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The full-grown larva (fig. 34) is about three inches long, and has the head reddish- 

 brown ; body pale reddish-brown on the back, vriih a darker vascular line, and pale 

 reddish subdorsal line on each side, and the general colour deepened laterally. It has six 

 scalloped cream-coloured patches, bordered with white, containing the breathing places 

 or stigmata. There are from six to eight transverse wrinkles on all but the thoracic 

 and caudal segments. The lenticular caudal tubercle is black, polished, and contained in 

 a brown patch edged with black and white lines. The larva is covered with minute 

 spots, which are dark on the back, but are light and annulated on the sides. The head, 

 which is small, the front segments and breathing holes are somewhat flesh-coloured, while 

 the prolegs and caudal plate are deep brown. Feeds on the vine and Virginia creeper. 



Before going into chrysalis it often changes 

 to a beautiful pink or crimson colour. It 

 burrows in the ground, and after making a 



V*^^^ ' ^^y^-J^ smooth cavity, undergoes its pupa state. 



The chrysalis (fig. 35) is of a dark shining 

 Z mahogany -brown colour, roughened, espe- 



cially on the anterior edge of the segments 

 in the back. The moth (see fig. 36) expands from three to four inches ; it is of a red- 

 dish ash colour, variegated with light brown, with two triangular patches of deep ferrugi- 



nous on the thorax, margined with whitish, and two square ones on each fore wing ; the 

 hind wings are pink, with a dark shade across the middle, still darker spots below this 

 shade, and a broad ash-coloured border behind. . 



• ■•^^-'It is usually single brooded, the chrysalis remaining in the ground during the fall, 

 winter and spring, and producing the moth about the end of J une. 



17. Paonias myops. Abbot and Smith. 



Sphinx myops, Abbot and Smith 

 Paonias myops, Hubner. 

 Smerinthus rosacceurum, Boisduval. 



myops, Walker, C. B. M. 



" Clemens, Syn. N. A. Sph. 

 " " Morris, Syn. N. A. Lep. Sm. Ins., p. 207. 



Harris, Ins. Inj. Yeg., p. 328. 



Mature larva. — " Head bluish-green, with a bright yellow line on the sides. Body 

 bluish-green, with a row of subdorsal and stigraatal reddish-brown spots ; six oblique 

 lateral bright yellow bands, with two thoracic subdorsal yellow lines ; caudal horn yellow 

 on the sides." 



