198 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



8. S. gordius Cramer. Figured in Cram. Ill, pi. 247. 



Head and disk of the thorax blackish-brown or black and red- 

 dish-gray on the sides. Abdomen dark gray, with a dorsal black 

 line and alternate black and grayish demi-bands. Anterior wings 

 blackish-gray, with a roseate hue; discal spot conspicuous and 

 white, a discal black line bifid toward the discal spot, with the 

 usual lines and streaks in interspaces and submedian sulcus, black; 

 a blackish-brown marginal shade, with pale grayish on the portion 

 of the wing above it, at the base and the tip of the wing. Fringes 

 dark brown spotted with white. Posterior wings gray, with a black 

 median band, and a broad, black marginal band ; the fringes white. 



Mature Larva. Apple green, with seven oblique white lateral 

 bands, slightly edged above with violet, a rusted caudal horn, and 

 a brownish line on each side of head. (Harris.) There is almost 

 too much resemblance in this description to the larva of drupi- 

 ferarum. 



Pupation. The larval transformation is subterranean ; pupa 

 with a very short detached tongue-case. (Harris.) 



Food-plants. The larva feeds on the leaves of the apple-tree. 

 (Harris.) 



Maine ; Massachusetts ; Connecticut. 



Clemens. 



9. S. jasminearum Le Conte, Sr. Wilson, Treat. Ent. in Ency. Brit. pi. 



236, f. 5, 6. 



Palpi gray-brownish on the sides. Head and thorax pale gray, 

 with a transverse black line on prothorax extended to the middle 

 of tegulse, with a black dash in the middle of the disk and meta- 

 thoracic black streaks on each side of median line. Abdomen dull 

 gray, with a black stripe on each side containing whitish spots. 

 Anterior wings gray, with blackish-brown markings; a blackish 

 streak at the base of inner margin, with two brownish lines from 

 the disk to its lower end; two blackish-brown oblique lines or a 

 broad oblique streak from the costa to the disk at the origin of 

 median nervules; discal spot white, with a brownish discolored 

 patch just posterior to it, extending from costa at the origin of sub- 

 costo inferior nervule to medio-posterior interspace, where it be- 

 comes a black spot, and continued thence to inner margin as two 

 brownish lines; two doubly curved lines of connected spots cross- 

 ing the middle of the nervules from near the origin of post-apical 



