PIIILAMPKLUS VITIS. 
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The expansion of the wings, in Philampelus vilis, 
is about four inches ; head, antennae, and thorax 
dark flesh-coloured, the latter with a broad central 
stripe of olive-brown and a shorter one on each 
side, the central one sometimes prolonged over the 
vertex of the head. Anterior wings olive-brown, 
with various flesh-coloured bars and stripes; two 
conspicuous broad bars of the last mentioned colour 
diverge from the base of the wing, one of them run- 
ning along the centre, the other along the anterior 
border, and unite with a transverse one, which com- 
mences at the apex and terminates towards the 
middle of the posterior margin; external margin 
with a broad clay- coloured band. The base of the 
under wings is bluish-ash, which colour is succeeded 
by a broad black band, and the hinder extremity is 
red ; the anal angle black. The ground colour of 
the abdomen is the same as that of the thorax, the 
back with two parallel streaks of olive-brown, which 
are intersected by a narrow' band of the same colour 
on each segment. 
The caterpillar is greenish-yellow, transversely 
striped with reddish-brown, with a series of oblique 
white stripes on the sides, terminating a little below 
the spirales, which are included within the white 
portion; head and legs reddish-brown; the anal 
segment acutely prominent on the back, but not 
prolonged into a horn. Its food seems to be various. 
Abbot figures it on the Jussica erecta, but it more 
commonly feeds on the vine and magnolia glauca, 
It is not a very common insect in America. 
