. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Sphingidae "telescoping" into one niiother, and the anterior portion nf tiic bodv being often raised, as illustrated in Plate I, Figure i. It is alleged that the habit of assuming this posture, suggesting a reseinblance to the Egyptian Sphinx, prompted the application ofthenameto these creatures. The larva; are not gregarious, but feed solitarily upon tiieir appropriate food-plants. Some forms pupate in a cell deep under the soil, others spin a loose cocoon among da
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Sphingidae "telescoping" into one niiother, and the anterior portion nf tiic bodv being often raised, as illustrated in Plate I, Figure i. It is alleged that the habit of assuming this posture, suggesting a reseinblance to the Egyptian Sphinx, prompted the application ofthenameto these creatures. The larva; are not gregarious, but feed solitarily upon tiieir appropriate food-plants. Some forms pupate in a cell deep under the soil, others spin a loose cocoon among damp fallen leaves and pupate at the sur- face. The pup?e are as remarkable as the larvae. A few genera have the proboscis enclosed in a sheath which is separate along the greater portion of its course from the adjacent wall of the body. This is illustrated in Figure Fig. 22.—Pupa of Protoparce quinqucinacitlatits. (.\flcr Riley.) The Hawkmoths of the United States and Canada fall into five subfamilies, the Acheronliiinv, the ADibiilicince, the Sesiince, the Philampelincv, and the Chocrocanipincv. SUBFAMILY ACHHRONTllNy^ Genus HERSE Oken (i) Herse cingulata Fabricius, Plate VI, Fig. 3, 6 , (The Pinkspotted Hawkmolh.) Syn. convolvuli, Mcnun; affiiiis Goeze; drurcvi Donovan; pun^ens Eschsh(jltz; decolora Henry Edwards. This large and elegant hawkmoth, the larva of which feeds upon sweet-potato vines and various other Convolvitlacccv, has been confounded by writers with H. convolvuli Linnicus, which it resembles, but from which it is abundantly distinct. Tlie latter species is confined to the old world. H. Li'tiguliifa. the only species of the genus occurring in the western hemisphere, ranges from Canada to northern Patagonia, and is also found in the Calapagos and Sandwich Islands. 1 have a specimen taken at sea in the Atlantic, five hundred miles from the nearest land. 43. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitall
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