2 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



SPHINGIDiE. 



Deilbphila, Oclis. 



1. Deilephila euphorhiarnm. 



Sphinx nHphorhiarum, Boisduval, in Guerin and 

 Percheron's 'Insectes,' 2me livr. 8, pi. 3 (1835). 



Deilephila spinifascia, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, 

 p. 81. 



Deilephila celeno, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep. i. p. 170 

 (1875). 



" Description of larva when half grown : — Head, dorsal 

 line, spiracular line, row of subdorsal spots, under side, 

 legs and claspers, dull crimson ; front half of each 

 segment black, with two dull crimson spots in yellow 

 rings (one on each side), hinder half bright green, inter- 

 rupted by five narrow transverse lines. Horn slender, 

 rough, red at base, black at apex. 



" Var. — Dull black ; head, legs, claspers, and hinder 

 part of last segment, dull crimson ; spiracles yellow ; 

 each segment with two yellow rings (one on each side), 

 excepting the 12th and 13th, which have yellow streaks 

 instead ; within and around the yellow rings are patches 

 of deep shining black. 



'' FuU'(jron-n (Plate I., fig. 1). — The black and green 

 markings less distinct, but same pattern as when half- 

 grown. General tint reddish olive, varying in depth ; 

 the yellow rings always centred with black. 



"Larva found sparingly about Valparaiso, from 

 November to March ; feeds on Miihlenbeckia sagittcefolia. 



" Imago appears to be most common in March." 

 —T. E. 



2. Deilephila annei. 



SjMnx annei, Guerin, Mag. de Zool. 2me ser. 1, Ins. 

 pi. 2 (1839). 



Larva blackish ; head, legs, claspers and horn, dull 

 red ; ocelli rounded, uniform, red with yellow inferior 

 margins, connected, as in the preceding species, by a 

 series of yellow dots ; lower half of body yellow, a 

 blackish longitudinal subspiracular line interrupted on 

 each segment by a longitudinal red dash. This descrip- 

 tion is taken from a coloured figure (Plate I., fig. 2). 



"Food-plant, OxyhaptruH parvijiorus. November, De- 

 cember, and January." — T. E. 



