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of a light cream or yellowish- white hue ; the under surface of the abdomen is bright 

 ferruginous (rusty red), with three or four small yellowish tufts between the segments on 

 the line separating the dorsal and ventral segments ; the lateral anal tufts are black, the 

 central reddish- brown and ferruginous beneath ; the front wings are ferruginous and 

 olivaceous towards the base ; the disk is divided by a dark brown line : the broad 

 terminal band is dark brown, with a ferruginous patch in the apical insterspace ; the hind 

 wings have a bright ferruginous broad inner border, a moderately broad duller terminal 

 band, the nervules in which are blackish. The moth appears about the same time as 

 H. diffinis ; it is often seen in the hot sun, and at twilight flying about the blossoms of the 

 garden phlox, the common lilac, and Rhodora Canadensis. 



6. Lepisesia flavofasciata, Barnston. 



Macroglossa flavofasciata, Barnston, Walker, C. B. M. 



Clemens, Syn, N. A. Sph. 

 " " Morris, Syn. K A. Lep., Sm. Ins., p. 151. 



Lejoisesia " Grote, 1865. 



We give Mr. Grote's description of this moth : — 



" The peculiarly neat and elegant little species, of which this genus is composed, has 

 not been very clearly described by Mr. Walker, and we give here its more detailed 

 description, as follows : — Black. Above the thorax and head are clothed with pale yellowish 

 sericeous (silky), erect hair, mingled with blackish scales ; laterally the palpi and the 

 orbits of the e^'es are deep black ; abdomen black, ^vith sericeous hairs above on the basal 

 segment ; anal tuft black, with lateral sericeous sub-tufts ; the anterior (front) wings are 

 blackish, with obsolete (indistinct) ornamentation ; a rather broad semi-diaphanous 

 (transparent) sub-terminal band, composed of sparse and whitish scales, extends evenly 

 and obliquely from costa to internal margin ; the terminal portion of the wing is less 

 thickly covered with scales, acquiring a paler tinge than the basal portion ; posterior 

 (hind) wings, with a broad central fulvous fascia (tawny stripe), which contracts trian- 

 gularly towards internal margin, before anal angle becoming somewhat linear and 

 sinuate (scooped out). Beneath, the anterior wings at base are largely covered with 

 bright fulvous squamation (scales) ; the central fascia on posterior wings is whitish ; 

 legs and under thoracic and abdominal regions black. Expands — male, 1.60 inch ; length 

 of body, .80 inch." 



7. Amphion Nessus, Hubner. 



Sphinx Nessus, Cramer. 

 Sphinx Nessus, Fabricius. 



Thyreus Nessus, Walker, C. B. M. Lep., Part YIII., p. 99. 



Thyreus Nessus, Clemens, Syn. N. A. Sph. 



Thyreus Nessus, Morris, Syn, N. A. Lep., Sm. Ins., p. 157. 



The following description by Mr. W. V. Andrews appeared in Yol. IX. of Canadian 

 Entomologist, p. 19 : — 



" Mature larva, two and a half to three inches in length, tapering gently from the 

 fourth segment to the head ; colour, uniform chocolate brown, thickly dotted over the 

 body, and particularly along the dorsal line, with dark umber, of which colour are also 

 the right lateral or stigmatal stripes ; anal horn on eleventh segment very short, one-fifth 

 of an inch in length ; very sluggish in its movements, showing none of the irritability of 

 T. Ahhotii when touched. When at rest it stretches itself at full length along the leaf 

 or leaf stem of the plant on which it feeds, never raising or retracting the anterior seg- 

 ments. Pujxi dark brown ; found either among rubbish on the surface of the ground or 

 Slightly beneath the surface ; tongue case internal, not visible ; feeds on fuchsia. Pupa 

 11th, 12th, 13th July, one moth on 8th August, two others not yet emerged, and pro- 

 bably will winter in the pupa state." 



Moth. — Head and thorax dull ferruginous brown ; breast somewhat reddish ; a yel- 

 lowish-white streak on the sides of the head and thorax ; the abdomen a dark chestnut- 



