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Rh 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 CHIONANTHI.

PLATE V. Fig. 2.

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