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OLEANDER HAWK-MOTH. 
and some other parts of the continent M’here the 
insect is found, it no douht feeds on others of more 
common occturence, perhaps, as has heen conjec- 
tured, the Vinca tnajor, V. minor, or some species 
of Cymnchum, all of which belong to the same 
natural family of Apocyncw* 
This magnificent moth, wliich we have now the 
pleasure to figure for the first time as a British 
species, has been taken at least on two dilferent 
occasions in this country; once in the vicinity of 
Dover, as intimated by Mr. Stephens in the Ento- 
mological Magazine for October 1832 ; and a second 
time, in the larva state, in a garden at Teignmouth, 
Devon, in the autumn of the same year.t As the 
insect is occasionally found in the neighbouring 
continental countries, extending as far northwards 
as the northern regions of Germany, the propriety 
of admitting it into our native Fauna cannot be 
attended ■with the same doubts that apply to such 
kinds as have their principal seat in the new world. 
It is strictly a European species, and from what we 
know of its occurrence elsewhere, it might reason- 
abl}' be inferred tliat the southern parts of England 
should fall ■within the range of its distribution. It is 
observed from time to time in tlie vicinity of Paris, 
but its principal resort seems to be the neighbour- 
hood of Genoa, Turin, and Nice, where it is said to 
be common. 
Loudon’s Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. 155, 
+ Ent. Mag. ii. p. 116, 
