6 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Sj)hi/L\ honihyliforuiis, Esper, Schmett, ii , p. t8o, Taf. 23, fig. 2 



(1801 ?) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett., ii., fig. 56 (1803?). 

 Sj^hinx fucifornu's, Ochsenheimer, Sclimett. Eur., ii., p. 185 



(1808). 

 Sesia bouiby/iforniis, Curtis, Brit. Ent., i., pi. 40 (1824) ; 



Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid., ii., p. 122, pi. 26, figs. 4, 



4a (1887). 

 Sesia fucifoniiis, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., i., p. 134 



(1828). 

 Macyoglossa scalu'oste, vel knaulii, Zeller, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxx., 



p^ 387 (1869). 

 Heinaris fiiciformis, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 75, 



pi. 20, fig. 4 (1879). 

 Macroglossa honibyliformis, Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Lsl., ii., p. 73, 



pi. 54, figs. 3, 3a, (1893). 



This species is somewhat smaller than H. fuciformis^ 

 expanding from an inch and a half to an inch and three- 

 quarters, llie hind margin is much narrower than in 

 H. fucifornu's, especially on the hind-wings, and the discoidal 

 cell of the fore-wings has no thick dark dash at the extremity. 

 The body is olive-green, with a black belt on the abdomen, 

 followed by an orange-yellow one ; the anal tuft is black in 

 the middle, and yellow at the sides. 



The larva is green, with a pale green line on the sides, 

 marked with an elongated reddish-brown spot on each segment 

 from the fifth to the twelfth. The spiracles are reddish-brown, 

 and the horn, which is of the same colour, is straight. It 

 feeds on field scabious {Scabiosa arvensis). The moth flies 

 about flowers in the daytime, and is common in Europe and 

 Northern Asia. Towards the southern portion of its range 

 it is double-brooded, but in England there is only a single 

 brood, in the spring. 



