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SPOTTED ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH. 



Deikphila Euphorbia. 

 PLATE VIII. 



Sphinx Euphorbia, Linn. ; Donovan, iii. PI. 91, 92 Deile- 



phila Euphorbiae, Curtis' B. E. i. PI. 3. Spotted Elephant 

 Hawk-moth, Harris' Aurelian, PI. 44. 



THE primary wings, which expand from two and a 

 half to nearly three inches, are of a dusky-green 

 colour, with a broad irregular rosy fascia running 

 obliquely from the hinder margin near the base to 

 the apex ; the posterior margin of a similar colour, 

 but somewhat dusky; the inner margin narrowly 

 edged with white. The under wings are red, in- 

 clining to rose-colour, with a white mark on the anal 

 angle, the base and a transverse band being black. 

 The head and antennae are white, the thorax dusky 

 or olive-green on the surface ; the abdomen likewise 

 of the latter colour, with the sides of the three first 

 segments white, the two next the base with deep 

 black spots, the remaining segments narrowly edged 

 with white anteriorly at the sides. The whole of 

 the under side is rose-colour, somewhat clouded 



