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with the following species ; if not, it is certainly rare. 

 Abroad it ranges through Europe except the extreme north 

 and part of the extreme south ; also over portions of Northern 

 and Western Asia and Northern Africa. 



It may be well to point out that the present species is 

 known as the Broad-bordered Bee-hawkmoth ; but that 

 German authors (following Ochsenheimer) transpose the 

 names of this and the following species, which is known, with 

 ns, as the Narroiv-hordered Bee-hawkmoth. 



3. M. bombyliformis, Esp. fuciformis, Ochs., StqjJi., 

 Stand. Cat. — Expanse If inch. Wings transparent, with a 

 narrow brown marginal band ; abdomen yellow, with two 

 slender black bars. 



Antennae long, thick beyond the middle, black, without 

 pectinations ; having a recurved point or bristle at the tip. 

 Head rather prominent ; thorax very broad and robust ; both 

 black, but completely covered with long dull yellow hairs, 

 palest above the insertion of the wings. Abdomen 

 broad, short, rounded, densely covered with long yellow 

 scales, except upon two central narrow black transverse 

 bands, which are sometimes partially united or suffused ; 

 hinder segments with whitish-yellow lateral tufts and abroad 

 anal tuft, or brush, of dull yellow and black. Fore wings very 

 slightly broader and shorter than in the preceding species, 

 hind wings also a little shorter, and rounder. Fore and hind 

 wings transparent, with the nervures slender and distinctly 

 reddish-black. Costa of the fore wings narrowly purplish- 

 black ; hind margin having a purplish-brown stripe, which is 

 broad at the apex of the wing, but narrows rapidly, becomes 

 very slender below the middle, and terminates in a point at 

 the anal angle ; dorsal margin blackish, broadly so at the 

 base, thinly covered with yellowish-brown scales. At the end 

 of the discal cell is an oblique line, hardly thicker than the 

 other nervures. Hind wings with an extremely narrow brown 

 stripe along the hind margin, broader at the anal angle and 



