J52 
RAYED HAWK-MOTH. 
DeUepliUa Lineata, 
Steph. Ulus. Haus. i. 126, PI. 12, fig. 1.— Sphinx lineata, Fabru 
ciw5.— Sphinx Livornica, Hvbner and Esper. 
Larger than either of the preceding, but not 
strikingly dissimilar, the colours being distributed 
somewhat after the same manner. The upper wings 
are olive-brown, traversed by seven white nervures, 
and having an angular patch of the same colom in 
the centre of each : the hinder border is cinereous 
and somewhat shining, and a yellowish band com- 
mences at the origin of the internal border and runs 
obliquely along the wing to the apex. The hinder 
wings and the thorax are nearly as in D. Galii ; 
but the thorax bears two white rays in the centre, 
which are abbreviated and convergent in front. The 
abdomen is olive-brown, each of the segments with 
a white border anteriorly, which is spotted with 
black. The antennee are brown, with the tip 
white. 
The caterpillar, which seems not to have been 
hitherto noticed in this country, is described by the 
continental naturalists as yellow inclining to olive, 
