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Thyreus abbottii, Fabr. 
Fig. 17.—Thyreus abbottii. Moth and larva. 
General color, reddish-brown. Its markings are variable, being 
sometimes marked with numerous light green patches, and at others 
with pale reddish-brown, with transverse striae and a dorsal line of 
darker brown; also, a dark line along the side. No caudal horn, 
but instead thereof a polished tubercle. It feeds on the Grape-vine 
and the Yirginia-creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia ). 
Deilephila lineata, Fabr. 
Fig. 18.—Deilephila lineata. Larva. 
Color usually yellowish-green, with a subdorsal row of elliptical 
crimson spots, bordered below by a pale yellow line and surrounded 
with black. Another form of the larva is black, with a yellow dorsal 
line and a series of pale yellow spots and darker dots in the sub¬ 
dorsal region. 
The stomata are yellow, black, or red surrounded with black. Caudal 
horn present. Length, when full-grown, three inches. Feeds usually 
on the common purslane, but has been found on apple, grape, water¬ 
melon and turnip leaves ; also, on buckwheat. 
The moth has dark olive-green fore-wings, and expands over four 
inches. 
