Fifth report of the United States Entomological Commission, being a revised and enlarged edition of Bulletin no7, on insects injurious to forest and shade trees . blueline. There is a black line running from each corner of the raoutli to the summit ofthe head and there they meet one another. The head is rounded, somewhat conical,flattened in front. The length of the full-grown larva is 2f to 3 inches. 89. Harriss pine hawk-moth. Ellema harrisii (Clemens). (Larva, Plate xi, tig. 5.) A grass-green caterpillar with no caudal horn, but a caudal plate granulated andedged with white, with yellow sub
Fifth report of the United States Entomological Commission, being a revised and enlarged edition of Bulletin no7, on insects injurious to forest and shade trees . blueline. There is a black line running from each corner of the raoutli to the summit ofthe head and there they meet one another. The head is rounded, somewhat conical,flattened in front. The length of the full-grown larva is 2f to 3 inches. 89. Harriss pine hawk-moth. Ellema harrisii (Clemens). (Larva, Plate xi, tig. 5.) A grass-green caterpillar with no caudal horn, but a caudal plate granulated andedged with white, with yellow subdorsal and lateral bands, and a white stripe bor-dering the stigmata ; becoming fully fed and leaving the white pine about the mid-dle of September, the pupa subterranean, and the moth appearing about the middleof June in New York. (Lintner.) PINE SPHINGES. 769 The diflferent pine hawk-moths are of little economic importance, asthey are of great rarity both in the caterpillar and moth states ; butfrom a scientific point of view these moths present much the pines, we have found the young larvae on the spruce, late inAugust, at Brunswick,
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