124. HAUSTELLATA. — LF.PIDOPTEKA. 



terminating in two slender hairs : palpi contiguous above the viaxilla, which 

 are rather elongated: head moderate subovate: wings entire, the posterior 

 slightly produced at the anal angle : bodi/ very acute, with a small tuft at the 

 apex. Caterpillar various ; head small; body smooth, with lateral spots, ge- 

 nerally of lively colours ; the anterior segments incapable of being withtlrawn 

 or expanded : or, without lateral spots, colours dull, the anterior portion of 

 the body capable of elongation, and with lateral ocelli : pupa smooth, sheath 

 of the maxilliE not exerted ; changes in a loose leafy cell on the ground ; or 

 subterranean. 



Deilephila at first sight offers many points of resemblance to 

 Sphinx; but the species are usually much smaller, the abdomen 

 shorter and more suddenly attenuated, the maxillse abbreviated, 

 and the antennie more distinctly elavate, and terminating in a naked 

 subulated appendage : they differ amongst each other in the form 

 of their wings, &c. ; but those discrepancies are constant with the 

 difference in the structure of the larvse, and in the habits of the 

 pupa. I shall therefore subdivide them into two sections, corre- 

 sponding with their diversities of habit and structure : the larv£e of 

 the second division have the power of elongating or contracting the 

 anterior portions of their body; thence called Elephant Sphinxes; 

 a term which has been applied to all the species, though improperly. 



A. Anterior wings not subfalcate, hinder margin rounded towards the apex : 



abdomen transversely banded : antennse distinctly elavate. Larva macidated ; 



anterior segments not retractile: caudal horn rugose: pupa superficially 



buried. 

 Sp. 1. Euphorbiae. Alis anticis virescentibus, vittd lata livida, maculdque disci 



virescente, posticis 7iigris, fascia viargineque exteriori rubris, antennis niveis. 



(Exp. alar. $ 2 unc. 10 lin. : 2 3 unc. 1 hn.) 

 Sph. EuphorbiiE. Liunc. — De. Euphorbiae. Curtis, i. pi. 3. — Steph. Catal. 



Anterior wings greenish , with a broad, irregular, livid, or rosy longitudinal streak, 

 reaching obliquely from the thinner edge to the apex, and the hinder margin 

 also irregularly bordered with dusky-rosy; the disc with a greenish spot, and 

 the base with a white one ; posterior wings rosy-red, with the base and a fascia 

 near the hinder margin black ; a spot towards the inner edge, and the cilia 

 white : head and thorax greenish-brown, with a lateral white stripe ; the latter 



commingled with the rest of the collection, but placed by themselves, with 

 their proper locality attached, in a distinct receptacle; and thus confusion will 

 be avoided, the cause of science will remain uninjured, the collection itself 

 will become more valuable and classical ; and, when " the flow of time " 

 occasions it to fall into other hands, the student will not be perplexed nor led 

 into error should he detect any extraordinary species therein. 



