286 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE HORNET CLEAR-WING. ^EGERIA APIFORMIS. 



(Plate CLV. Fig. i.) 

 Sphinx apiformis, Clerck, Icones, i. pi. 9, fig. 2 (1859); 



Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 289, no. 1093 (1761); Esper, 



Schmett. ii. (i), p. 122, Taf. 14, fig. 2 (1780) : (2) p. 207, 



Taf. 29, figs. 2, 3 (1781 ?) : p. 234, Taf. 36, figs. 2, 3, 4, 



ii (1783). 

 Sphinx vespiformis, Hufnagel, Berlin. Mag. i. (2), p. 182, no. 14 



(1766); Capieux, Naturf. xviii. p. 222, pi. 5, figs. 7, 8 



(1782). 

 Sphinx crabroniformis, Denis & Schiffermiiller, Syst. Verz. 



Schmett. Wien. p. 305, no. 2, note (1776); Hiibner, Eur. 



Schmett. ii. fig. 51 (1800?). 

 Sesia apiformis, Laspeyres, Ses. Eur. p. 7 (1801); Ochsen- 



heimer, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 121 (1808). 

 Trochilium apiformis^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 137 



(1828); Curtis, Brit. Ent. viii. pi. 372, fig. ** (1831); 



Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 77, pi. 20, fig. 6 



(1879). 

 Sphecia apiformis^ Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. ii. p. 123, 



pi. 27, fig. i, i a (1887). 

 Sph&ria apiformis, Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. ii. p. 106, pi. 57, 



figs. 6, 6 a, b (1893). 



The Hornet Clear-wing is common in most parts of Europe 

 and Northern and Western Asia. It expands about an inch 

 and a half. 



The head is yellow ; the thorax brown, with four yellow spots, 

 and the abdomen yellow, with the first and fourth segments 

 black, and clothed with brown pubescence. The other seg- 

 ments are bordered with black, and the last three are brown 

 on the back, with a line of the same colour on the sides. All 

 the wings are transparent, with the borders, the nervures, and 



