298 NOTODONTIXA [sphinx 



1. S. pinastri, L. 70-75 mm. Forewings dark grey, closely 

 irrorated witli white, and sprinkled with black ; three or four 

 black dashes in disc ; median and second lines broad, darker, 

 often very indistinct, strongly curved ; sometimes a white discal 

 dot ; an oblique black apical line ; cilia white, blackish-barred. 

 Hind wings dark grey, more blackish-grey terminally ; cilia as 

 in forewings. 



Kent to Edinburgh, a scarce casual only, but apparently 

 naturalised in Suffolk ; N. and C. Europe, N. America ; 6, 7. 

 Larva green ; dorsal line red-brown, irregular, edged by whitish 

 or yellowish lines ; lateral white ; spiracular series of white 

 blotches, spiracles orange-red ; subspiracular yellowish ; horn 

 black - dotted : on Pi?ius abies and P. sylvestris ; 8, 9. This 

 species is sometimes very destructive to pine -forests on the 

 Continent. 



2. S. ligustri, L. 90-110 mm. Forewings light brown, 

 whitish-sprinkled ; veins in disc finely black, with three stronger 

 black interneural streaks ; first, median, and second lines 

 obscurely darker, angulated above middle ; lower half of median 

 band suffused with dark brown, connected by a narrower suffusion 

 with an oblique black apical streak, above which is a whitish 

 suffusion ; three whitish subterminal striae, and a blackish line 

 after first. Hindwings pale whitish-rosy, termen brownish ; 

 three black fasciae. 



England, Lanark, common ; C. and S. Europe, WC. and N. 

 Asia; 6. Larva green; on 5-11 a series of oblique lateral 

 stripes, white below and purple above ; spiracles yellow ; horn 

 black, beneath yellow : on Ligustrum, ash, holly, etc. ; 8, 9. 



3. S. convolvuli, L. 95-118 mm. Forewings dark grey, 

 whitish-sprinkled, with darker dentate striae ; two black inter- 

 neural streaks in disc ; an irregular black oblique apical line. 

 Hindwings grey, whitish-sprinkled, darker terminally; base, 

 anterior and subterminal fasciae, and two cloudy subconfluent 

 postmcdian lines blackish. 



Britain to the Shetlands, Ireland, uncommon, probably not 

 usually resident ; Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, 

 America (varying slightly geographically) ; 8, 9. Larva green 

 or brown, lighter or darker, sometimes closely streaked or 

 i-eticulated ; often two dorsal blackish lines or series of spots ; 

 on 5-11 often a series of oblique lateral white, dark, or blackish 

 stripes ; sometimes a spiracular series of blackish spots ; sub- 

 spiracular line sometimes whitish; horn blackish or ferruginous ; 

 head usually ochreous or ferruginous : on Convolvulus ; 7. 



