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The Moths and Butterflies 
Best known of all the hawk-moths, both in larval and adult stage, are 
the five-spotted sphinges, the tomato- and tobacco-worm moths, Phlege- 
thontius quinquemaculata (<celeus) and P. sexta (Carolina ) (PL VIII, Fig. 3). 
Fig. 623. —Larva of Pholus achemon. (After Soule; natural size.) 
Quinquemaculata is the commoner in the north, sexta in the south; in both 
the larva (Figs. 620 and 621) is green with oblique white stripes on the side 
and a long sharp caudal horn, and feeds on tomato-, tobacco-, and potato- 
leaves or jimson-weed. The horn of sexta is red, 
that of quinquemaculata green or blue-black. 
The pupas are long and slender and dark 
brown (green at first), and are often found when 
plowing or digging up fields in which these plants 
have been grown. The moth of P. quinquemaculata 
has ashy-gray wings, with zigzag markings, while 
the wings of sexta are not thus marked. The 
great pandorus sphinx, Pholus (Philampelus) 
pandorus (PL I, Fig. 1), found in the eastern 
and central states, is one of the most beautiful 
of all moths. The larvae feed on grape-vines 
and Virginia creeper, and, measuring four inches 
long when full-grown, are rich reddish brown 
with five conspicuous cream-colored spots along 
Fig. 624. — Grape - vine each side; a shining black eye-like tubercle takes 
sphinx - moth, Ampelo- p} ace 0 f a caudal horn. It pupates under- 
phaga myron. (Natural r 1 . \ 
size.) ground. P. achemon (rig. 622), with markings 
much like pandorus , but with strong rosy color¬ 
ation instead of greenish, has a larva which also feeds on grape and Vir- 
gina creeper and may be recognized by its six (instead of five) lateral 
cream-colored blotches. 
