120 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



The female has the anterior wings less clouded, and the posterior of a deeper 

 colour. 



Caterpillar very variable^ green spotted with black, or brown, with the back 

 darkest, generally with dark ochraceous yellow oblique lateral stripes ; the 

 stigmata sometimes black, at others pink ; horn dusky or brown : it feeds on 

 the greater and lesser bindweed ( Convolvuli sepium et arvensis); changes to a 

 rich shining brown pupa, with a long recurved sheath for its proboscis, about 

 July, and the imago appears about the middle of September. 



Sp. Convolvuli has hitherto been esteemed a rare insect in 

 Britain, but it occurs in every part of the country, specimens 

 having been captured at Caithness, Dover, Margate, Brighton, 

 Penzance, Kingsbridge, South Wales, Norfolk, and in several of 

 the inland counties ; its appearance near London cannot be con- 

 sidered uncommon, and last September several were captured at 

 Walworth, Camberwell, and near Hammersmith ; some years since 

 I had a specimen brought to me which was taken on a lamp-post in 



Sp. 4. Drursei. Alls cinereo fuscoque nebulosis, anticis lineolis duabus mediis 

 strigisque aliquot nigris, posiicis roseis fasciis tribus nigris; abdomine cinereo 

 fasciis lateralibus roseis nigrisque alternis. (Exp. alar. 3 unc. 11 Hn. — 4 unc. 

 4lin.) 



Sph. Drurffii. Donovan, xiv.pl. 469. Steph. Catal. 



A beautiful insect, at first sight resembling Sp. ConvolvuU or Ligustri: the 

 anterior wings cinereous clouded with brown, with several undulated black 

 strigae disposed in pairs, an irregular zigzag streak at the apex, and two 

 strong longitudinal lines on the disc, of the same colour : on the disc, between 

 the two black lines and the costa, is a black circle, anterior to which, towards 

 the apex, is an open lunide of the same colour : the posterior wings are bright 

 rosy at the base, gradually shading off to cinereous on the hinder margin ; 

 they have three black fascia, the outer one slightly emarginate on each side, 

 and the anterior divided towards the anal angle, where it takes a bend to the 

 margin : the cilia of all the wings brown interrupted with white : thorax 

 cinereous, with one lateral and several anterior black strigae, and a tuft of the 

 same colour at the base : abdomen with the back cinereous^ the sides alter- 

 nately banded with bright rose colour and black. 



Caterpillar feeds on the Spanish potato f Convolvulus batatas J. 



Again, we have a transatlantic species, which has been captured at large no less 

 than four times in England : the first was taken about fifty years since near 

 London, and carried alive to the late Mr. Drury: and in September, 1826, a 

 fine and beautiful specimen was taken in a nursery ground near the Kent 

 Road : Mr. Newman has a third ; and I possess a fourth, which were also 

 captured near London, several years since : but doubtless all these were im- 

 ported. It is the Sp. Convolvuli of Smith and Abbot. 



