20 LLOYD S NATURAL HLSTORY. 



THE VINE HAWK-MOTH. HIPPOTION CELERIO. 

 {Plafe XCIX.) 



Sj>hinx celerio, Linn^us, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 491, no. 10 

 (1758); Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii.^ pi. 125, fig. E. (1777) ; 

 Esper, Eur. Schmett. ii., p. ^7,, Taf. 8, figs. 1-3, p. 176, 

 Taf. 22, fig. I, p. 201, Taf. 28, fig. i; ii. (2), p. 34, 

 Taf. 45, fig. 3 (1779-1782); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. ii 

 figs. 59, 146 (1803?), figs. 167, 168 (1807?); Ochsen- 

 hcimer, Schmett. Eur. ii., p. 205 (1808). 



Sj^hinx tlsiphone, Linn^us, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i. p. 492, no. 21 

 (1758); id., Mus. Ludov. Ulric?s, p. 359 (1764). 



DeilepJiila cekrio, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i., p. 128 

 (1828). 



Hippotion cclerio, Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, ii,, p. 16, pi. 84, 

 fig. 4 (1882). 



CJiKrocanipa cekrio, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 71, 

 pi. 16, fig. 2 (1879); Buckler, Larvce of Brit. Eepid. ii. 

 p. 113, pi. 25, fig. 2 (1887); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. ii., 

 p. 51, pi 51 (1893). 



The Vine Hawk- moth is olive brown with gilded longi- 

 tudinal stripes on the thorax. The abdomen has a dark 

 brown longitudinal stripe marked with a chain of silvery spots 

 forming a line down the centre, and double rows of short 

 silvery streaks on the sides. The fore-wings have a shining 

 white oblique waved stripe running from the apex almost to 

 the base, crossed by a fine brown line, and several dark 

 and light transverse lines towards the base. The hind- wings 

 are rose-coloured, with two black bands connected by black 

 nervures, and white fringes. 



The larva is green or purplish-brown, with two round 

 ocellated black spots on the fifth and sixth segments, each 

 enclosing a yellow dot, and encircled by a ring of the same 



