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Yellow-banded Day-sphinx
The head and thorax are pale yellow, the latter obscured with brownish hairs about the middle. The abdomen is black with the basal segment about the middle and the preterminal segment on either side pale yellow. The fore wings on the upper side are blackish, crossed by an oblique whitish band. The hind wings are deep black, crossed by a broad orange-yellow band. The fore wings on the under side are bright orange-yellow at the base.
This is always a rare insect in collections. It ranges, so far as is known, through British America, and southward and eastward to Maine and Massachusetts. It is found in very early summer hovering over flowers.