Catalogue of North American Sphinges. 299 



1. P. Vitis. L. 



Grayish flesh-colored ; fore-wings, except the anterior and 

 outer margins, dark oHve, with a broad stripe from base to tip, 

 crossed by another from the middle of the inner margin, a small 

 hook-shaped spot near the middle, and the nervures behind, of a 

 pale flesh-color ; hind-wings pale green at base, with the inner 

 and hinder margins rose-red, a black spot near the middle and a 

 black transverse band behind ; a longitudinal line on the head 

 and thorax, the shoulder-covers, two broad stripes on the abdo- 

 men, and a round spot on each side of its base of a dark olive 

 color. Expands about four inches. Larva, as represented by 

 Abbot, (Ins. Georg. p. 79, pi. 40,) pale pea-green, longitudinally 

 striped on the top of the back and transversely at the sides with 

 brown, and with seven oval, obliqne, cream-colored spots on each 

 side. According to Linnajus and Mad. Merian, it lives on the 

 grape-vine ; but Blr. Abbot has represented it upon Jussicea erecla. 

 Inhabits the Southern States, South America, &c. 



This insect fades very much by age, which changes the flesh- 

 colored portions to a pale reddish buff" or nankin color. My spe- 

 cimens were received from Dr. J. E. Holbrook, of Charleston, 

 S. Carolina.* 



2. P. Satellilia. L. = Licaon 7 Cramer. 



Light olive, variegated with dark olive ; fore-wings with an 

 abbreviated band beyond the middle, an oblong patch on the ba- 

 sal half of the hind margin including a square darker spot, a semi- 

 oval spot near the tip, and a triangular one near the hind angle, 

 of a dark olive color, and two approximated brownish dots near 

 the middle ; hind-wings with a black spot near the middle of the 

 inner margin, and a transverse blackish baud behind, obsolete 

 near the anal angle and ending there in a few small black spots; 



* I have received from Dr. H. B. Hornbeck, King's physician, in the island of 

 St. Thomas, W. I., a species which is closely allied to P. Vitis ; and, as it is not 

 described in any of my books, I am happy to describe it liere under the name of 



P. Hornbechiana. 



Above olive gray ; fore-wings dark olive, with two silvery white stripes crossin" 

 each other in the middle of the wing, the longest stripe toothed near the b.ise of 

 the wing and obsolete thence to the middle, three of the nervures and a band on 

 the outer margin whitish, and two approximated black dots near the middle ; hind- 

 wings on the inner margin pink, with a large square olive-colored spot, dusky be- 

 hind with a black transverse band ; an olive-colored line on the head and thorax; 

 the shoulder-covers and first segment of the abdomen olive, bordered with white; 

 upper part of the abdomen olive, with a central gray lino ; outer sides of the legs 

 and antenniB white. Expands about four inches. Inhabits St. Thomas, VV. I. 



