OLEANDER HAWK-MOTH. 
Metopsilus Nerii. 
PLATE IX. 
Sphinx Nerii, Linn,~~-RoseVs Insecten-^helustigun^y vol. iii. tab. xv. 
larva xvi. imago.— Sphinx du Laurier-roae, Godart ; Fap, 
de France^ vol. iii., Crqf)u$ctdaires^ p. 12. 
The primary wings of this conspicuous and elegant 
species expand upwards of tour inches. The surface 
is of a fine deep olive-green, variously shaded with 
white and rose-colour, distributed in undulating 
lines and transverse streaks. At the orighi of each 
of the upper wings there is a whitish spot with a 
dot in the centre and a small transverse streak of 
olive-green; beyond this are three whitish waved 
lines running somewhat obliquely across the surface, 
dilated at the inner margin into a rose-colotned 
patch, succeeded by a broad oblique rosy band 
extending from one side of the wing to the otlier ; 
beyond this there is a broad patch of a violet-colour 
boimded anteriorly by a white zigzag line, and 
surmounted by tw'o whitish curved lines drawn to 
the anterior edge ; the apex bears a white figure 
having some resemblance to the letter Y reversed. 
