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by two silvery-wliite lines ; a black submarginal line, and marginal speckled linulai^ 

 lines, and three intermediate slender indistinct silvery- white lines ; the veins below 

 the cell to oblique line black, and the median to end of cell and subcostal veins lined 

 with silvery-white ; a black streak below base of the cell; posterior margin fringed 

 with silvery-white : hindwing broadly crimson at the base, the disc black and traversed 

 by a black-veined pinkish-ochreous fascia ; outer border olivaceous-brown ; cilia 

 silvery-white. Sides of thorax, head, palpi, and legs above lilacine-white ; a dorsal 

 and lateral row of silvery-white duplex streaks. 



Expanse 2-|- to 3 inches. 



Larva green, or purplish-brown. On fifth and sixth segments are two round 

 black ocellated spots dotted with yellow and encircled by a yellow ring, those on fifth 

 segment the largest ; horn brown, slender and straight. Feeds on Vine. 



Genus XYLOPHANES. 



XylopTianes, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 136 (1818-25). 

 Wings comparatively shorter and broader than in Hippotion (Gelerio) : forewing 

 with the first subcostal emitted at one-third and second at one-sixth before end of the 

 cell, fifth at a short distance beyond end of the cell; discocellular oblique, nearly 

 straight, slightly bent below the radial; middle median at one-sixth and lower at 

 one-half before end of the cell : hindwing similar. Body more robust ; palpi less 

 projected and broader in front (X. Oldenlandice). 



XYLOPHANES OLDENLANDI.a: (Plate 85, Fig. 1, la, larva). 



Sphinx Oldenlandice, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 148 (1781) ; Lewin, Prod. Eat. p. 4, pi. 3; Thon, Ent. 



Archiv. pt. i. p. 6, pi. 1, f. 3. 

 Chcerocampa Oldenlandice, Walker, Catal. Lap. Het. B. M. viii. p. 142 (1856); Moore, Catal. Lep. 



Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 278, pi. 11, fig. 4, 4a; Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 559, pi. 91, f. 1; 



Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. p. 242. 

 Xylophanes Gortys, Hiibner, Samml. Ent. Schmett. Zutriige, fig. 513-14 (1825). 



Greyish ohve-brown : forewing with very prominent darker brown lines extending 

 obliquely from the apex, the three inner lines forming one dark band, the fifth and 

 sixth fine curved inward, the fifth broader than the others, the outer lines composed 

 of speckles ; a black spot at end of the cell, and some indistinct black-speckled 

 lunular streaks below ^the subcostal vein ; the lower basal area and interspaces 

 between the medial lines pale ochreous-grey : hindwing dusky brown, with a dull 

 pale ochreous-brown submarginal fascia. Sides of thorax, head, palpi, and legs above 

 lilacine-white ; middle of thorax grey ; two silvery-white longitudinal dorsal lines ; 

 tegulge and sides of abdomen streaked with golden-yellow scales. 



Expanse 2j to 3 inches. 



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