374 Madame Merian's Insect s, <$•€,) of Surinam, 



Plate 62. With a bad figure of the papaya (Carica Papdi/a 

 L.), we have six poor figures of two species of *Sphin^, evi- 

 denl§f distinct, but which cannot be ascertained, unless, 

 perhaps, by those who may capture the larvae. 



Plate 63. Above are three figures of some Saturni«, the 

 hairs of whose larva are said to have caused on her hands 

 the most painful irritation, which subsided on the use of oil. 

 Below are three rude figures of what is said to be the Hespe- 

 ria Proteus Fabr. 256. Gmel. 2362. A branch of the coco 

 tree is stuck in the ground, and, by means of much dis- 

 tortion and alteration, is at length made to represent a cap- 

 sicum bush more than any thing else in nature. Though the 

 pericarp is not very large or heavy, Flora in this most 

 precious tree only suspends the fruit on the trunk and larger 

 branches, and the frail and delicate blossoms have a singular ap- 

 pearance as they start (like the marble snowdrop in its chilling 

 bed) from the moss-clad, rough, and unsightly bark. The 

 plate is worthless. 



Plate 64. On another poor sketch of the papaya we have 

 six figures of two doubtful Sphingidce ; the lower one has been 

 said to be the *S^phin.r caricae Fabr. 67. Gmel. 2379. 



Plate 65. On a branch of some Citrus are three figures of 

 i56mbyx Hesperus Fabr. 2. Gmel. 2401., all worthless. 



Plate 66. The insects are, perhaps, Mantis siccifblia Fabr. 24. 

 Gmel. 2049. See also Mantis precaria Fabr. 32. Gmel. 2050. 

 The triangular mass beneath, on which are seen eggs and 

 young, I suspect to be a fungus, and not the collection of 

 eggs ; for though in this genus there is no egg-cell (loculus), 

 as in the J51attadae, the ova are always deposited in some 

 determined and tolerably regular shape and group. The 

 quadruped is the Didelphis dorsigera Gmel., with its young, 

 rather too fancifully mounted all together on the parent's 

 back. 



Plate 67. On a branch of the cultivated fig we have three 

 figures of an undetermined Papilio of a group, the larvae of 

 which have cervical, elongate, retractile osmateria, or scent 

 vessels : in this species they are said to imitate the anal 

 mastigia (or whips) of other larvae, and to give a painful 

 wound, but I doubt the fact. There are also three figures of an 

 unknown moth, remarkable for the spiny process of the pupa. 



Plate 68. Above are six figures of two small undetermined 

 moths, and below four coarse ones of Papilio Telemachus 

 Fabr. 269. Gmel. 2245. 



Plate 69. A rude figure of the crocodile of Surinam, which 

 is said, without probability, to arrive there at the length of 



