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SMERINTHUS MYOPS. 
Larva feeds on the Wild Cherry, and is pale green, with transverse oblique yellow and red lines or bands 
on the sides, the last of these extending up the caudal horn ; stigmata red. 
This is found in the same localities as Excaecata, Juglandis, &c., but is very rare. 
Chenu* has on the plate between pages 4 and 5 a male figure which, notwithstanding the exaggeration of 
the apical and outer portion of primaries, is easily recognizable as Myops, beneath we are informed it is 
“ Smerinthe Ocelli, femelle,” which latter intelligence does not quite take our breath, as the first shock is ex- 
perienced on looking at plate I of the same work where the tailless, plain antennaed female of Saturnia Isa- 
bella; is figured with the title of “ Attacus Isabella male.” f 
SMERINTIIUS ASTYLUS. Drury. 
Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Yol. If, p. 45, t. 26, (1773. 
(PLATE YII, FIG. 10, tf.) 
Male. Expands 2| to 2§ inches. 
Head and body cinnamon colored, a yellowish red dorsal ridge on thorax. Abdomen with a brown 
dorsal line, not very distinct, sides somewhat yellow. 
L T pper surface; primaries, flesh colored basal patch; rest of wing cinnamon colored, with the inner mar- 
gin blue grey, a mere line at the pale basal patch, but beyond that it becomes wider and is abruptly terminated 
not far from the inner angle by a yellow spot ; there is also another yellow spot at the apex ; a submarginal 
flesh colored line, and several smaller ones at the costa; a brown discal spot. Secondaides, inner part yellow, 
which about halfway in becomes merged in cinnamon red, which color occupies the balance of the wing; near 
the costa are two pale lines ; a round black spot with blue pupil near the anal angle. 
Under surface very much the same as in S. Myops, with, however, more of a reddish cast throughout. 
Female differs only from the male in being a little larger, and paler in color. 
To the kindness of Prof. Meyer, of Brooklyn, who discovered the larva, and who is so far, I believe, the 
only person who has bred this rare species, I am indebted for colored drawings in which it is represented as 
being If to 2 inches in length ; of a pale green color, beautifully variegated with dorsal and lateral yellow and 
red stripes and spots, somewhat in the manner of S. Myops. Its food plant is the tall Whortleberry or Huck- 
leberry, (Vac. Corymbosum.) 
Habitat. H. York, N. Jersey, Pennsylvania ; of exceeding great rarity. 
SMERINTHUS GEMINATUS. Say. 
American Entomology, Yol. 1, p. 25, t. 12, (1824.) 
(PLATE VII, FIG. 6, J 1 , 7, 9.) 
Male. Expands 2f inches. 
Head pale grey ; palpi dark brown ; thorax pale grey with a large brown dorsal patch ; abdomen greyish 
brown. 
Upper surface, primaries, pale grey, of a somewhat pinkish tint, with various transverse brown lines and 
shades ; a dark reddish brown patch in the median space interiorly ; a pale discal mark ; a dark reddish brown 
lunate spot, edged interiorly with pale gray, at apex, and another on interior margin near the inner angle. 
Secondaries, deep rose color, somewhat broadly margined exteriorly and on costa with clay color ; near the 
anal angle a black spot containing two blue marks, from whence the insect derives its name ; this ocellus is 
prolonged into a hook-like black mark, which connects it with the anal angle. 
* Chenu.— Encyclopedic d’historie Naturelle. Papillons Nocturnes. 
t The ^ of Saturnia Isabella), Graells, (Ann. Soo. Fr. p. 241 , 1850 ,) has the secondaries tailed like our Luna, (though belonging to a different 
group,) and broadly pectinated antennae. 
