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SHARP-WINGED HAWK-MOTH. 
Metopsilus Cderio, 
PLATE X. 
Sphinx Celerio, Linn , ; jDonouaw, vi. PI. 190 and 191.— Deile- 
phila Celerio, Stephens. 
Expansion of the -vnngs two inches eight lines in 
the male, about three inches in the female; the 
upper wings greyish inclining to broivn, marked 
with black hues and a few whitish streaks, and 
having a white hand commencing at the inner 
margin near the base and terminating in a point at 
the apex ; the outer margin is pale grey, and there 
is a small black spot on the disk near the centre. 
The surface of the hinder wings is deep rose-colour 
at the base, the rest greyish slightly tinged with 
red, with two oblique black hands, between which 
the nervures are black ; the hinder margin pale- 
grey. The body is brownish on the back, ivith two 
white streaks from the anterior part of the head 
along each side of the thorax ; the latter with tw'o 
additional longitudinal stripes of yellow towards the 
middle ; the abdomen having a silvery white line 
