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SPHINX JASMINEARUM. 
Upper surface ; primaries same colour as body, with zig-zag transverse brown lines; a dark shade ex- 
tends from a little below the middle of exterior margin to the costa interior to the discal spot, this latter white 
and inconspicuous; fringes white, brown at terminations of veins. 
Secondaries dark brown, with obsolete traces of marginal and mesial bands ; greyish at abdominal and 
inner half of exterior margins ; fringes as in superiors. 
Under surface light brown ; basal half of secondaries paler and greyish. 
Habitat. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and others of the Atlantic States. Rare. 
Larva pale yellowish-green, dorsal lines of darker colour on the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth 
segments ; transverse narrow white lateral stripes on all the segments save the two last, where these stripes 
which extend to the caudal horn are red and green, the latter colour uppermost ; caudal horn green, with dull 
red serrations. Feeds on ash, and probably elm. 
The genus Diludia in which Grote places this species he constructed with Sphinx Brontes , Drury, for his type. Here are his 
words, from which it will be seen that the weighty reasons for erecting the genus Diludia are these, that : “From Maerosila the species 
differ by the straighter external margin of the primaries, and by the exserted internal angle, in those characters resembling Amphonynx, 
while the normal palpal conformation, with a number of other characters, amply separate them from Prof. Poey’s genus. We do not 
give further characters here of a genus which we are satisfied should be erected, since we have insufficient material upon which to am- 
plify from needed dissections.”* And of course, as the authors were “satisfied,” it was the duty of the scientific world to humbly submit 
without putting G. & R. to the trouble of giving “further characters.” 
SPHINX CONIFERARUM. Abbot & Smith. 
Lep. Insects of Georgia, p. 81, T. 42 (1797). Harris, Sill. Jnl. Art. & Sc., XXXVI, p. 296 (1839); Ins. Inj. Veg. (Flint’s 
Ed.), p. 328 (1862). Morris, Cat. Lep. X. Am., p. 18 (1860) ; Syn. Lep. X. Am., p. 199 (1862). 
Hyloicus Coniferarum, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 139 (1816). Grote & Robinson, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. V, p. 166 (1865); 
List Lep. X. Am., p. 5 (1868). 
Anceryx Coniferarum, Walker, C. B. M., Vol. VIII, p. 224 (1856). 
Ellema Coniferarum, Gr<'te, Bull. Buff. Soc. Xat. Sc., Vol. I, p. 27 (1873). 
Lapara Coniferarum, Grote, 1. c., Vol. II, p. 228 (1875). 
(PLATE XIII, FIG. 15 J 1 .) 
Expands about 2^ inches. 
Head and collar umber ; thorax and abdomen ash-grey and immaculate. 
Upper surface, superiors ash-grey with two short black streaks in the cells between the median nervules, 
and an inconspicuous dentated transverse line succeeded inwardly by a slightly paler shade ; fringes white, 
with brown at terminations of venation. Inferior wings brownish-grey, paler at base ; fringes as on superiors. 
Under surface pale brownish-grey. 
Habitat. New York, Maryland, Georgia, and doubtless others of the Southern and Middle States. 
Exceedingly rare. 
The only examples I know of are in the collection of Titian Peale, Esq., and two in my own possession, 
one of which was taken in New York State, and the other was raised from a larva found feeding on pine, near 
Baltimore, Md.f 
Abbot has figured the larva, which he says fed on Pinus Palustris ; it has a yellow head, and the body 
chequered with light and dark grey squares. 
SPHINX HARRISII. Clemens. 
Ellema Harrisii, Clemens, Jnl. Acad. Xat. Sc., Phila., Vol. IV, p. 188 (1859). Morris, Cat. Lep. X. Am., p. 20 (I860). Grote & Robin- 
son, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., p. 166 (1865). Lintner, 23d Report X. Y. State Cab. Xat. Hist., p. 170, T. 8, f. 10 (J 1 , 11 9 
(1869). Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Xat. Sc., Vol. I, p. 27 (1873). 
Ellema Harrisi, Mo~ris, Syn. Lep. X. Am., p. 216 (1862). 
Hyloicus Harrisii, Grote & Robinson, List Lep. X. Am., p. 5 (1868). 
Eilema. Harrisii, Walker, C. B. M., Supplement Vol. XXXI, p. 37 (1864). 
Sphinx Coniferarum, Harris, Sill. Am. Jnl. Sc., Vol. XXXVI, p. 297 (1839). 
Lapara Bombycoides, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc., Vol. II, p. 228 (1875). 
(PLATE XIII, FIG. 16 $.) 
Expands 1| inches. 
Head and body ash grey ; upper edge of tegulee edged with brown ; abdomen immaculate. Beneath 
brownish. 
*Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. V, p. 188 (1865). 
fSee page 93. 
