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HARPYIA? BANKSI^. 



PLATE XVII. Fig. 2. 



Levin's Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales, pL 9. 



We believe that this conspicuous moth has been 

 referred to the genus Harpyia by Boisduval, but it 

 may well be questioned whether that be its proper 

 situation. It seems to offer sufficiently distinct 

 marks to form the type of a new genus. 



The male expands upwards of two inches, the 

 female three inches four lines. The upper wings 

 are of a leaden colour, slightly glossed with purple, 

 having several black marks, and freckled here and 

 there with white and orange dots, and several clouds 

 and dashes of the same. The hinder wings are 

 brown and glossy in the female, whitish and silvery 

 in the male, the base tinged with orange. Thorax 

 black, with two large white patches spotted with 

 red anteriorly; abdomen orange, with a rounded 

 black spot at the side of each segment, and the 

 hinder extremity black. 



The caterpillar (Plate XVII. fig. 3) is a very 

 beautiful one and bears considerable resemblance to 

 that of a sphinx both in form and markings. The 



