;3g BRITISH MOTHS 



the discoidal cell, and a rounded one towards the apex of the wing ; tlie costa, ajiical margin, and a patch at the 

 extremit}' of the discoidal cell, arc Ijlack. 



This species is extremely rare, only one specimen being decidedly known to have been taken in this country 

 by Francillon, from whose collection it was purchased by Mr. Ilaworth. At the sale of the collection of the last- 

 mentioned Entomologist, it and numerous other very rare British .Sjihingid.-c, were purchased by Sir. Warburton. 

 Tt occurs ])lentifully in Germany and the north of Italy. 



SPECIES .3.— TROCHILIUM ICHNEUMONIFORME. 



Plate vii. fiff. 7. 



SvNoNYMFs. — Sphiii.r (or Sesia) Ichncnmoniforvm, Falmcius ; 

 Borkliausen ; LaspeyrfS. 



jEflcria Ichneumonifnrmis, Curtis, Brit. Eiit. pi. 53. StcpliCDS. 

 Wood, Ind. Eiit. i>l. 4, fig. 30. 



Beinhccia Ichnetniioaiformt^^ IlUbnrr, Vcrz. bek. Schm. ; Newman. 

 SpliiiLV Vesp'formis, Hiibner, Spli. fig. 39. Esper ; Ernst ; 

 Hawortli (but not of Liniitens nor of Laspeyres). 

 SphliLv scopjgcra^ Scopoli. 



This rare species measures nearly an inch in the expanse of its wings. It is of a brownish black colour ; the 

 head has a white patch in front, and the collar is yellowish, as are also the palpi, of which the tips are brownish ; 

 the antennse have the middle part yellowish above, but ferruginous beneath in the female, but darker in the male ; 

 the thorax has a lateral line, and a slender transverse one near the base of the abdomen, yellow ; the abdomen 

 (which is not so slender as in many of the species) has six or seven yellow dorsal fascias in the male, but 

 only five or six in the female ; the fan tail is small and black, but marked with a fevy yellow hairs, forming two 

 lines. The wings are hyaline, with the margins and discoidal spot orange-brown ; the posterior margin and apex 

 of the upper wings orange ; the tibias and tarsi are orange, with a black spot near the tip of the former. In 

 wasted specimens the colours become paler, which agree with the Fabrician and other descriptions. 



This species has generally been found in various parts of the south of England, Hastings, Devonshire, 

 Teignmouth, and in the Isle of Wight by Mr. Weaver, (who informs me that he took several near Freshwater 

 Gate, hovering over a yellow flower ;) near Bristol, at Creak, on the coast of Norfolk. 



SPECIES 4.— TROCHILIUM CYNIPIFORME. 



Plate vii. fig. 6. 



SvNONYMES. — Sphin.v {or Sesia) Cynipiformis, Esper; Borkbau- i Sphinx Asiliformis, Borkliausen. (Der Naturforscher, St. vii.) 

 sen ; Hawortb ; Ocbscnheimer. Sphin.r Vcspiformis, Fabricius ; Turton ; Curtis; Leach, (iEg. v.) 



JEgeria Cynipiformis^ Stephens, 111. Ilaiist. pi. 11, fig. 2, male. but not of Linrianis. 

 Wood. Ind. Knt. pi. 4, fig. 2,0, male and female, Sphin.v Chrysorrlia-a, Donovan, Biii. Ins. 4, pi. 1 16. Stew.art. 



Synanlhedon Cynipiformis, H'ubner ; Vcrz. bek. Schm. Sphinx Tijiuliformis, Bcrkcnbout. 



$ i'/iAin.r (or A'csto) f7L,9/»-(/oi-»us, Esper ; (Der Naturforscher, St. 1 Sphinx Tenlhrediniformis, Hiibncr (teste Curtis); Haworth ; 

 vii.) Borkhausen ; Hiibncr ; Ernst ; Haworth. Prodr. 



Synanlhedon QHslriforme, Nc.vnian. ! 



This Lenutiful insect measures from i- to nearly an inch in the expansion of the fore wings. It is blue-black, 

 the head witli a white stripe in front, and the collar is yellow, as are also the palpi, which have a black line on 

 the outside. The thorax a yellow stripe on each side, and the breast has a yellow spot on each side ; the 

 abdomen with a mark at the base, and three yellow bands, the last of which is double in the male ; the fan tail 

 in the female broad and yellow, but narrow and black above in the male. The wings have the veins and mart^ins 

 brown, glossed with blue and fulvous, and a transverse, lunate, central spot of orange margined with black on 



