H2 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



dark brown and yellowish lines, extending from near the base and 

 middle of inner margin to the tip, with a straight, brownish, sub- 

 marginal line. Posterior wings black, with a row of subterminal 

 yellow spots. 



Mature Larva. Light green, with a large, subdorsal, crimson 

 ocellus on the fourth segment, containing a blue ring and edged 

 with black and white rings, with six others smaller and similar, 

 placed on a white subdorsal line, which begins on the second seg- 

 ment and extends to the crimson caudal horn. The dorsum is 

 dashed with brown points ; stigmata yellow dotted with black 

 points above' and below. {Abbot & Smithy 



S. America ; Mexico ; W. Indies ; Southern States ; Illinois ; 



Ohio ; Texas. 



Clemens. 



2. C. chiron Drury, I, 50, pi. 26. Sphinx nechus Cramer. Theretra nechus 

 Hiibner. 



Green, sometimes ferruginous fawn-color ; a line on the sides of 

 head and thorax and body beneath whitish testaceous. Fore wings 

 dark green ; with a pale yellow streak at the base of the inner 

 margin, and an irregular, oblique brown, or testaceous band tra- 

 versing the lower part of the nervules, enlarging toward the inner 

 margin and extended above on it as a line. Posterior wings black, 

 with a band of pale yellow spots. Abdomen green, slightly gilded 

 on the sides, with a double row of black dorsal dots. Legs very 

 long. 



S. America ; Mexico ; West Indies. 



Clemens. 



§§ Fore wings very acute and somewhat hooked. 



3. C. falco Walker, p. 132. 



Fawn-colored, whitish testaceous beneath. Head and thorax 

 with a whitish stripe along each side. Disk of the thorax cinere- 

 ous brown. Abdomen brown, with a fawn-colored stripe along 

 each side, and a double dorsal whitish line. Fore wings with 

 blackish speckles, with a blackish discal dot and with several black- 

 ish, slightly oblique, posterior lines, slightly hooked and more 

 acute at the tips than in the other species of this genus. Hind 

 wings with two blackish stripes ; exterior border slightly emargin- 

 ate. Length of the body 15 — 19 lines ; of the wings 30 — 40 lines. 



Mexico. 



Clemens. 



