SPHINX CHIONANTHI. 10 1 
just named found the caterpillars spin themselves 
up on the 21st July, and come out in the perfect 
state on the 15th August; others of them spun on 
the 11th September, and the fly came out on the 
9th May. This hawkmoth is not very common in 
Georgia, but may sometimes be observed sucking 
the gourd blossoms in autumn. 
SPHINX CHIONAXTHI. 
PLATE V. Fig. 2. 
Atbot and Smith, Lepid. Geor., i. pi. 34 Sphinx rustica, FciLr. 
Cramer, Pap. ExoU, t. 301, f. A. 
This conspicuous and curiously marked insect is 
another fine example of the sphinges of the New 
World. The ground colour is a rich brown, the 
surface variously marked and mottled with white. 
The base of the fore wings is of the latter colour ; 
there is then a transverse bar of the same before the 
middle, from which the inner margin of the wing is 
broadly white, that colour blending at the posterior 
extremity with another broad waved stripe from 
the anterior border a little beyond the middle ; the 
brown semicircular space in the middle of the wing 
