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SPECIES a— DEILEPHILA LIVORNICA. THE STRIPED HAWK-MOTH. 



Plate iv. fig. 0—8. 



SvKoriYiiF.s.—Acnpitnna Lwomica, I'ctiver, Gnz. pi. 12, f. 9. i Sphiii.v Kocliliiii, Fuesslys Archiv., pi. 4. 



Sphinx Livornica, lliibntr, Spliing. pi. 12, f. 15. Deilephila lincaln, Oclisenheimcr ; Curtis (Ut edit.); Slqili., 11. 



Deilephila Livornica, Curtis, Brit. Ent. No. 1, 2*1 edit. p. 3 

 verso ; Stephens, Calal. ; AVood, Ind. Ent. t. 4, f. IfJ, 

 Phryxus Livornica, llubner, Veiz. bek. Schmett. 



H. 1, pi. 12, f. I ; Duncan, Brit. Moths, p. 1.52, (but not tlie Sphin.t 

 lincata of Fabricius and Donovan, which is the Sphinx Daucus of 

 Cramer, and which is figured by Woud in tlie liid. Ent. t. 53, f. '-'7.) 



This handsome species is equally rare with the preceding. The expansion of its fore wings is 3^ inches ; 

 their u]iper surface is of an olive brown colour, with a rather broad pale stripe extending across the wing from 

 near the base of the inner margin to the tip ; a whitish stibtriangular discoidal spot in the middle, and another 

 beyond the middle, indicate the oblique short subcostal bars of the preceding species ; the apical margin is 

 ashy. This species is, however, strikinglj' distinguished by having the veins of the wings forming slender 

 whitish streaks. The hind wings are pale rosy-pink, with the base and a submarginal fascia black ; the anal 

 margin being clothed with white hairs. The head and thorax are olive-brown, margined with white ; the latter 

 with two short white dorsal streaks, and the hind part paler. The abdomen is much more varied than in the 

 two preceding species ; a pale narrow line running down the back, intersecting the small white patches (margined 

 with black in the middle of each segment at the base) ; the sides of the abdomen being also ornamented with 

 large white patches, spotted at the base with black. Tiie .antenna' are brown, tijiped with white. 



Tiie caterpillar is of an olive-green or yellow tint, spotted with black ; the head, a stripe down the back, 

 two rows of lateral spots, and the tail rose-coloured above, but black beneath ; the belly white, and a longi- 

 tudinal line on each side below the spiracles pale yellow. It feeds on the lady's bed-straw, the Sonchus arvensis, 

 and the common vine. It is full-fed at the end of July, and the moth appears at the end of August. Jlr. 

 Stephens, however, mentions the capture of a verj' perfect and fine specimen in June. 



There are but very few instances on record of the capture of this hue species in tliis country ; Norfolk, near 

 London, Kingsbridge in Devon, and Cornwall (Ilaworth), are the only localities given by our English writers. 



Deilephila lineata, Fab. (Sph. Daucus, Cramer), as mentioned in the synonymes of the preceding species, 

 has been confounded with D. Livornica. It is, however, perfectly distinct, being a native of North America, and 

 at once distinguished (as correctly described by Fabricius) by possessing six instead of four white lines on the 

 thorax. The larvaj also differ, according to Dr. Harris. 



CHCEROCAMPA, Duponchel. 



This genus was established in 1835 by M. Duponchel in the supplement to Godart, to receive those Sphingidje 

 which have the head and fore part of the body retractile ; the head being very small, and the first three segments 

 abruptly diminishing in size from the fourth, which gives to the fore part of the body a resemblance to the head 

 and mouth of a hog. Hence the French name of the larva;, cochonncs ; and the generic name proposed by 

 Duponchel, which is derived from x°^P°^> ^ li'^g' ^^^ Ka.iJ.Tfq, a caterpillar. This peculiarity seems to have 



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