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DESCRIPTION AND HABITS OF A SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVA OF THE GENUS SPHINX

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Thomas G. Gentry
Thomas G. Gentry
Affiliation:
Germantown, PA.
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Des.–Body cylindrical, tapering gradually anteriorly, 12-jointed, exclusive of head. Head sub-elliptical, thickly punctured, moderately pubescent and of a yellwish brown color. Oral appendages largely developed. Antennæ 3-jointed, cylindrical, acuminate, the basal joint very long and quite thick. A dark purplish curved band passes from the crown of the head to the right antenna. Prothorecic segment surmounted by a transversely elongated, punctated, corneous saddle, concolorous with the head.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , March 1874 , pp. 41 - 43
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1874

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