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Upper Side. Antennffi red brown above, white underneath. Head and thorax dark brown ; head 

 and thorax wath a black dorsal line. Abdomen encircled with rings of brown and dark ash colour, 

 divided on the top by a dark ash-coloured line running from the thorax to the extremity. Posterior 

 wings dark brown coloured, having some dark irregular lines, almost black, crossing them from the anterior 

 to the posterior margin, and a row of small black angular marks running along their external margin ; these 

 wings are a little dentated. Posterior wings yellow, with a deep black border. 



Under Side. Abdomen dark ash-coloured. Anterior wings brown, spotted along their external 

 edges with long yellowish spots. Posterior wings brown, with a deep border ; the middle of the wings 

 and abdominal edges being yellow ; a narrow black indented line begins at the abdominal corners, and 

 crossing the wings ends at the anterior margin below the middle. 



Fabricius, on the authority of Dr. Pflug, states that this insect frequents the Carica 

 Papaya. The larva is tailed, without hairs, the back cinereous anteriorly, with a broad 

 fascia of a brown colour, ocellated in the middle and ending in a black spot. The chry- 

 salis is browTi, with red annuli and striae. 



SPHINX PINASTRI. 



Plate XXVII fig. 2. 



Order: Lepidoptei-a. Section; Crepuscularia. Family; Sphingidse, ieacA. 



Genus. Sphinx, Auct. 



Sphinx Pinastri. Alls cinereis, anticis lineolis tribus coofertis iiigris ; abdomine fuseo, cingulis atris supra albo 



marginatis etdorso interruptis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. lin.) 

 Syn. Sphinx Pinastri, Linn. Si/st. Nat. 2. 892. No. 22. Scpp. Ins. 3. 23. i. 5. Roesel. Ins. Belust. 1. PhaJ. 



1. t. 6. Donov. Engl. Ins. ix. 10. pi. 290. Fubr. Ent. Syst. 111. 1. 307. No. 35. Gnel. Linn. S. N. 



2385. 22. Stephens Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. 1. 121. 

 HAByAT : Germany {Drury). England, and other parts of Europe. 



Upper Side. Antennae white on one side, and brown on the other. Head and thorax brown grey : 

 the latter at the base being ash-coloured, having a black line running on each side. Abdomen brown 

 grey, encircled with rings of a dirty black, divided on the top by a broad line of brown grey, through 

 which runs a black line from the base to the extremity. Anterior wings brown grey, with three short black 

 lines in the middle of each wing ; at the tips rises another irregular narrow black hue, running towards 

 the middle of the wing, and chequered with white and black. Posterior wings brown grey, immaculate, 

 being a little paler towards the shoulders; the wings are entire. Cilia alternately black and white. 



Under Side. The breast and abdomen are ash-coloured. All the wings brown grey, innnaculate. 

 Cilia spotted as above. 



This insect is attached to the pine, and is consequently found in the great forests in 

 Germany, and other parts of Continental Europe. This accounts for its scarcity in 

 England, and for its having been occasionally found in the pine forests of Scotland by 

 Dr. Leach and Mr. Wilson. The larva is described by Mr. Stephens as being entirely 

 yellow in its first skin, in the second green with yellow stripes, in the third deeper green, 

 with three longitudinal lemon-yellow lines on each side, and finally of a rich green with a 



