53. 

 ^GERIA ICHNEUMONIFORMIS. 



The Six-belted Clear-wing. 



Order Lepidoptera. Pam. Zygsenides Lat. Zygsenidse Leach. 



Type of the Genus Sphinx culiciformis Lirm. 



^GERiA Fab., Leach. Sesia Fab., Lat., Lasp. Trochilium Scop. 



Sphinx lAnn. 



AntenncB composed of numerous joints (about 30), 1st large, 



cylindric, following short ; very slender at the base, gradually 



increasing in size nearly to the apex, which is terminated by a 



small slender joint, from which arises a tuft or plume (fig. 1.); 



covered with scales and strongly ciliated in the males (2.) 



Labnmi and 1 . . i i . ,i , 



1^ 7y7 >attachea to the clypeus. 



Maxilla long, slender, spiral. 



Labial Palpi longer than the head, divaricating (7. a.) acuminated 



reflexed, thickly covered with scales and long hairs, the terminal 



joint being less clothed than the rest (4.); 3-jointed, 1st joint 



small, 3nd long, slightly attenuated, 3rd shorter than the 2nd, and 



more slendei', attenuated (4. a.) 



Clypeus convex covered loith close fiat scales. Eyes distant. Ocelli 3, 



placed near to the eyes on the crown of the head (7. b.) Abdomen 



cylindric, composed of 8 segments, terminated by a beard more or less 



developed, trilobed. Feet, anterior the longest, posterior the shortest. 



Tibiffi spined. Tarsi ^-jointed, terminal joint with very minute claws. 



Wings generally transparent, strongly ciliated. 



ICHNEUMONIFORMIS Fab. Eut. Syst. t. 3. pars 1. p. 385. n. 22. Las- 

 peyres' Sesiee Furoptea, p. 16. n. 9.f. 3. & 4. Vespiformis Ifaw. 

 Lep. Brit. p. 70. n. 23. 



Greenish black. Antennae towards the centre above ochraceous, 

 furruginous beneath, except 2 or 3 joints at the base, and a jjor- 

 tion of the apex which are black. Clypeus, posterior margin of 

 head, 2 spots at the base of the wings, sides of the thorax, 5 or 6 

 bands across the abdomen at nearly equal distances, and 2 longi- 

 tudinal tufts at the apex yellow. Palpi and legs orange, the 

 former having a few blackish scales ; the latter with the thighs, 

 base of tibife, and a spot near their extremities black. Wings 

 trans])arent ; the costal margin, a lunidated spot near the disk, 

 cilise and margin of wings, nerves, and a triangular spot on the 

 margin of the inferior wings, orange-brown ; posterior margin and 

 apex of superior wings orange, the centre of the latter being trans- 

 parent. The male differs from the female in having a more slen- 

 der body with 7 bands ; antennse above with a very small portion 

 of the centre pale ochraceous. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. llaworth and the Author. 



