PHILAMPELUS. 1?7 



articles of palpi brownish; tegulas dark olive, forming a triangular 

 patch ; a dorsal line on prothorax and two metathoracic patches 

 dark olive. Abdomen pale brownish tinged with green, with a 

 dark olive patch on dorsum at the base and a lateral blackish patch 

 on each side. Anterior wings pale green, with deep olive shades; 

 a sub-median nearly square patch on inner margin, with a shade 

 extending to the base, a patch above the interior angle, with a 

 spot in the medio-posterior interspace separated from it by the 

 nervule, and almost bordered by a faint line which is angulated on 

 the medio-central, a sub-apical patch and a broad disco-median 

 shade, all deep olive; a double blackish discal spot. The medio- 

 central and posterior nervules and the space between the patches 

 on the inner margin, tinged with roseate; a few olive-colored 

 dashes across the disk and two lines of the same hue, sometimes 

 faint, crossing the nervules from the hind portion of sub-median 

 patch. Posterior wings pale green, with a large, round black 

 patch toward the middle of inner margin, and a broad sub-terminal 

 black demi-band terminating in blackish lines and a row of spots 

 toward inner margin, on a roseate ground. 



Mature Larva. Head green. Body pale green on dorsum, 

 deepening on the sides, with minute dark green rings, which be- 

 come on the dorsum dark green dots. Six short, irregularly oval 

 patches on the sides, margined with a black line, inclosing the 

 stigmatae, which are bordered with pale crimson. The lenticular 

 tubercle black and contained in a yellow patch bordered with 

 black. 



Food-plants. Indigenous and exotic grape-vines and Ampe- 

 lopsis. 



South America; Mexico; West Indies; United States. 



Clemens. 



2. P. achemon Drury. Sphinx crantor Cramer. Pholus crantor Hiibner. 

 Figured in Drury, II, pi. 20. 



The head, tips of the palpi and "disk of the thorax fawn-color 

 with a grayish hue; basal articles of the palpi dark reddish-brown ; 

 tegulse deep ferruginous brown, forming a triangular patch mar- 

 gined with whitish. The abdomen pale reddish-brown with a cu- 

 preous lustre, and the hind portions of the segments tipped with 

 white. Anterior wings dusky fawn-color, sometimes pale-fawn 

 color, with a ferruginous brown dot at the base, a square sub-me- 

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