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on which its large brown larva feeds. The fore-wings are 

 green, and the hind-wings are blue, varied with red, black, and 

 testaceous. Unfortunately the colours of this species are more 

 liable to fade than those of any other species of SpJiingidoR with 

 which I am acquainted. All the species of Fhilavipeliis and 

 its allies are American, except Euchloroii (Boisduval), which 

 includes one or two species with bright green fore-wings and 

 black and yellow hind-wings, which inhabit Africa and 

 Madagascar. 



GENUS DAPIINIS. 



Daphnis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 134 (1822?); 

 Curtis, Brit. Ent., xiv., pi. 626 (1837); Walker, List 

 Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus., viii., p. 187 (1856) ; Moore, Lepid. 

 Ceylon, ii., p. 14 (1882) ; Hampson, Faun. Brit. India, 

 Moths, i., p. 94 (1892). 



The genus Daphnis represents Pliilaupelus in the Old 

 World, but the antennae are less hooked, the wings are 

 narrower and more pointed, and the hind tibi?e are armed with 

 five very long spurs. The larvns have the anterior segment 

 retractile, are provided with a fleshy horn near the hinder 

 extremity, and are marked with ocellated spots. 



THE OLEANDER IIAWK-MOTH. DAPIINIS NERII. 



{Plate CIV.) 



Sphinx nej'ii, Linuc^us, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 490, no. 5 

 (1758); Cramer, Pap. Exot, iii., pi. 234, fig. I) (1779); 

 Esper, Schmett., ii., p. 43^ Taf. 4, figs. 1-3 (i779 ?) ; P- 199. 

 Taf 27, figs. I, 2 (1782?); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett., ii., 

 fig. 63 (1803); Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur., ii., p. 201 

 (1808); Godart, Lepid. France, iii., p. 12, pi. 13 (1822). 



