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stripe of the same hue, thus forming a series of angular bands on 

 the sides. The stigmata) are all black, except the first and last, 

 which arc orange-yellow. The feet and caudal horn black. Body 

 dotted with numerous ycllowish-grcen dots, and marked with short 

 black lines above the lateral bands. 



Pupation. The larval transformation is subterranean. The 

 pupa dark reddish-brown, with a cylindrical, long and much-arched, 

 detached tongue-case. 



Food-plants. The tomato and potato plants. 



Throughout the United States. 



Clemens. 



10. M. brontes ? Sphinx Ironies Drury, II, 52, pi. 29, f. 3.i Walker. 



"The insect here described differs much from Drury's figure, and 

 may be a distinct species." 



Cinereous. Antennae white. Thorax margined with black, with 

 white on the sides. Abdomen with a median black line, and two 

 angulated black streaks on the sides. Anterior wings with a white 

 discal spot, with transverse angulated interior brown and exterior 

 black lines, with an exterior undefined white band and streak be- 

 hind, sometimes obsolete, and with exterior black streaks. Hind 

 wings brownish, with three blackish streaks. 



United States. 



Clemens. 



11. M. forestan Cramer, IV, 216, pi. 394. 



Tongue one-third longer than the body. 



Head and tips of palpi brownish gray, the latter beneath gray 



1 I Ironies Drury. "The antennae are white inwardly, hut hrown out- 

 wardly. The eyes largo and black. The head and neck dark hrown. 

 Thorax and ahdomen gray ; on the hind part of the former are two small 

 "black spots, and on each ring two small black streaks. Anterior wings 

 gray, with a white discal spot and a small white cloud next the tips ; 

 having several curved and indented black lines crossing them from the 

 anterior to the posterior edges, some heing faint and others - very distinct. 

 The fringes are hrown, spotted with white. The inferior wings are of a 

 very dark hrown, but along the abdominal edges and corners are gray. 

 Fringe like that of the superior wings. Beneath, breast white ; ahdomen 

 white with four central reddish spots; anterior wings uniform, dark 

 grayish-brown, with a narrow white streak at the tips. Inferior wings 

 crossed by two faint lines and also of a dark grayish-brown." 



From New York. 



