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DEILEPHILA EUPHORBIiE. 



Spotted Elephant Hawk-Moth. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Sphingidae Lat. 



Tijpe of the Genus Sphinx Elpenor Linn. 



Deilephila Och. — Eumorphae Hub. — Spectrum Scop. — Sphinx Linn., Fab., 

 Haw. 



AntenncB inserted at the back part of the head close to and between the 

 'eyes, uncinated, longer and more robust in the males, subfusiform, co- 

 vered with scales above, each joint producing a row of cilia beneath 

 ( 1 a), the apex terminated by a long, subulated joint, producing a few 

 bristly scales ( 1) : subclavate and not ciliated beneath in the females. 

 Labrum short (2 a). 



Mandibles remote incurved, thickly ciliated internally (2 b). 

 Maxillce (forming the proboscis) long and spiral, (3, is a portion of 

 one, showing the base, the internal margins and the semicylindric 

 canal). 



Labial Palpi lying close to the head, broad when viewed in front, co- 

 vered with short close scales very much recurved and obtuse, 3-jointed, 

 basal joint long and quite bent, 2nd very large, subovate, 3rd tuberculi- 

 form, indistinct (4, the scales being removed to show the articulations). 

 Head trigonate. Eyes globose sometimes rather small. Abdomen conical, 



not tufted, in some very much attenuated. Wings, siqjerior trapezate- 



lanceolate; inferior rather small. Cilia short. Claws hooked distinct. 



Larvae with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal, and 2 anal feet : the tail sometimes 



wanting. 



EupHOKBi^ Linn. Faun. Suec. n. 1086. — Fab. Ent. Sijst. torn. 3. pars 1. 

 p. 367. 37.— Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 61. 8. 



Head and thorax olivaceous, margined with white. Abdomen rosy, 

 the back olivaceous, sides of the first 3 segments white, with intense 

 black spots upon the two first, and a white stripe on each side of the 

 3 following. Superior wings dull rosy, with a black and white spot at 

 their base ; the costa, a large spot attached near the base and another 

 towards the disk olivaceous, and a stripe arising from the interior 

 margin (which is white) and attenuated to the apex olivaceous also j 

 posterior margin rosy inclining to olive colour. Inferior wings deep 

 rose colour, white next the abdomen, black at their base, with a black 

 sinuated narrow fascia parallel to the posterior margin : cilia white. 

 Antennae white above, fuscous beneath. Legs white, anterior pair 

 fuscous on the under side. Beneath rose-coloured, a little spotted 

 with olive, with an obscure blackish spot in the centre of each of the 

 upper wings. 



The males have less black in the under wings than the females, and a 

 variety of the former sex lias occurred, with the fascia on the inferior 

 wings of a dark-rose colour instead of black. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



The Sphingidae or Crepuscularia have been divided into 3 tribes or 

 families bv Latreille ; the Hesperi-Sphinges, the Sphingides, and 



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