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BROAD-BORDERED BEE HAWK-MOTH. 



-Siesta Fudformis. 

 PLATE XII. Fig. 3. 



Sphinx Fuciformis, Linn. ; Donovan, iii. PI. 87 Sesia Bom- 



byliformis, Stephens' Illus. Clear-winged Humming-bird 

 Sphinx, Harris. 



To the short and robust body of the preceding 

 genus, Sesia adds the distinctive character of clear 

 transparent wings ; and is easily distinguished from 

 the two following genera, with which it has this 

 property in common, by the ovate hairy abdomen 

 and sphinx-like form, as well as by the caudal horn 

 of the caterpillar. The antennae thicken from the 

 base nearly to the apex, which terminates in an 

 oblique two-jointed seta ; and the proboscis is very 

 long and spiral. The species named fuciformis, 

 from the resemblance of the body to that of a drone- 

 bee, expands from eighteen to upwards of twenty 

 lines. The colour of the body is yellowish or olive- 

 green, the third and fourth segments of the abdo- 

 men deep-red, and the two following yellow ; the 

 tuft at the extremity black at the sides, and yellovr 

 in the middle. The wings are vitreous and irides- 



