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gi-een and reddish-brown. The fore wings slightly rusty red at the base, with narrovf 

 olive-green and dull white bands, the latter tinged with rusty red ; an oblique whitish 

 apical line with an olive-green patch adjoining. Hind wings rust coloured, with indistinct 

 greenish terminal margin. 



Under-surface of fore wings pale sulphureous, toward the base pale ferruginous ; 

 hind wings olive-green, powdered with white at the base. 



14. Darapsa myrox, Cramer. 



Sphinx myron, Cramer. 



" pampiyiatrix, Abbot and Smith, Ins. Ga. 

 Otus myron, Hubner. 



Darapsa myron, Walker, C. B. M., Part YIII., p. 183. 



" " Clemens, Syn. K A. Sph. 



" " Morris, Syn. K A. Lep. Sm. Ins., p. 168. 



Chcerocampa pampinatrix, Harris, Ins. Inj. Veg., p. 327. 



This moth has already been so fully described in previous reports, that we shall only 

 briefly refer to it here. 



The full-grown caterpillar (see fig. 27) is about two inches long, of a pea-green 

 colour, wrinkled transversely, with a pale yellow stripe on each side, and covered with 

 numerous pale yellow dots ; the caudal horn sharp and curved backwards. The accom- 

 panying figure (27) gives a very good idea of the larva, which has the power of drawing 

 the head and the first two segments of the body within the third segment. 



The larva is double-brooded, and feeds 

 on the vines and Virginia creeper, Ampelop- 

 sis quinquefolia. It is much infested by a 

 small ichneumon fly (see fig. 28), which 

 lays its egg in the larva. The larva thus 

 infested always dies. Fig. 29 gives a capi- 

 tal representation of a larva thus attacked. 



Fig. 28. 



Fig. 29. 



