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this side, except a faint waved line which, crossing the superior and inferior wings, ends near the anal 

 angle. 



Male. — Upper Side. Head, thorax, abdomen, and anterior wings sandy yellow. The shades and 

 clouds, which in the female are of olive brown, in this are of fine red brown ; the two discoidal black spots 

 being distinct. Posterior wings, next the shoulders, grey, as in the female ; but along the external margin 

 sandy yellow. 



Under Side. The breast, abdomen, thighs, superior and inferior wings are, as on the upper side, the 

 same sandy yellow ; the faint waved lines, crossing both superior and inferior wings, being rather more 

 conspicuous than in the female. 



DEILEPHILA EUPHORBLE. 



Plate XXIX. fig. 3. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Crepuscularia. Family: Sphingidae, Leach. 



Genus. Deilephila, Oclis. Steph. ^-c. Eumorphoe, -ff«6n. Sphinx, Linn. 



DEILEPHILA EUPHORBI.E. Alis anticis viresceutibus vitta lata lurida maculaque disci virescente, posticis nigris 

 fascia margiueque exteriori roseis, abdomine cingulis (interruptis) albis. (Expaus. Alar. 2 unc. 10 lin. g . 

 3 unc. 1 lin. 5 .) 



Syn. Sphinx Euphorbias, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 802. Do7iov. Brit. Ins. 3. pi. 91. 92. Fair. Ent. Sijst. 111.1. 

 3G7. No. 37. Gmel. Linn. S. N. 2383. 19. Haicorth Lep. Brit. 61. 

 The Spotted Hawk Moth, Harris Aurelian, pi. 44./. a. c. 

 Deilephila Euphorbiae, Ochs. Schmett.iv. p. 43. Curtis Brit. Ent. l.pl. 4. 



Habitat : Holland; Germany ( Drury). England, and other parts of Eui'ope. 



Upper Side. Head and thorax olive, having a white stripe on each side, which, beginning at the 

 palpi and riraning across the shoulders, ends at the base of the abdomen ; the olive colour extending 

 along that part to its extremity. The first segment of the abdomen is black, the second cream colour, 

 the remainder alternately cream colour and olive. The superior wings are of a flesh colour, having a 

 narrow olive bar beginning at the tips, which, crossing them, ends at the posterior margin, widening 

 gradually ; an olive patch, the size of a small pea, is also placed on each next the shoulders, and another 

 on the middle near the anterior edge. Cilia cream colour. The posterior wings black at the base ; 

 below which is a rose-coloured bar crossing them, next that is a narrow black indented bar, and beneath 

 these the wing is flesh-coloured, with white cilia. 



Under Side. The breast rose-coloured. The abdomen flesh-coloured, with cream-coloured rings. 

 Wings faint rose and flesh-coloured; the anterior having a black spot in each, near the middle, and not 

 far from the anterior edge. 



Since the days of Drury this handsome insect has been ascertained to be a native of our 

 island. It has, however, until lately been deemed one of the rarest as well as most beautiful 

 species in the rare family to which it belongs. Entomologists are indebted not only for a 

 considerable number of specimens, but, what is more interesting, for a knowledge of the 

 habits of the insect to William Raddon, Esq. the celebrated engraver, by whom an inte- 

 resting notice has been published in the Entomological Magazine. It feeds upon the sea 



