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are sometimss also confluent; the hind- wings are deep 

 crimson, with a narrow purplish border along the hind 

 margin. 



The sluggish fat larva is pale yellow, more greenish 

 on the sides, with two rows of large black spots on the 

 back, and some smaller black spots on the sides, above 

 the black spiracles ; the black head is entirely retractile 

 without the second segment. It feeds in May and June 

 on various papilionaceous plants. 



The perfect insect appears towards the middle of June, 

 and may be met with throughout the following month, 

 and sometimes in August ; it frequents hayfields and 

 pasture -meadows, grassy hill-slopes, and the heathery 

 hill-sides of Scotland. 



Besides the above, we have two species of Five- Spot 

 Burnet Sphinges (A. trifolii and A. lonicera) ; these 

 have the first four crimson spots nearly as in A.filipen- 

 dulse, but have only one spot beyond the middle of the 

 fore-wings instead of two. Both are widely distributed, 

 though rather local, and appear in the perfect state 

 towards the end of June or in July. 



FAMILY II. SPHINGID^. 



8MEBINTHU8 OCELLATUS. THE EYED 

 HAWK-MOTH. 



This handsome insect occurs pretty commonly 

 throughout the country, but seems to become scarcer in 

 the north, and I do not think it has been noticed in 

 Scotland ; in Ireland it is scarce. 



The expansion of the wings is from 2 } to 3J inches. 

 The fore -wings are of a pale rosy-brown, clouded with 

 olive markings ; the hind-wings are rosy, shading into 



