NEW FOREIGN BUTTERFLIES. .S99 



medio striisque duabiis longitudinalihis atris, posticis 

 bast riffiSy nigro tri/asciafisy abdomine maculis later- 

 alibus riifis atrisque alternis. 



Sphinx CoiivolvLili var. Drury Ins. 1. tab. xxv. 

 fig. 4. — From Port Jackson, in New Holland. — 

 This species, connected also with Sph. Convolvidi 

 of Fabrizius, has properly more resemblance with 

 Sph. Ligustri tlian with the former. The principal 

 colour of the upper wings is whitish-grey on a 

 brown ground, with many scalloped blackish-brown 

 transverse bands, of which one in tlie middle is 

 the largest and darkest. Distinguished are a small 

 ring and two short stripes in the middle, and an- 

 other stripe, with scalloped ends, at the tip of the 

 wing. The lower wings are red at the root, to- 

 wards the middle pale pink, the deep exterior 

 border is grey. Three black bands are particu- 

 larly distinguished : one almost annular, inclosing 

 the red colour at the root, a middle narrower scal- 

 loped one at the interior edge, and a third broad 

 band on the grey edge. The superior wings have 

 beneath, a brownish-grey colour ; two to three 

 lines from the exterior edge runs a narrow wavy 

 blackish-brown transverse line. The lower wings 

 are here light grey, which becomes always whiter 

 towards the inner edge. A black band, particu- 

 larly broad at the inner edge, runs over the mid- 

 dle of the wing ; behind it follows a white band ; 

 and, lastly, the wing is bordered by a greyish-brown 

 broad edge. The body is grey above and at the 



