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DEILEPHILA EUPHORBIiE. 



Spotted Elephant. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Spliingida? Lai. 

 Type of the Genus Sphinx Elpenor Linn. 



Deilepiiila Ochsenhelmcr. Sphinx Linn. 



Aiiicnncc composed of many joints, with the duh prismatic, and 

 appealing hooked, it being terminated by a long, subulated, 

 naked joint (l.a.) : upper side thickly covered with scales (l,b.): 

 under side ciliated (I.e.) 



Lahrum (2. a.) and mandibles attached to the head. 

 Mandibles parallel, curved inward, furnished internally with 

 brushes of very strong hair (2. b.) 



Maxilla: (forming the proboscis) very long and spiral : (3) is a 

 portion of one, to shov/ the base and the semi-cylindric canal. 

 Labial Palpi broad if seen in front, covered with short close 

 scales, the first joint very much bent, second very large, some- 

 what oval, third tuberculiform, scarcely distinct : (4) the scales 

 removed to show the articulations. 



Wings horizontal, or deflexcd in repose ;'a hook or valch at the exterior 



edge of the lower icings to retain those above. 

 (Jaterpillars with 6 anterior, S abdominal, and 2 anal feet. 



D. EuPHORBi.i': Orhs. 



Sphinx Euphovbite Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 802. 19. Fab. Syst. Nat. torn. 3. 

 p. o67. 37. Haw. Lep. Brit. /). Gl . H. Roescl. Lis. v. 1 . t. 3. /). 17. 



Head and thorax white, the centre fuscous-green. Abdomen 

 above fuscous-green, sides of the first 3 segments white, with pure 

 black spots upon the first 2, the next 3 segments having narrow 

 white spots on their sides. Upper wings fuscous-green, white 

 at their base, with a black spot ; the posterior margin white ; a rosy 

 fascia extending from the posterior margin to tlie apex, very 

 deeply siiuuited above and luululated beneath, and a darker rosy 

 margin from the apex to the posterior angle ; under wings 

 black, whitisli internally, with a deep rose-coloured fascia in the 

 centre, and another along the external margin : tlie whole In- 

 sect beneath clouded rose colour, with 2 ol)scurc black spots in 

 the upper wings. Antennie white above and fuscous beneath : 

 legs white, first pair fuscous-green above. Tlie male has much 

 less black in tlic under wings, the antenna^ arc thicker, and the 

 abdomen more dilated with hair at the apex, than in the female. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Raddon and the Author. 



Deii.f.i'hila is derived front the Greek, and means Lovers of 

 Evening, It wa.s a genus proposed I believe by Ilnbner, and 



