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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
which give it while on the wing a bee-like look. The habits of the 
insect are much the same as the preceding. The larva feeds on the 
leaves of the bush honeysuckle and it makes a clumsy cocoon of 
leaves and sticks on the ground under the bushes. 
Deilepliila cliamoeiierii. 
Deilepliila chamcenerii expands two and a half inches and is boldly 
and prettily marked. The body is olive-green above, with a white 
line along the sides of the head and thorax, and white and black 
spots with a pinkish shade on the sides of the abdomen. The fore 
wings are dark olive-green or greenish-brown, with an irregular buff 
stripe extending from the lower margin of the wing near the body 
to the tip; the outer margin is bordered by a band of gray. The 
lower wings are black, with a wide pink band extending across them 
with a white spot next the inner margin. This insect, although ap¬ 
parently not so common as the following species, is quite widely dis¬ 
tributed. It may be seen early of a summer evening about the flowers 
of the evening primrose and the petunia, and is often so intent on its 
repast as to allow itself to be closely approached. The larva is 
unknown to me, but is described by Packard as “ bronze-green, dull red 
beneath, with nine round cream-colored spots, pupilled with black, 
and having a dull red caudal horn.” It feeds on the leaves of the 
willow herb. 
Deilepliila lineata expands from three and a half to four inches and 
is one of our prettiest sphinx moths, its close fitting scales and 
spindle-shaped body with the abdomen ending in a pointed tuft of 
hairs, giving it a trim and neat appearance. It is colored much 
