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RAYED HAWK-MOTH. 

 DeUephUa Lineata. 



Sieph. Illus. Ham. i. 126, PI. 12, fig. 1. Sphinx lineata, FaM* 

 cius. Sphinx Livornica, Hvbner and Esper. 



LARGER than either of the preceding, but not 

 strikingly dissimilar, the colours being distributed 

 somewhat after the same manner. The upper wings 

 are olive-brown, traversed by seven white nervures, 

 and having an angular patch of the same colour m 

 the centre of each : the hinder border is cinereous 

 and somewhat shining, and a yellowish band com- 

 mences at the origin of the internal border and runs 

 obliquely along the wing to the apex. The hindei 

 firings and the thorax are nearly as in D. Galii; 

 but the thorax bears two white rays in the centre, 

 which are abbreviated and convergent in front. The 

 abdomen is olive-brown, each of the segments with 

 a white border anteriorly, which is spotted with 

 black. The antennaB are brown, with the tip 

 white. 



The caterpillar, which seems not to have been 

 hitherto noticed in this country, is described by the 

 continental naturalists as yellow inclining to olive, 



