lb8 OLEANDER HAWK-MOTH. 



and some other parts of the continent where the 

 insect is found, it no doubt feeds on others of more 

 common occurrence, perhaps, as has been conjec- 

 tured, the Vinca major, V. minor, or some species 

 of Cynanchum, all of which belong to the same 

 natural family of Apocyneas* 



This magnificent moth, which we have now the 

 pleasure to figure for the first time as a British 

 species, has been taken at least on two different 

 occasions in this country; once in the yicinity of 

 Dover, as intimated by Mr. Stephens in the Ento- 

 mological Magazine for October 1832 ; and a second 

 time, in the larva state, in a garden at Teignmouth, 

 Devon, in the autumn of the same year.t As the 

 insect is occasionally found in the neighbouring 

 continental countries, extending as far northwards 

 as the northern regions of Germany, the propriety 

 of admitting it into our native Fauna cannot be 

 attended with the same doubts that apply to such 

 kinds as have their principal seat in the new world. 

 It is strictly a European species, and from what we 

 know of its occurrence elsewhere, it might reason- 

 ably be inferred that the southern parts of England 

 should fall within the range of its distribution. It is 

 observed from time to time in the vicinity of Paris, 

 but its principal resort seems to be the neighbour- 

 hood of Genoa, Turin, and Nice, where it is said to 

 be common. 



* London's Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. 155. 

 + -Ent. Mag. ii. p. 116. 



