406 CLASS VIII. 
Sp. Sphina Tilice L., Sphine Populi L., Sphina ocellata L. Comp. SEPP, 
Nederl. Ins. 
Sphinx Latr. Tongue distinct, sometimes very long. Anterior 
wings in some angulate, in others quite entire, rotundate. 
a) Tongue shorter. (Acherontia OCHSENH., Brachyglossa BOIsDUV.) 
Sp. Sphinw Atropos, Rasun, Jns. 11. Tab. 1. 1.; Sepp, Nederl. Ins. ut. Tab. 
XXII—Xxvill.; Panzer, Deutschl. Ins. Heft 8, Tab. 16. The outspread 
fore-wings have their tips more than 4” apart, the body is 2” long. The 
upper-wings are brown, grey, flamed black and yellow-white, with a small 
whitish and round spot on the middle ; the hind-wings are yellow, with two 
pale-black bands. The loud noise which these animals make (on the cause 
of which there are many different opinions) has occasioned the superstitious 
dread which has sometimes surrounded this insect ; to the yellow spot with 
two black points, which is seen on the thorax, and which has some resem- © 
blance to a skull, it owes the name of Death’s-head moth. The caterpillar 
feeds on the leat of the potato. 
b) Tongue elongate. 
Macroglossa OCHSENH. (Macroglosswm Scop.) With extremity of ab- 
domen bearded. Tongue very long. 
Sp. Sphinx stellatarum L., Raset, Ins. 1., Pap. nocturn. Cl. 1. Tab. VHL. ; 
Sepp, Nederl. Ins. 11. 3e Stuk, Tab. 1, the Humming-bird hawk. 
Pterogon Borspvuy. (Sp. of Macroglossa OCHSENH.) 
Sphinx Boispuv., (Deilephila and Sphinw OcusENH.) Abdomen conical, 
with extremity not barbate. 
Sp. Sphinw Ligustri L., Rasen, Ins. 11. Tab. v.; Sepp, Nederl. Ins. 1. 3e 
Stuk, Tab. m1. Iv.: the flight is sometimes more than 4” broad, the body 
is 2" long ; upper-wings brown with white at the point and the posterior 
margin, hind-wings rose-red with grey-brown margin, and three black 
transverse stripes; abdomen red above with a brown mid-stripe and black 
rings. The beautiful green smooth caterpillar, with oblique violet and 
white stripes, on the syringas and privets, is rare in Holland. 
Il. Wings trianqular rotundate, the posterior congruous. 
J A | ? P J 
Castnia Fase. Palps distinctly triarticulate. Antennee clavate, 
with club elongate, sub-fusiform, not bearded at the apex. 
Sp. Pap. Licus Cramer, Uitl. Kap. Tab. 223, fig. a; Castnia Pallasia 
Escuscu. ; O. V. Korzesun, Lntdeckungs-Reise, 11. Tab. vi. fig. 27 ;— 
Castnia acreoides Boispuy.; Guaérin, Zconogr. Ins. Pl. 83, fig. 4, &c. All 
the species hitherto known are from South America. 
Comp. on this division J. W. Daman, Prodromus Monographie Castme, 
c. Tabula wn. color. Holme, 1825, 4to. These moths make the natural 
transition to the following family, and are in their habitus very similar 
to some diurnal butterflies ; their wings however have a retinaculum. 
Add sub-genera: Coronis Latr., Agarista Leach and Cocytia 
Boispuv. (Monogr. des Zygénides PI. 1. fig. 1.) 
