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SPHINX CHIONANTni. 
bounded by these white portions, bears a small 
round white spot in the centre, and there is a 
waved white streak at the apex of the wing ; the 
whole of the white parts are waved and clouded 
with light brown. The hinder wings are almost 
wholly brown, excepting the base and a few marks 
near the anal angle which are white ; fringe of all 
the wings brown and white alternately. The head 
and thorax are variously marked with white, the 
latter with two small round white spots anteriorly, 
and a large posterior patch bearing a very faint 
resemblance to a death’s-head ; three anterior seg- 
ments of the abdomen with a largo yellow round 
spot on each side. 
The caterpillar (Plate VI. fig. 2) is yellowish 
green, the latter hue prevailing on the under side, 
and the former on the back and sides. There is a 
series of oblique stripes along the sides of the seg- 
ments, consisting of a streak of white, purple, and 
faint blue. These are wanting in the three segments 
behind the head, which have two dorsal rows of 
reddish tubercles ; tail yellow, granular. “ It feeds,” 
says Abbot, “ on the fringe-tree ( Cliionanthus Vir- 
ginica), called old-man’s-beard from its clusters of 
white blossoms, and also on the privet and lilac. 
I procured several in Virginia upon the last men- 
tioned shrub, which went into the ground July 31st, 
but every one of them died in the chrysalis during 
winter. After I had been several years in Georgia, 
I found some on the old-man’s-beard in June, which 
buried themselves on the 22nd of that month, and 
