The Moths and Butterflies 
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The beautiful little Ampelophaga myron, with soft red-brown hind wings 
and brownish-gray fore wings, patterned as shown in Fig. 624, has a pea- 
green, cream-banded, and yellow and lilac spotted larva known as the hog- 
caterpillar of the vine, so named from its form—the third and fourth seg¬ 
ments being greatly swollen, the head and first two segments small—and 
its destructiveness to grape-vines. When ready to pupate it spins a brown 
silken open-meshed cocoon on the ground under leaves or other rubbish. 
Fig. 625.—The double-eyed sphinx, Smerinthus geminatus, above; Paonias exccecatus, 
in middle; and P. myops, below. (After Lugger; natural size.) 
A. versicolor (PI. I, Fig. 3) is a beautiful cousin of myron with greenish 
overlaid on the brown. An extremely slim, slender-bodied, and slender¬ 
winged sphinx is Chcerocampa (Theretra) tersa (PI. VIII, Fig. 2), found in the 
northern states. It is very swift. An abundant and familiar hawk-moth found 
all over the United States is the white-lined sphinx, Deilephila lineata (PI. VIII, 
Fig. 1). Its caterpillar feeds on various plants, as grape, apple, watermelon, 
buckwheat, turnip, and purslane; the latter seems to be the preferred plant. 
