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LT.OVn S NATURAL HISTORY. 



abundant in the plain of Malaga that hundreds might be taken 

 along the sides of the fields in a very short time. It sometimes 

 flies by day ; but in England it is generally found fl) ing over 

 flowers at dusk, like the other species of the genus. 



The closely-allied American species, D. lineata (Fabricius), 

 or D. daucus (Cramer), may be distinguished at once, by 

 having six white longitudinal stripes on the thorax instead 

 of four. 



THE MADDER HAWK-I\IOTH. DILEPHILA GALII. 



[riale CI I., Fig. I.) 



Sphinx gallii, Von Rottemburg, Naturforscher, vii. p. 107 



(1775)- 

 Sphinx gaiii, Denis & Schifferm tiller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 



Wien, p. 42, no. 2 (1776); Esper, Schmett. ii., p. 173, 



Taf. 21 (1779); Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. ii., p. 217 



(1808); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. ii., fig. 64 (i797?); 



Godart, Lepid. France, iii., p. 37, pi. 17, fig. 3 (1822). 

 Deilepliila galii, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i., p. 125, 



pi. 12, fig. 2 (1828) ; Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Le'pid. Hettr. 



i. p. 169 (1875) ; Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 70, 



pi. 18, figs. 2a, b (1879); Buckler, Larv^ of Brit. Lepid. 



ii., p. 36, pi. 24 (1887); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl, ii. 



p. 42, pi. 49 (1893). 



This moth expands from tvvo and a half to three inches. 



The fore- wings are dark olive-green, with a whifish stripe 

 taijering obliquely from the inner margin, close to the base, to 

 the tip. The hind-wings are pale rose-colour, with the base 

 and a sub-mavginal stripe black. The hind margin is of a 

 pale purplish white. The antenna: arc blackish, tipped with 

 white, and the head and thorax dark olive-green, wiih a wliile 



