. The American entomologist and botanist. ther with the head, arc retractedinto the yo»r</(, and Mr. J. A. Lintnerf makesthe same false assertion. It is the third seg-ment in this species, as well as in the AchemonSphinx, which is so much swollen, and intowhich the head and first two segments are re-tracted. When about to transform, the larva of ourSatellite Sphinx outers a short distance into theground, and soon works off its caterpillar-skiiiand becomes a chrysalis of a deep chcstnut- • Synopsis of N. A. Lepidoptcra, p. Ent. Soc. Ihil., III., p. UiO. 90 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIS
. The American entomologist and botanist. ther with the head, arc retractedinto the yo»r</(, and Mr. J. A. Lintnerf makesthe same false assertion. It is the third seg-ment in this species, as well as in the AchemonSphinx, which is so much swollen, and intowhich the head and first two segments are re-tracted. When about to transform, the larva of ourSatellite Sphinx outers a short distance into theground, and soon works off its caterpillar-skiiiand becomes a chrysalis of a deep chcstnut- • Synopsis of N. A. Lepidoptcra, p. Ent. Soc. Ihil., III., p. UiO. 90 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. brown, and very much of the same form as thatof the Achemon Sphinx, flgiired in our last num-ber. The moth (Fig. 59) makes its appearancein June of the following jear, though it hasbeen known to issue the same year that it had pose of crawling out; usually,however, it sim-ply projects the front part of its body andcrawls about without entirely quitting the case—carrjing its house with are various things i-ecommended as a. Colors—Light olive-sray anfl dark olive-green. existed as larva. In this last event, it doubtlessbecomes barren, like others under similar cir-cumstances, as was shown in our last number(p. 55). The colors of the moth are light olive-gray, variegated as in the figure with darkolive-green. The worms are easily subdued byhand-picking. SOUTHERN NOTES. BY J. PARISH STELLE, SAVANNAH, TENN. Clotues-Moths.—We have several species ofclothes-moths at the South, some of which workall through the winter as far up as Corinth,Miss. They are all troublesome enough, butthe individual most to be dreaded is of a lightbutf color {Tinea vestianella,* Steph.), thoughwe have another almost as bad (Tinea tafet-zella, Linn.), that is nearly black, with the tipsof its larger wings white, or pale gray. These moths generally lay their eggs on thewoolen or fur articles they intend to destroy;and when the larva appears it begins to eat im-mediately, making sad work i
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