LEPIDOPTERA, 



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is pale olive, verging in some places into gray ; the markings 

 consist of patches and stripes of dark, rich velvety olive, 

 sometimes almost black (Fig. 414). Near the inner margins 

 of both pairs of wings the lighter color shades out into pale 

 yellow, which is tinged in places with delicate rose-color. 



Fig. 414 — Pkilampelus pandoruS' 



These markmgs show a harmony of contrasting shades 

 rarely equalled elsewhere by nature or art. The larva is 

 one of the Hog-caterpillars. It feeds upon the leaves of 

 Virginia-creeper. When young it is pinkish in color, and 

 has a long pinkish caudal horn ; as it matures it changes to 

 a reddish brown, and the horn shortens and curls up like 

 a dog's tail and finally disappears, leaving an eye-like tuber- 

 cle. The caterpillar has on each side six cream-colored oval 

 spots, enveloping the spiracles. 



The White-lined Sphinx, Deilephila Imeata (Dei-leph^i-la 

 lin-e-a'ta). — This moth can be easily recognized by Figure 

 415. Its body and fore wings are olive-brown; there are 

 three parallel white stripes along each side of the thorax ; 

 the outer one of these extends forward over the eyes to tlie 



base of the palpi ; on the fore wings there is a buff stripe 

 extending from near the base of the inner margin to the 



apex, and veins III. to IX are lined with white ; the hind 



