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insect in this country, but has been found in some 

 plenty in one or two places, and occasionally in 

 others. Mr. Curtis mentions Enborne, near New- 

 bury, Berkshire, as one of its localities, and it is 

 said by Mr. Stephens to have been taken in the 

 New Forest. 



BEE CLEAR-WING. 



Trochilium Apiforme. 

 PLATE XIII. Fig. I. 



Sphinx Apiformis, Linn. ; Donovan, i. PI. 25 ; Linn. Trans. 



iii. PI. 3. figs. 1* 5. JEgeria Apiformis, Leach Hofnet- 



moth, Harris" 1 Expos. PI. 3, fig. 7. Trochilium Apiforme, 

 Curtis" B. E. viii. 372. 



THE two genera which next present themselves to 

 our notice constitute the family of the ^Egeridse. 

 Their affinity to the Sesise will at once be traced in 

 the transparency and similar neuration of the wings, 

 while the absence of the anal horn in the caterpillar 

 evinces a considerable aberration from that group, 

 as well as from the typical structure of the Sphin- 

 gidse. They possess a pair of simple eyes, or stem- 

 mata, placed on the hinder part of the head, similar 

 to what are observed in many Hymenoptera and 

 Diptera. Other points of analogy to the insects 

 just named may be discovered, and this general 

 resemblance is attempted to be indicated by naming 



