482 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



larva bears no resemblance in colour and arrangement of spots with that of 

 hippophaes. It lives solitarily on the leaves of Epilobium augusti folium ; it was 

 found for the first time on July nth, 1825, on the banks of the Drac, a torrent near. 

 Grenoble, by Madame Amelie Vattier. The husband ol this lady found many the 

 next year at the same time, and gave them to Mr. P^eisthamel, who described the 

 larva as well as an imago that emerged towards the end of August. Mr. Prevost 

 Daval also found many larvae at the same place and at the same time, but he, too, 

 reared only one specimen. These two are the only ones known (Feisthamel). 



This hybrid is evidently the same as vespertilioides, Bdv. 

 (anted p. 49). Both Feisthamel and Boisduval appear to have 

 described the insect in the same year from specimens reared 

 independently from larvae found in the same locality. Boisduval 

 seems to have published his description in March, 1827, whilst 

 the date of Feisthamel's publication appears to be June, 1827, but 

 neither is at all certain, nor does either author say a word to show 

 that he knew anything about the other's records and experiences. 



phryxus livornica, Esper (Vol. iv., p. 147). 



[Page I49-J Phryxus var. livornicoides, Lucas, " Proc. Roy. Soc. Queens- 

 land," hi., pp. 73-74 (1891); Roths. & Jordan, " Revis. of Sphing.," p. 734 (1903). 

 ? Australasiae, Tutt, "Brit. Lep.," iv., antea p. 149 (1903). — $ 55mm., ? 75mm. 

 Male: Head creamy-drab, with a patch of olive-fuscous on crown and narrowing along 

 face. Palpi creamy-drab, bordered with fuscous. Antennae olivaceous-creamy- 

 drab on undei surface. Thorax olive-fuscous, with a creamy-drab line anteriorly 

 over dorsum, and laterally nearly as far as forewings. Abdomen olive-drab ; base 

 of segments with a band of creamy-drab, broader on fore segments, narrowing 

 to a line in posterior segments ; each line banded with a short black stripe on 

 either side of dorsum ; the two anterior lines are covered laterally with a broad band 

 of black. Forewings triangular, costa straight, rounded at apex, hind margin 

 rounded, creamy-drab, with two long bands of dark olive-fuscous, crossed by 

 bands of ground colour along the veins ; costal line light olive-fuscous ; space 

 between costal line and 1st band lighter fuscous; 1st band from entire base of 

 wing parallel to costa, narrowing at § to a point just before apex ; the 2nd baud 

 from a base \ to f inner margin, gradually narrows parallel to hindmargin to a point 

 at apex ; an olive-fuscous hindmarginal line ; cilia light drab. Hindwings fuscous- 

 black at base, rosy-pink in middle third, and with a broad fuscous-black band 

 near, but not touching, hindmargin ; hindmarginal line creamy-grey ; cilia as 

 forewings. One specimen ; Toowoomba. Female: I 'ead and thorax olive-fuscous 

 with a white drab line from face on either side along base of antenna, and along 

 side of dorsum giving off a bunch of white-drab hairs at base of fore wing; a white- 

 drab line midway between bases of antenna?, early dividing into two, and narrowly 

 diverging on either side of centre of dorsum ; a line to outer side of this on either 

 side, thus being 6 lines on thorax similar to D. linearis (sic), Fab., of America. 

 The abdomen is rich chocolate-fuscous, with lines of segments yellow-fuscous, 

 each line crossed by a narrow bar of black immediately on either side of dorsum, 

 and laterally by a broad bar of black. Wings as S . One specimen, Rockhampton. 

 This species differs from D. livornica, Esp., in lacking the white stripes on 

 thorax in 3 , in lacking the row of white dots and stripes on abdomen, and in 

 the different ground colour of wings. The markings on thorax and abdomen are 

 quite different and vary in the sexes (Lucas). 



This appears to be possibly the variety which we have named 

 australasiae, n. var. (antea, p. 149). The latter name, therefore, if this 

 were so, would fall as a synonym of /ivomieoides. Our variety, however, 

 has the normal thoracic markings of P. livornica, and has nothing to 

 do with lineata. 



Hyles euphorbia, Linnd (Vol. iv., p. 202). 



Rothschild and Jordan (Revision of the Sfhingidae, pp. 715 et 

 sea.) have an omnibus species euphorbiae, which they subdivide into 

 10 subspecies, 3 local forms, and 4 aberrations. Most of the subspecies 

 are by other authors considered as species, and are— daiilii, Hb.-Gey., 

 titliymali, Bdv., inauretanica, Staud., eitpiiorbiae, Linn., conspicua 



