1 18 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



as the imago, in the autumn ; since which it has been very scarce : 

 also taken in Northumberland and Scotland." — W. C. Hewitson, 

 Esq. " Once near Bottisham in the winged state, and occasionally 

 in the larva state, near Cambridge." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Not 

 uncommon in Durham; once taken four miles at sea; a second 

 buzzing about a bee-hive." — Mr. J. 0. Backhouse. 



Genus XXV. — Sphinx Avdorum. 



Antennae rather elongate, gradually, but slightly increasing in thickness from 

 the base nearly to the apex, especially in the females ; the apex attenuated, 

 uncinated, and terminated by a scaly seta : palpi contiguous at their apex, 

 densely clothed with hair: maxillce very long: head large, subtrigonate : 

 ivings entire : bodtf thickly clothed with hair. Caterpillar smooth generally, 

 with obhque lateral stripes^ the horn smooth, incurved: pupa smooth, the 

 sheath of the maxillse always prominent, and detached. 



Sphinx differs from Acherontia by the superior length of its 

 maxillse and antennae, and by the comparative slenderness of its 

 body and wings ; the species are usually of great bulk, and have 

 the abdomen generally fasciated with brilliant colours, while the 

 wings are of sombre hues of brown and black, varied with cinereous 

 or white, and sometimes tinted with rosy : from Deilephila they 

 may be known by the same characters, and by the scaly setaceous 

 apex of their antennae. 



Sp. 1. Carolina. Alls fusco cinereoque variis, posticis fasciis 3 — ^fuscis, exte- 

 rioribus argute dentatis, abdomine maculis luteis decern aut duodecim. (Exp. 

 alar. unc. 4 — 8 hn.) 



Sp. Carolina. Linne. — Curtis, v. pi. 197. — Steph. Catal. 



Anterior wings brown, varied with cinereous, with several dark brown zigzag 

 and undulated strigae, and a whitish one towards the hinder margin ; in the 

 centre of the disc, towards the costa, is a white spot edged with black : the 

 posterior wings are pale fuscous, with three or four darker bands, the outer 

 one strongly dentated, and the space between it and the margin sometimes of 

 a deep brown : cilia of all the wings brown, spotted with whitish : thorax 

 yellowish brown, transversely strigated with black anteriorly, with a black 

 spot on each side behind: abdomen brown, with five or six orange spots 

 edged with dark brown on each side, the spots diminishing to the apex. 



Caterpillar, according to Abbot, green, with white lateral stripes and a pink 

 tail : it feeds on potato, tobacco, &c. Although this fine insect has been re- 

 peatedly taken in England, it unquestionably cannot be considered as in- 

 digenous, and ought to be rigidly excluded from our cabinets, otherwise the 

 most perplexing consequences must inevitably arise, to the total confusion of 



