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The moth, which flies about twilight, has the head and thorax olive-brown, with a 



white line on the sides. The abdomen is 

 greenish-olive inclining to a reddish hue on 

 the sides, and with black and white patches. 

 The fore-wings are deep greenish-olive, with 

 a buff-coloured band extending almost the 

 whole length to the tip ; on the outer mar- 

 gin another broad band or stripe of a dull 

 ashy colour. The hind wings small and 

 black, with a rose-coloured broad central 

 band deepening towards the body, and 

 having there a white spot ; the hinder 

 Eig. 2o. margin fringed with white. 



The moth expands about two and three-quarter inches. 



10. Deilephila lixeata, Fabricius. 



Sphinx lineata, Fabricius. 

 " daucus, Cramer. 

 " lineata, Smith &, Abbot, Ins. Ga. 

 " " Donovan. 

 Deilephila daucus, Stephens. 



Walker, C. B. M. Lep., Part YIII., page 171. 

 " lineata, Clemens, Syn. N. A., Sph. 

 " " Morris, Syn. N. A., Lep. Sm. Ins., page 164. 



" " Harris, Ins. Inj. Veg., page 328. 



" " Grote, 1865. 



Mr. Riley's description is given of this larva, which seems to vary exceedingly : 



Fig. 24. 



" The most common form is given at figure 24. Its colour is yellowish-green, ^vith 

 a prominent subdorsal row of elliptical spots, each spot consisting of two curved black 

 lines, enclosing superiorly a bright crimson space, and inferiorly a pale yellow line — the 

 whole row of spots connected by a pale yellow stripe edged above with black. In some 

 specimens these eye-like spots are disconnected, and the space between the black crescents 

 is of a uniform cream colour. The breathing holes are either surrounded with black or 

 with black edged with yellow. The other form is black, and characterized chiefly by a 

 yeUow line along the back, and a series of pale yellow spots, and darker yellow dots as 



