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the antenne are terminated abruptly in a club with a short terminal 
hook, compose the subgenus 
Coronis, Lat. * 
Finally, those in which the antennze are similar to those of the 
Agaristee, but where the palpi are shorter, wide, and cylindrical, 
form the 
Casrnia, Fab. 
All the species belong to the eastern continent f. 
Those of our second section, or the Srarneres, always have the 
antenne 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 antenne, commencing from the middle, form a pris- 
matic club, simply ciliated, or transversely striated on one side, in the 
manner of arasp. 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. euphorbie, L.; Rees., 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 white spot. Antenne 
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.; Rees., Insect. II], 1. Superior wings varie- 
gated with deep and yellowish-brown, and light-yellowish; 
inferior wings 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 t, and by M. Lorey to 
that of Cocytia of M. Bois-Duval; the wings are marked with square transparent 
spots; a character which seems to approximate them to Sesia; but the palpi are 
those of Urania, and the antenne are as in Agarista. 
* Founded on a species from Brazil, now in the cabinet of Count Dejean, and 
which I believe is undescribed. 
+ See Eneye. Méthod.,article Papillon, genus Agarisic, and the already quoted 
Monograph of Dalman. 
} It is proportionally shorter than in the other Sphinges. It is probably from 
{> (® Curving downwards, and the extremity laid on the pectus, resembling the 
handle of a yase.—EnG. Eb. 
