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SESIA BOMBYLIFOllMIS. 

 Narrow- bordered Bee Sesia. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Sphingidse Lat. 



Type of the Genus Sphinx fuciforrais Linn. 



Sesia Fab. Sphinx Linn., Fab., Lat., Haw. 



Antennce composed of many joints, with the club prismatic, 



slightly hooked, terminated at the apex by an oblique, slender 



style of two joints; those of the male ciliated • beneath (1. the 



terminal joints), of the female more cylindric, simple. (2.) 



Labrum andl .. i j . ,i i 



M till fattached to the clypeus. 



Maxilla very long and spiral. 



Palpi 2, meeting over the maxillae (7.) ; projecting a little beyond 

 the head, completely covered with hairy scales (4.) ; 3-jointed, 

 first joint short, second long, robust, curved upward, third very 

 minute. (4. a.) 

 Abdomen hairy, with the apex bearded. Wings more or less transparent, 

 horizontal or dejlexed in repose ; with a hook or catch at the exterior 

 ed(je of the lower wings to retain those above. 

 Caterpillars with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal, and 2 anal feet, with an ele- 

 vated Jiorn at the extremity of the abdomen . 



BoMBYLiFORMis Esper Schmet. 2. t. 23. /. 2. Fab. Ent. Syst. t. 3. 

 pars I. p. 382. n. 12. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 68. n. 16. 



Golden green, 2d and 3d segments of abdomen nearly black, most 

 intense on the sides : 4th and 5 th bright orange : beard to the 

 abdomen black, orange in the centre. Wings transparent, iri- 

 descent, the superior with the costa, posterior margin, and the 

 base extending along the interior margin brown ; inferior with the 

 abdominal margin and a narrow fimbria also brown : beneath pale 

 yellow and black. Antennse cyaneous. Tarsi fuscous. 



Ln the Author s and other Cabinets. 



The beautiful transparent wings of this Genus at once distin- 

 guish it from Macroglossum, to which it is most nearly allied ; 

 whilst the ovate and hairy abdomens and sphinx-like form (as 

 well as the tailed Caterpillars) are sufficiently obvious characters 

 to separate it from (Egeria. 



S. bomhyliformls may be easily distinguished from the more 



