i'.v. IOMOI.OGICAT. CARINF.'I, 



MACROGLOSSA. Ochsetiheimer. 

 Family SESIIDJE. Stephen*. 



Antenna hooked, gradually thickening nearly to 

 the apex, fringed in the males, simple in the fe- 

 males: palpi contiguous, ahove the maxilla, thickly 

 covered with scales : tongue as long as the body : 

 wings elongate-lanceolate, opaque. Larva elongate, 

 slightly attenuated in front, caudal horn straight : 

 pupa elongate, head case produced. 



Sp. 1. Macr. Stellatarum. Upper wings dusky 

 brown, with several obsolete and two waved trans- 

 verse and black streaks, a central black spot, 

 generally with a pale band ; lower icings reddish 

 tawny, with the base and hinder margin dusky, the 

 laiter tinted with a rust colour, the fringe tawny, 

 dusky at the base : head, antenna*, thorax and ab- 

 domen, above dusky brown ; the latter varied with 

 black and white at the sides, with a black tuft at the 

 end of the body. 



Expansion of the wings 1 inch 9 lines to 2 inches. 



Caterpillar green, speckled with white, with a 

 whitish or yellowish lateral line from the head to the 

 caudal horn, and below this a pale yellow one : the 

 fore legs deep \ellow: the horn blue at the base, 

 reddish-yellow at the tip : it feeds on the various 

 kinds of bedstraw. The chrysalis is of a pale brown, 

 with the wing cases darker : its form is peculiar, 

 the head-case being rounded and the middle swollen. 

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