. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 123 is short, thick, rounded, and of a light green; .sometimes becoming light gray, and being finely speckled and banded with dark gray. The skin is so thin and delicate that the colors of the future butterfly which in two or three weeks escapes from it, may be distinctly seen. The male butterfly (Fig. .s2) is of a deep coppery-red on the upper side, bordered and powdered and marked with dark purplish- brown, as shown in the figure. The under side is o( nfenille morte brown with a greasy lustre, tlie scales being beautifully s
. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 123 is short, thick, rounded, and of a light green; .sometimes becoming light gray, and being finely speckled and banded with dark gray. The skin is so thin and delicate that the colors of the future butterfly which in two or three weeks escapes from it, may be distinctly seen. The male butterfly (Fig. .s2) is of a deep coppery-red on the upper side, bordered and powdered and marked with dark purplish- brown, as shown in the figure. The under side is o( nfenille morte brown with a greasy lustre, tlie scales being beautifully shingled transversely so as to remind one of that article of dry-goods which the ladies call rep : while the bands which commenced on the front wings above, may be traced further across the wing, and there is a transverse band on the hind wings, with an indistinct white spot near the upper edge. The female (Fig. 8:>) is of a lightjr color than the male, marked with purplish-brown as in the figure, the transverse bands being ([uite dis- tinctly defined with very dark brown. The under side is very much as in the male. INSKi'TS [ TO THE ( 5. ThP Abliot Spliinx. [77////v«,v AIM a, Swainsoii.]. This is another of the largo (irape-feeding insects, occurring on the cultivated and indige- nous vines and on the A'irginia Creeper, and hav- ing in the full-grown larva state, a polished tu- l)erclo instead of a horn at the tail. Its habitat is given by ] )r. Clemens, as New York, IVnnsylva- nia, (ieorgia, Massachusetts, and Ohio; but t hough not so common as the Sphinx Moths des- iribod in former articles, yet it is often met with l)0lh in Illinois and Missouri. The larva which is represented in the upper \y.\Y\ of Figure s \ va- ries considerably in appearance. Indeed, the ground-color seems to depend in a measure on the sex, for Dr. ^forris describes this larva as re(Mish-brown with numerous patches of lighi- green, and expressly states that the female is of a
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