8 HAWK-MOTHS OF THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK CITY 



Hind wings uniform warm brown, tipped with white. 



Lapara coniferarum. 

 Fore wings with a double -toothed transverse line and 

 two angulated lines. 

 Hind wings as in coniferarum .... Lapara bombycoides. 

 Fore wings light gray, sometimes streaked with brown. 

 Hind wings rusty brown with darker outer border. 



Dilophonota ello. 

 Fore wings dark brown with ash-gray markings. 



Hind wings dull rusty brown Deidamia inscripta. 



Fore wings light ochre brown, sometimes marked with 

 darker brown. 

 Hind wings similar, with two narrow lines. 



Cressonia juglandis. 



Section 7. — With gray or blackish brown markings, without pink, 

 yellow or green. 



Hind wings with a white band. 



Fore wings ash gray with four black streaks between 

 the veins. 

 Thorax gray with two black lines. . . Sphinx chersis. 

 Fore wings dirty gray with black dashes. 



Thorax dull gray with two obscure black lines ; sides 



whitish Sphinx canadensis. 



Fore wings sooty black, grayish in the middle. 



Thorax brown black; side gray.. . .Sphinx gordius. 

 Fore wings deep sooty blackish brown, pale gray along 

 the costal region. 

 Thorax deep brownish black, sides pale grayish. 



Sphinx drupiferarum. 

 Hind wings without white band. 



Fore wings gray with many dark transverse wavy lines. 

 Thorax grayish bordered with black. 



Ccratomia undulosa. 

 Fore wings light gray with a prominent oblique black 



dash Chlceno gramma jasminearum. 



Fore wings gray streaked with black and with a 

 white dot near the middle Sphinx plebeius. 



