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anal angle ; head and shoulder-covers dark olive ; and a white 

 line on each side of Ihc thorax at the origin of the wings. Ex- 

 pands two and a half to two inches and three quarters. Larva pale 

 green, with a longitudinal series of six triangular orange-colored 

 spots on the top of the back and a darker green lateral line ; sides 

 below this paler, almost white, s])rinkled with rusty dots, and 

 with six oblique green bands ; caudal horn short, bluish green. 

 It varies in being of a clear light brown color, with the back 

 bounded on each side by a darker longitudinal line, meeting at 

 the origin of the caudal horn, the sides tinged with i)ink, and 

 obliquely banded with brown. Feeds on the leaves of the grape- 

 vine. Pupa clay-colored, sprinkled and punctured with black, 

 and with the incisures of the abdomen black. 



Mr. Abbot, on jjlate 28 of his Insects of Georgia, has represen- 

 ted this larva with the caudal horn too long and loo much curved, 

 and the eleventh segment not so much produced behind as it 

 ought to be. This species, in the winged state, comes very near 

 to Cramer's Sphinx Myron, which, from the figure, seems to 

 want the spot in the middle of the fore-wings, and, according to 

 Cramer, has a very short tongue, a character that does not apply 

 to the Pampinatrix. The larva, above described, is one of the 

 most injurious to our cultivated grape-vines ; for, not satisfied 

 with devouring the leaves, it nips off the fruit-stalks when the 

 grapes are not more than half grown. I have gathered under a 

 single grape-vine above a quart of unripe grapes which had been 

 detached thus during one night by these larvcE. 



2. C. Chwrihis. Cramer. = Azalere. Smith-Abbot. 



Rust-colored ; fore-wings rusty gray tinged with blue, with a 

 dot near the middle, a few spots between it and the base, and a 

 very broad band beyond the middle, rust-colored ; hind-wings 

 rust-colored, dusky near the anal angle, with a whitish fringe ; a 

 spot at the sides and a slender line on the top of the thorax, the 

 edges of the shoulder-covers and of the abdominal segments 

 white. In the male the broad band of the fore-wings is marked 

 by a pale and a dark zigzag line so as nearly to divide it into two 

 bands. Expands two and a half to three inches. Larva, as rep- 

 resented by Abbot, (Ins. Georg. p. 53, pi. 27,) varying in color, 

 being either pale green, with a narrow dusky dorsal line, a green- 

 ish line on each side, a blue-green caudal horn, and the sides 

 obliquely banded with green ; or clear pale red, with the lines 

 and bands brownish, and the horn chestnut-colored. Mr. Abbot 



