302 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body ash-coloured : thorax with a large trapezoidal brown spot dilated next the abdomen : pri- 

 maries angulated, ash-coloured, with a transverse series of brown submarginal crescents in a paler 

 band, between which and the posterior margin is another obsolete paler one ; above the crescents is 

 a straight whitish band, and a linear angular forked one under the internal sinuses of which the 

 wings are clouded with dark brown ; underneath the above markings of the wing are very indistinct : 

 the secondaries are rose-colour, paler at the costal and posterior margins ; underneath they are dusky- 

 cinereous, with a whitish band coinciding with that of the primaries, a transverse series of crescents 

 and a dentated brownish band, all rather indistinct : but the most conspicuous character of the second- 

 aries is a large eyelet situated at the anal angle, consisting of a black pupil, nearly but not quite 

 surrounded by a blue iris, and situated in a black triangular spot or atmosphere, which extends to 

 the anal angle, and is surmounted by some blue scales : the abdomen above is dusky ash-coloured. 



This insect appears to be the American representative of S. ocellatus, from which however it 

 differs considerably. It comes very near to S. gerninatus (Say Am. Ent. i, t. xii,) but in that the 

 eyelet has two blue pupils. 



CXC. Genus DEILEPHILA. Ochs. 



(423) 1. * Deilephila intermedia. Intermediate Deilephila. 



D. f intermedia J olivacea ; alis primoribus vitta intermedia antice pallide rosea postice nigra; secundariis nigris fascia rosea, 



intus, et ciliis, albis. 

 Intermediate Deilephila, olive-coloured ; primary wings with an intermediate stripe anteriorly pale rose-colour, posteriorly 



black ; secondaries black with a rose-coloured band which internally, as well as the fringe, is white. 



Expansion of the wings 2i inches. 



Taken in North America. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This species is intermediate between D. Euphorbia and D. Gain, which last it most resembles, 

 but the anterior portion of the mesal stripe of the primary wings is pale rose-colour ; the fringe of 

 their inner margin, and of the posterior of the secondaries is white : there is no series of white 

 dots on the back of the abdomen and the ventral segments are fringed at the apex with white hairs. 

 This description was taken from an old specimen apparently somewhat faded. 



