448 Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of 



containing the genera Macroglossa, Ochs. and Sesia 9 Fab. the 

 second those of Trochilium, Scop, and JEgcria, Fab. Och- 

 senheimer comprehends the whole in the two former genera; 

 but two out of the six species which he places under Macro- 

 glossa, namely S. Fuciformis and Bombyliformis, Stephens 

 arranges with his Sesia. Latreille observes (Nouv. Diet. 

 oVHist. Nat, xxxi. 105.), that " Scopoli separated from the 

 Sphinges, properly so called, certain species which have the 

 abdomen terminated by a tuft, and of them he formed his 

 genus Macroglossum. Other naturalists united them to the 

 Sesia?. Fabricius, in his Sy sterna Glossatorum*, comprehends 

 under the latter generic name only those species (i. e. the Ma- 

 croglossa of Scopoli) ; our Sesia being considered by him as 

 forming the genus JEgeria. M. Ochsenheimer, in his work on 

 the Lepidoptera of Europe, has, with reason, rejected this ar- 

 rangement, and in that respect his opinion and mine coin- 

 cide." — Latr. 1. c. 



Species. Icon. 



1. S. Apiformis, Linn.f Ernst, III. PI. XCI. f. 121. a. b. 



2. — Bcmbiciformis, *) Hubn. Sphing. Tab. 20. f. 98. 



Hubn.f (Crabro- > (fcem.) Lewin, Linn. Trans. 

 niformis, Steph.) J III. PI. I. f. 6—10. 



3. Asiliformis, Fab.J ... Ernst, III. PI. XC. f. 119. a. b. 



4. S. Rhin- 



* Where is that work to be met with ? — C. 



•j* Trochilium, Stephens. The first genus of his family iEgeriidae, which 

 he thus characterizes : — " Fam. IV. iEGERIIDiE." " Antenna: fusiform, a 

 little curved, ciliated in the males, the apex terminating in a plume of 

 scales : ocelli two, minute, placed between the antennae and the base of the 

 thorax : palpi elongate, thickly clothed with scales and long hairs, the last 

 joint elongate : abdomen cylindric, tufted at the apex : wings horizontally 

 displayed, generally naked, with the tips above opaque : larva sub-cylindric, 

 hirsute, tail-less : pupa elongate, with a row of spines on each segment ; 

 changes in the interior of plants." — Must. Brit. Entom. I. 136. 



The generic characters of Trochilium are detailed as follows : 



" Genus 29. TROCHILIUM, Scopoli. 



Antenna short, more or less serrated, especially in the males, stout, gradu- 

 ally incrassated nearly to the apex, which is curved, acuminated, and 

 terminates in a hairy tuft : palpi moderately long, parallel, suddenly 

 recurved, the base very hairy, the apex scaly and attenuated : head 

 small : clypeus densely clothed with elongate hairs : thorax and abdo- 

 men stout, the latter with a very small tuft at its apex : wings with 

 the tips not clothed transversely with scales." — Steph. 1. c. p. 137- 

 % jEgeria, Stephens.—" Genus 30. .EGERIA, Fabricius. 



Antenna long, slender, gradually increasing in size nearly to the apex, which 

 is slightly curved and acuminated; in the males they are slightly cili- 

 ated, sub-serrated, or pectinated : palpi longer than the head, divari- 

 cating, gradually reflexed, thickly clothed beneath with scales and 

 long hair ; the terminal joint somewhat naked and acuminated : head 



moderate ; 



