LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 29 



siores, thorace fere duplo longiores. Pedes graciles ; tibiae poste- 

 riores subpilosae. Alae angustae. Mas. — Antennae subtus pubes- 

 centes. 



Troehilium, Neivm. Ent. Mag. i. 78. 

 Bembecia, p., H'ubn. 



Body slender. Proboscis elongate. Palpi moderately long, 

 obliquely ascending, hardly pilose : third joint acuminated, not half 

 the length of the second. Antennae slender, simple, very slightly 

 thicker towards the tips, nearly twice the length of the thorax. 

 Legs slender; posterior tibiae slightly pilose. Wings narrow, 

 Fore wings with the first, second and third inferior veins nearly 

 equidistant ; third a little further from the fourth than from the 

 second ; second superior vein forked at half its length. Mate. — 

 Antennae pubescent beneath. 



39. JEgeria Tipuliformis. 



Cyaneo -nigra ; caput postice Jlavum, lateribus antice albis ; palpi 

 subtus Jiavi ; pectus fiavum ; abdomen fiavo trifasciatuni ; 

 pedes Jiavo varii ; alee limpidce, purpureo ciliatce, anticce casta 

 fascia apiceque purpureis, lineolis apicalibus flavescentibus,; 

 posticce linea costali fiava. 



-, Petiv. Gazoph. pi. 42, f. 6. Deg. Ins. ii. 1, 165, 4, 



pi. 2, f. 12. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 403, 36. Engr. Pap. 



a" Eur. iii. 41, pi. 94, f. 130. Harr. Ins. Angl. pi. 3, f. 8. 



Schceff. Icon. lis. pi. 224, f. 1, 2. 

 Sphinx Salmachus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 493, 30. Hufn. BerL 



Mag. ii. 2, 188, 19. Naturf. vii. 106. 

 Sphinx Tipuliformis, Linn. Faun. Suec. 289, 1096 ; Syst. Nat. i. 2, 



304, 32. Clerch, Icon. pi. 9, f. 31. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 157, 15 ; 



Mant. Ins. ii. 100, 18. Wien. Verz. Schmett. 44, 4. Faessl. 



A. Mag. i. 133, pi. 1, f. C ; N. Mag. ii. 2, 204,7. Esp. 



Schmett. ii. 131, pi. 15, f. 3. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2390, 



32w ///. N. Ausg. dess. i. 29, 4. H'ubn. Sphing. 88, 6, pi. 8, f. 



49; Larv. Lep. ii. Sph. ii. Hym. B. f. 2, a. Borh. Eur. 



Schmett ii. 37, 127, 168, 4 ; Rhein. Mag. i. 310, 131. Donov. 



Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. ii. pi. 52, 53. Lang. Verz. ii. 74, 590 — 



592. 

 Sesia Tipuliformis, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 385, 21. Schr. Faun. Boic. ii. 



1,234,1401. Viewey. Tab. Verz. i. 17,7. Lasp. Ses. Eur. 



28, 19. Rossi, Faun. Etr. ii. 165, 1064; Ed. Illig. 265, 1064. 



Ochs. Schmett. von Eur. ii. 171, 23. God. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. 



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