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Secondaries yellowish grey ; brown marginal band, paler towards outer angle, and not reaching to ab- 
dominal margin. Fringe white. 
Habitat. Canada, New England and Middle States, also Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, Indiana, Wiscon- 
sin, and probably other States. Rare. 
Dr. Clemens’ description applies only to the male, which differs from the female much more than is 
generally the case in this genus. The types were captured by Mr. T. B. Ashton, who directed Dr. Clemens’ 
attention to them in the collection of George Newman, Philadelphia, where they were represented, I believe, 
in both sexes. 
Of the larvae I believe nothing is known. 
SPHINX LUGENS. Walker. 
0. B. M., Vol. VIII, p. 219 (1856.) 
Grote & Robinson, List Lep. X. Am., p. 5 (1868). 
Agrius Lugens, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sc., Vol. I, p. 26 (1873), Vol. II, p. 228 (1875). Gaumer, Observer of Nature, Vol. II, 
No. 5 (1875). 
Sphinx Eremitoides, on page 93 of this work. 
(PLATE XIII, FIG. 12 ?.) 
Since redescribing this species from examples received from Mr. Ashton, I have become indebted for 
others to Prof. Snow, of Kansas, who was the first to breed it and who describes the larva, when full-grown 
and ready to enter the ground, as follows : 
“Length 31 inches, greatest thickness .56 in., head greenish brown with a distinct white stripe on each side; general colour of 
body pale green, with seven oblique lateral white bands; caudal horn black and in length .37 in. It becomes full-grown from 21st of 
September to 15th of October; imago appears from May 20th to June 10th. Food plants Salvia Piteherii, Torrey, and Salvia Trichos- 
temmoides, Parsh. The larvae were first observed by me in October, 1873, in great abundance, and several imagines were obtained from 
them in the following May and June; the species is double brooded.” Mr. Gaumer, in the “Observer,” also states that “two broods of 
these caterpillars appear during the year, the first in June, the second very late in autumn ; the last brood hibernate in the chrysalis 
state under ground and are much more numerous than the first.” 
Walker’s types in the British Museum were from Mexico, and no N. American collection, I believe, possessed it, nor was it known 
to occur in the United States until taken by Mr. Ashton and Prof. Snow, in Kansas. 
Dr. Clemens, in Jnl. Acad. Nat. Sc., Phila., Vol. IV, p. 169 (1859), gives Lugens as a synonym of Sordida, Hub., (which latter 
is, by the way, a synonym of Eremitus, Hub.). 
The example described by me on page 93 as having the black mesial band of secondaries broken in the middle by the whitish 
ground is merely an aberration, as I have not observed this peculiarity in any of the examples since received. 
SPHINX PLOTA. 
Described on p. 106. 
(PLATE XIII, FIG. 13 J'.) 
Since describing the males taken in Canada I have received a fine female of this species from Mr. Dury, 
who captured it near Cincinnati; I have also heard of several olher examples that were taken in various 
localities, so that this is evidently as widespread a species as most of its congeuors. 
The female resembles the male, save that the primaries are more even coloured, there being fewer dark 
marks than on the other sex. Of the larva, as yet, nothing has come to my knowledge. 
SPHINX J ASM INE ARUM. Boisduval, 
Griffith’s Cuvier’s Animal King., XV, T. 83, f. 1 (1832). Leconte Sr., Wilson Treat. Ent. in Enc. Brit., p. 236. f. 5, 6 (1835). 
Clemens, Jnl. Acad. Nat. Sc., Phila., Vol. IV, p. 173 (1859). Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 19 (1860) ; Syn. Lep. N. Am., 
p. 198 (1862). Walker, C. B. M., Sup. Vol. XXXI, p. 36 (1864). Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. V, p. 165 
(1865). 
Diludia Jasminearum, Grote & Robinson, List. Lep. N. Am., p. 4 (1868). Grote, Bull. Buff Soc. Nat. Sc., Vol. I, p. 25 (1873), Vol. II, 
p. 227 (1875). 
(PLATE XIII, FIG. 14 tf.) 
Expands 3f to 5 inches. 
Head and body above whitish grey ; a black stripe on sides of the thorax ; on abdomen lateral white 
spots edged with black ; beneath white. 
