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BRITISH MOTHS 

 SPECIES n.-TROCH ILIUM MYOPiEFORME. 



Plate vii. fi}?. 11. 



SvNONYMES. — Sphinx Myopieformis, Borkhausen ; Newmau, 

 (Conopia My.) 



Sesia Miitilla-formis, Laspcyres ; Stcpliens ; Curtis ; Wood, Ind. 

 Kilt., lab. 4, f. Xo ; Ochsenheimer, Boisduval. 



Sphinx Culiciformis, Hiibner, Spiling., pi. ", fig. 45 ; Haworth ; 

 Esper. 



Sph. xonaius, Donovan, Brit. Ins., vol. 0, pi. 195 ; Stewart, 

 Tiirtoii. 



This species is very closely allied to the preceding, but is at once distinguished by the colour of the palpi. 

 The expansion of the fore wings varies from eight to ten lines. It is of a blue-black colour ; the head has a 

 very slender white line before tlie eyes ; the palpi are entirely black in the female, but in the males they are 

 white on the underside ; the thorax is unspotted above ; the breast has a large fulvous patch on each side. The 

 abdomen has the fourtli segment fulvous red ; this segment on the underside in the female is black, icith a white 

 margin ; but in the male it is entirely white, as well as the extremity of the abdomen. The fan-tail is 

 imspotted, the markings on the wings are black ; the tibiaa blue-black, and the tarsi paler. 



This species is the most abundant of the red-belted kinds in gardens round London in Blay and June. I 

 believe it was this species which Mr. Vigors reared from the apple-trees in his garden, in Whitehead's Grove, 

 Chelsea. Mr. Newman thinks it probably feeds on the pith of the Rubus idreus. Near Hertford, Ripley, and 

 Dublin, are mentioned as its localities by Mr. Stephens. I have taken it in a sand pit near Woolwich (at the 

 beginning of June 1822), and in other places in the neighbourhood of London. 



Synonymes. — JEgeria Stomoxyformts, Stephens, 111. Haiist. 4, 

 p. 143, pi. 11, fig. 4 ; AVood, [nd. Eut., pi. 4, fig. 35. 



SPECIES 12.— TROCHILIUM STOMOXYFOP.ME ? 



Plate vii. fig. 13. 



Sphinx Slomoxi/formis, Hiibner, Spl. pi. 2, f. 47 $ ; Haworth, 

 Eiit. Trans. 1,334?? 



Conopia MyopcBformis $ , teste Newman. 



Expansion of the wings llA lines. "Blue-black head, with a slender silvery line before the eyes; palpi 

 totalh/ Hack ; thorax glossy immaculate ; breast with a fulvous patch anteriorly ; abdomen shining, with the 

 fourth segment above bright fulvous-orange, interrupted l>y a hroad dtisky black line beneath, caudal tuft 

 immaculate ; femora blue-black, tibife the same, the anterior yellowish within ; the spines black ; tarsi blue- 

 black above, yellowish beneath ; anterior wings above, with the base, costa, nervures, a broad transverse line, and 

 the apex, deep bhiish-blaok ; beneath with tlie costa at the base, the margins of the discoidal line, and the space 

 between the nervures at the aj^e-x (which are very broad and dusky-blue), bright golden fulvous ; posterior with 

 the nervures, margin, and anterior lunules, bluish-black ; beneath the same, with the costa slightly margined 

 with fulvous." This is Mr. Stephens's description of " a single specimen in beautiful condition," which he con- 

 jectures to have been taken at Darenth, having been informed that Mr. Chant possessed a pair captured 

 there on the lt>tli July, 1825, and that Mr. Davis found a specimen at Gravesend. Hiibner figures his 

 Stomoxyforrais witli two red stripes on the thorax ; and Jlr. Stephens's Latin character accords therewith, 

 but not with the Englisli character which he gives. Moreover, in the description of his plates, Mr. Stephens 

 states the specimen figured by him to be a female. Mr. Newman, however, having " carefully examined 

 the specimen described and figured by Mr. Stephens, and also those in the cabinets of Mr. Davis and 



