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the antennae are terminated abruptly in a club with a short terminal 

 hook, compose the subgenus 



CoRONis, Lat. * 



Finally, tliose in which the antennae are similar to those of the 

 Agaristee, but where the palpi are shorter, wide, and cylindrical, 

 form the 



Castnia, Fab. 



All the species belong to the eastern continent f.^ 



Those of our second section, or the Sphingides, always have the 

 antennje terminated by a little flake of scales; the inferior palpi 

 broad, or compressed transversely, densely covered with scales, and 

 the third joint usually indistinct. 



Most of the caterpillars have an elongated, smooth body, thickest 

 at the posterior extremity, which is furnished with a horn, and its 

 sides striped obliquely or 'longitudinally. They live on leaves, and 

 are metamorphosed in the earth without spinning a cocoon. 



Sphinx, proper. 

 Where the antennse, commencing from the middle, form a pris- 

 matic club, simply ciliated, or transversely striated on one side, in tlxe 

 manner of a rasp. They have a very distinct proboscis, and fly with 

 great velocity, hovering over flowers with a humming noise. In 

 the chrysalides of some species the sheath of the proboscis projects 

 in the manner of a snout (a). 



S. euphorbicB, L. ; Roes., Insect., I, cl., 1, Pap. Noct., III. 

 Superior surface of the upper wings reddish-grey, with three 

 green spots, and a broad band of the same colour ; that of the 

 lower wings red, with a black band and a Avhite spot. Antennae 

 white. The body olive-green above; abdomen conical, sharply 

 pointed, and without a terminal brush. 



The caterpillar is black, with yellow spots and points; a line 

 along the back, tail and feet red. 



S. Atropos ; L.; Rces., Insect. Ill, 1. Superior Avings varie- 

 gated with deep and yellowish-brown, and light-yellowish ; 

 inferior Avings yellow, with two brown bands ; a yellowish spot, 

 with two black dots on the thorax ; abdomen yellowish, with 

 black annuli, and without a terminal brush. This is the largest 

 species in France. The spot on the thorax resembling a death's 

 head, and the sharp sound it produces (attributed by Reaumur to 

 its rubbing the palpi against its proboscis %, and by M. Lorey to 



that of Cor^/ja of M. Bois-Duval; tlie wings are marked with square transparent 

 spots ; a character which seems to approximate them to Sesia ; hut the palpi are 

 those of Urania, and the antenrag are as iu Ag-arista. 



* Founded on a species from Brazil, now in the cabinet of Count Dejean, and 

 which I believe is undescribed. 



t See Encyc. Method., article PapiUon, genus Agarisle, and the already quoted 

 Monograph of Daiman. 



J It is proportionally shorter than in the other Sphinges. It is probably from 



tt:^ (a) Curving downwards, and the extremity laid on the pectus, resembling the 

 handle of a vase. — Eng. Ed. 



