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slightly shagreened, but showing some gloss ; the 

 colour dull drab, with the spiracles, wing nervures, 

 and a line on the belly from the head to the end of the 

 wings, all dark brownish. (J. H., 18, 11, 86.) 



Sesia fcjciformis. 

 Plate XXVI, fig. 3. 



Mr. Buckler's figures were taken July 17th and 

 23rd, 1866 ; the larvae were feeding on honeysuckle ; 

 " just before changing to pupae they became dark 

 brown ; " the moth was bred June 22nd, 1867. These 

 larvae came from Mr. H. Doubleday, and I had some 

 from him at the same time ; and on another occasion 

 Mr. Doubleday sent me some moths, which he had suc- 

 ceeded in setting out before their wings had lost their 

 scales. 



On July 22nd, 1886, Mr. G-. T. Porritt sent me four 

 larvae on honeysuckle, from 18 to 22 mm. long, and 

 just at their last moult ; and on August 9th Mr. 

 W. H. B. Fletcher sent me six larvae, so I was well 

 supplied. I found they would eat leaves of any of the 

 garden varieties of honeysuckle ; the flowers they did 

 not seem to touch. On August 2nd the most advanced 

 of my larvae began to spin, and soon afterwards became 

 a pupa, but with most of the rest I was not successful. 



Mr. W. H. Harwood informs me he has watched 

 the female moth ovipositing ; like Macroglossa stella- 

 tarum it remains all the while on the wing, and curls 

 up the abdomen so as to place the egg on the under- 

 side of a leaf. 



The larvae I had this summer were set with rough 

 points before their last moult, otherwise much as 

 when described afterwards. The full-grown larva is 

 about 35 mm, long, stoutest at segments 9 and 10, 

 tapering forwards, but not rapidly ; the face slightly 

 wider at the mouth than above, the lobes set with some 





