LIME HAWK-MOTHS. 



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The insect which is given as the representative of the genus 

 is an inhabitant of Natal, and is a very handsome species, 

 looking, indeed, very much like our own insect greatly magnified. 

 The colours are so mixed with each other that they are not easily 

 described, but they may be briefly taken as follows. In the 

 upper wings there is a large patch of grey-brown, slightly 



fc'io. 377. — Smerinthus Duuioliiiii. 

 (Chocolate, grey, and black.) 



mottled and having a narrow bar of darker brown upon it. Then 

 comes a large patch of dark chocolate-brown, in which are two 

 marks of pure white, one nearly round, and the other having a 

 sort of anchor shape. This chocolate patch is interrupted by 

 a jagged bar of the lighter colour, which runs completely 

 through it as far as the upper edge of the wing, where it spreads 

 so as nearly to reach the tip. 



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