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with two tolerably stout spines. From Senegal, and presented 
to the Paris Museum by the same naturalist. 
Fig. 5. The abdomen of the same insect viewed from be- 
neath. 
Vig. 6. Myrmeleo clavicorne, of the natural size. Body whitish 
with black points on the thorax; antenne terminated in a little 
rounded button; small black spots, some of which are almost 
punctiform, and the others, those on the inner margin particu- 
larly, forming little lines, on the superior wings; other lines of 
the same colour, some of which are bifid posteriorly, at the ex- 
tremity of the inferior ones; a larger and alm@st rounded black 
spot on their middle. From Senegal and presented to the Mu- 
seum by the same gentleman. 
Plate II. 
Fig. 1. Smerinthus Dumolinii of the natural size. Wings 
indented and of an obscure greyish-brown; the superior ones 
with two or three little, slightly marked, sinuous, whitish-grey 
lines, and a broad band of olive-brown which does not reach 
the base, marked with a white dot and a trilobate spot of a 
similar colour; extremity of these same wings with a paler 
brown and strongly indented band. Inferior surface of the four 
wings paler than the superior, and with a broad black spot on 
the middle of each, near the edge. 
Thorax deep-grey and olive-brown in the centre; origin of the 
abdomen of the same colours; antenne white,-and smallest in the’ 
female. 
The caterpillar, like those of all the Smerinthi, has a trian- 
gular head, and is annulated with black and red; the whole body 
is sprinkled with blackish points. From Senegal; on the Baobab, 
where M. Dumoulin discovered two specimens. Collection of 
Count Dejean. 
Fig. 2. Castnia Hubner of the natural size. Superior wings 
white, with two oblique, white, and almost maculated bands 
beyond the middle of the wings. Inferior wings blackish with 
a reddish border and base; two ranges of large dots, near 
the extremity of the posterior and marginal ones, are of a 
minium-red, and the others white. The under surface of the 
four wings presenting a similar design to that above, but almost 
entirely reddish, with the exception of the middle of the infe- 
rior ones, and the external edge of the terminal band of the su- 
perior, which are black. 
