406 CLASS VIII. 



Sp. Sphinx TilicB L., Sphinx Populi L., Sphinx ocdlata L. Comp. SEPP, 

 Nederl. Ins. 



Sphinx LATR. Tongue distinct, sometimes very long. Anterior 

 wings in some angulate, in others quite entire, rotundate. 



a) Tongue shorter. (Acherontia OCHSENH., Brachyglossa BOISDUV.) 



Sp. Sphinx Atropos, KCESEL, Ins. in. Tab. I. n. ; SEPP, Nederl. Ins. ill. Tab. 

 xxn xxvin. ; PANZER, Deutschl. Ins. Heft 8, Tab. 16. The outspread 

 fore-wings have their tips more than 4" apart, the body is 2" long. The 

 upper-wings are brown, grey, flamed black and yellow-white, with a small 

 whitish and round spot on the middle ; the hind- wings are yellow, with two 

 pale-black bands. The loud noise which these animals make (on the cause 

 of which there are many different opinions) has occasioned the superstitious 

 dread which has sometimes surrounded this insect ; to the yellow spot with 

 two black points, which is seen on the thorax, and which has some resem- 

 blance to a skull, it owes the name of Death's-head moth. The caterpillar 

 feeds on the leaf of the potato. 



b) Tongue elongate. 



Macroglossa OCHSENH. (Macroglossum SCOP.) With extremity of ab- 

 domen bearded. Tongue very long. 



Sp. Sphinx stellatarum L., KCESEL, Ins. I., Pap. nocturn. Cl. i. Tab. vm. ; 

 SEPP, Nederl. Ins. II. 30 Stuk, Tab. i. the Humming-bird hawk. 



Pterogon BOISDUV. (Sp. of Macroglossa OCHSENH.) 



Sphinx BOISDUV., (Deilephila and Sphinx OCHSENH.) Abdomen conical, 

 with extremity not barbate. 



Sp. Sphinx Ligustri L., R<EHEL, Ins. in. Tab. v. ; SEPP, Nederl. Ins. i. 30 

 Stuk, Tab. III. IV. : the flight is sometimes more than 4" broad, the body 

 is 2" long ; upper-wings brown with white at the point and the posterior 

 margin, hind-wings rose-red with grey-brown margin, and three black 

 transverse stripes ; abdomen red above with a brown mid-stripe and black 

 rings. The beautiful green smooth caterpillar, with oblique violet and 

 white stripes, on the syringas and privets, is rare in Holland. 



II. Wings triangular rotundate, the poster tor congruous. 



Castnia FABR. Palps distinctly triarticulate. Antennae clavate, 

 with club elongate, sub-fusiform, not bearded at the apex. 



Sp. Pap. Licus CRAMER, Uitl. Kap. Tab. 223, fig. A; Castnia Pallasia 

 ESCHSCH. ; 0. V. KOTZEBUE, EntdecTcungs-Reise, ill. Tab. vi. fig. 27 ; 

 Castnia acrceoides BOISDUV. ; GDERIN, Iconogr. Ins. PI. 83, fig. 4, &c. All 

 the species hitherto known are from South America. 



Comp. on this division J. W. DALMAN, Prodromus Monographic CaslnicK, 

 C. Tabula sen. color. Holmae, 1825, 4to. These moths make the natural 

 transition to the following family, and are in their habitus very similar 

 to some diurnal butterflies ; their wings however have a retinaculum. 



Add sub-genera : Coronis LATR., Agarista LEACH and Cocytia 

 BOISDUV. (Monogr. des Zygenides PL i. fig. 1.) 



