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Sp. 3. Convolvuli. Alls cincreis, antici.i fusco nlgroquc nehulosis, posticis 

 nifrro Jasciatis, abdo?nine cinguHs airis ruhrmjuc albo marginatis. (Exp. 

 alar. S 4 unc. 4 — 6 lin. ? i unc. 6 — 8 lin.) 



Sp. Convolvuli. Linnr. — Don. vii. pi. 228, 229. — Steph. Catal. 



Anterior wings cinereous clouded with fuscous and black, with several straight 

 and zigzag streaks of the latter colour, the fringe white, interrupted with 

 brown : posterior wings with four irregular black bands, the basal one short 

 and oblique, the others nearly parallel with each other, and with the hinder 

 margin : the fringe as before : head ash-coloured : thorax deep ash, with 

 obsolete dark lines: behind with an ovate bluish spot, posteriorly edged with 

 black, and a red spot adjoining: abdomen deep cinereous, with about five 

 segments white at the base, then red, and margined with black, giving the 

 appearance of five tricoloured belts, interrupted on the back. 



our inquiries into the geographical distribution of insects. If this be admitted, 

 as well might the "noble monarch of the forest," because a captive lioness 

 which had escaped from her prison was retaken on Salisbury Plain. 



Of Sp. C^arolina a single specimen, called Sp. 5 — maculatus in Mr. Wilkin's 

 Catalogue, is now in Mr. Vigors' cabinet, and two in that of Mr. Curtis, 

 which were taken in England ; and I also possess a pair. Its true locaUty is 

 North America. 



Sp. 2. Quinquemaculatus. Alls cinereo fuscoque nebuhsis, jMsticis fasciis 3 — !■ 

 fuscis, exthnd integi-d, abdomine maculis lutcis decern. (Exp. alar. 4 unc. 

 8 lin.) 



Sp. Quinquemaculatus. Haworth. — Steph. Catal. Sp. Carolina. Donovan, xi. 

 pi. 361. 



Anterior wings clouded with cinereous and brown, with several undulated black 

 strigae, a broader flexuous one on the hinder margin, between which and the 

 margin is a broad pale cinereous fascia, gradually shaded into the brown at 

 the apex of the wing ; the margin itself is brown : posterior pale cinereous, 

 with three or four brown fascia;, of which the outer is broadest and entire, 

 and the inner dentated ; the hinder margin is also brown ; abdomen pale 

 cinereous, with five orange spots edged with black on each side. 



The native place of this insect is also North America, and I believe that it is the 

 second species which feeds on the potato, tobacco, &c. alluded to by Abbot, who, 

 in his remarks upon Sp. Carolina, says, " There is reason to suspect two species 

 of this fly; at least a great variety of colours is observable in both sexes." 

 Four, if not more, specimens have been found in England : the first was taken 

 at Chelsea, and was in Mr. Drury's cabinet, now in the possession of Mr. 

 Donovan ; a second in Mr. Haworth's collection, taken near the same place ; 

 one in Mr. Atkinson's cabinet, found in the caterpillar state at Leeds, and the 

 fourth in my own ; but no doubt all were imported ; and the simple fact of 

 Mr. Atkinson's specimen having been reared from the larva is not iniUcativc 

 of the native origin of the species. 



