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Body covered with small prickles. 
With seven oblique whitish lines on the sides. 7 
Without these lines. 
With a sub-dorsal white line. 8 
Without this line. 
With seven black stigmatal points. 9 
Without these points...10 
1 — Macrosila cingulata. —Body blackish brown; a crimson dorsal 
line which contains a few diamond shaped blackish-brown patches 
on the anterior part of the body; a crimson sub-dorsal line and a 
wavy yellowish stigmatal line, which sends off just above the spira¬ 
cles short curved dashes; anal horn short, brownish, the sides white; 
head yellowish with two brownish dashes on each side. 
Feeds on the Sweet-potato. Enters the earth. (Abbott & Smith.) 
2— Darapsa versicolor.— Body green or pinkish brown; sometimes 
a dark dorsal line; a sub-dorsal line extends from the mouth to the 
upper part of the eyes, and thence backward to the rear of seg¬ 
ment 4; a similar line runs obliquely from lower part of segment 
4 under and including the stigmatal point, upward and backward 
to the rear of segment 5; this is followed by 5 other and parallel 
lines, each beginning and ending one segment farther back, except 
the last, which extends across three segments up to the base of the 
anal horn; there are faint indications of other lines at the lower 
part of segments 10 and 11; anal horn black in front and at the 
end, and red at the sides, or greenish in front and behind and 
white at the sides; spiracles red; head somewhat triangular, yel¬ 
lowish or light green; length 8 inches. Feeds on the Swamp Button- 
bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis ). June to August. Spins a cocoon. 
(G. D. Hulst.) 
3 — Macrosila Carolina. —Body green, wrinkled transversely, dotted 
with white, the dots situated on the wrinkles; the wrinkles on the 
posterior two-thirds of the body are sometimes dark colored; some¬ 
times an interrupted white line below the spiracles not extending 
upon the first 3 segments; on either side of each segment, from 4 
to 10 inclusive, is an oblique white stripe, which is sometimes edged 
above with blackish, the stripe on segment 10 extending on seg¬ 
ment 11 to the base of the anal horn; on each side of segment 11 
is sometimes a short white stripe ; anal horn black, sometimes blue 
on each side at the base; spiracles black encircled with dark brown, 
those on segment 1 encircled with whitish; venter green, dotted with 
white; head smooth, light blue; length 4 inches. Feeds on the 
Tomato and Ground Cherry ( Physalis pnbescens). July to September. 
Enters the earth. (D. W. Coquillett.) 
