THE SPURGE SPHINX. 

 Sphina: Euphorbite. —Evkove. 



PLATE LXIV. 



Sphinx Euphorbia;, iinre. St/st. Nat. ii. p. 802. — S/irtw'« 



Nat. Miscellany, pi. 922 Drury^s Im. Exot. i. pi. 29, 



fig. 3 Reaumur's Ins. i. pi. 1 3. fig. 1, 4, 5, 6 Turton's 



Linne, iii. p. 173.— Donovati's Brit. Ins. iii. pi. 91, 92. 



The superior, or upper wings, are of a rich fawn 

 colour, witli the anterior margins of a brilliant leek- 

 green, and a large cloud of the same colour towards 

 their insertion into the body, and two semilunar 

 spots nearer the tips of the wings ; there is a double 

 articulate black band, with a Icek-grccn centre, 

 towards their posterior margins, bounded by a border 

 of brownish purple ; the under wings have a black 

 bar at their insertion, bounded by a band of rich 

 crimson, below which is a band of black, and a border 

 of pale chestnut ; the anterior and posterior margins 

 of both upper and under wings are white, fimbriated 

 at their edges. The body is thick, of a rich leek- 

 green ; the whole, from the head downwards, edged 

 with pale chestnut ; and two spots of the same on the 

 back, above which are two white spots. The eyes are 

 white, and the antenna; chestnut, and club-shaped. 



The Spurge Sphinx, considered as a native of 

 Britain, is, without exception, the rarest species of 

 the genus. 



