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Macrosila 5-maculata, Haw. — The Five-Spotted Sphinx, or 
Tomato-worm Moth.' 
The caterpillar of this species is similar to the preceding; green, 
from three to five inches long, with oblique yellow stripes on the 
sides of the body. It feeds upon the same class of plants as the pre¬ 
ceding, such as tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco, etc. Like that species it 
goes into the ground when full grown, and changes to a brown chry¬ 
salis, but the tongue case is longer than that of the tobacco worm. 
The moth is about the same size as the Carolina Sphinx, and similar¬ 
ly marked, but may generally be distinguished from that species by 
there being no white spot at the base of the fore wings, and two dis¬ 
tinct angulated bands on the hind wings. 
Remedies. —Whatever will apply as a remedy for the Carolina 
Sphinx, will be as efficient with this species. 
JEGERIDiE. 
A small but interesting family of moths that in the perfect or 
winged state resemble some of the Sphingulse , but they may be known 
by their narrow and mostly transparent wings, bearing much resem¬ 
blance to wasps or hornets. Most of the species are furnished 
with a tuft of hair at the extremity of the body wffiich they can 
spread out, fan-like, at pleasure. They fly only in the day time, and 
seem to enjoy the hottest sunshine. The palpi project beyond the 
head, divergent, basal joints hairy. Antennae longer than half the 
length of the fore wings, rather increasing in size from the base nearly 
to the tip, which is curved but not horned, pectinate in the males. 
The larvae are borers, living mostly in the stems and roots of plants. 
They are whitish, soft, slightly downy, more or less flattened on the 
under side, have sixteen feet, but no anal horn. 
When full grown they transform inside the stems or roots that have 
furnished them food, into rather long, brown chrysalids inside of ob¬ 
long oval cocoons made of the detritus of their passages, which is ce¬ 
mented together with a gummj secretion. The edges of the abdomi¬ 
nal segments are armed with transverse rows of short teeth, by means 
of which they work their way partially through the hole previousl}? - 
made by the larvae for exit when about io transform to moths. 
iEc4ERiA exitiosa, Say—The Peach-tree Borer. 
The most widely spread of all these iEgrians, known wherever 
peach-trees are grown, is the Peach-tree Borer. In their general hab¬ 
its they resemble other wood-boring insects in that they live on the 
