two rows of indistinct, fawn-colored spots ; 

 marginal space grayish at the tip, and obscure purplish toward the 

 interior angle ; a ferruginous brown line across the middle of the 

 disk, and another, rather indistinct, near the base. Posterior wings 

 ferruginous, deepening to a ferruginous brown narrow border, on 

 the excavated portion of the hind margin ; fringes whitish. 



Mature Larva. Head green, with a narrow, central, brownish 

 line. Body green, deepening on the sides and whitish on the dor- 

 sal region, with six oblique, irregularly oval, lateral whitish bands ; 

 stigmata? orange; horn bluish-green. A variety is represented by 

 Abbot & Smith in which the green color is replaced by pale fer- 

 ruginous and the bands the same ; horn dark brown. (Abbot & 

 Smith.') 



Pupation. Undergoes the larval transformation in an imperfect 

 cocoon on the surface of the ground. Abbot & Smith represent 

 that in Georgia the first brood enter the pupa state about the mid- 

 dle of May and appear as perfect insects during the middle of 

 June ; another became a pupa September 1 6th and an imago on 

 April 16th following. 



Food-plants. Azalea nudiflora. (Abbot.) 



Georgia; Massachusetts; Connecticut; New York. 



Clemens. 



2. D. myron Cramer, III, 91, pi. 247. Sphinx pampinatrix Abbot & Smith, 



I. Otus cnotus Hiibn. Chcerocarnpa pampinatrix Harris. Figured 

 in Cram. pi. 247. 



Head, palpi, prothorax and tegulse dull dark green ; a whitish 

 patch at the base of anterior wings, the tegulae beneath edged with 

 whitish and a triangular whitish line on dorsum of thorax. Abdo- 



