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BROAD-BORDERED BEE HAWK-MOTH. 
Sesia Fudformis. 
PLATE XII. Fig. 3. 
Spliinx Fuciformis, Finn. ; Donovan, iii. PI. 87 Sesia Bom- 
bylifonnis, Stephens' lUus Clear-winged Humming-bird 
Sphinx, Harris. 
To the short and robust body of the preceding 
genus, Sesia adds the distinctive character of clear 
transparent -nings ; and is easily distinguished from 
the two following genera, with which it has tins 
property in common, by the ovate hairy abdomen 
and sphinx-like form, as well as by the caudal horn 
of the caterpillar. Tire antennre thicken from the 
base nearly to the apex, which terminates in an 
oblique two-jointed seta ; and the proboscis is very 
long and spiral. The species named fuciformis, 
from the resemblance of the body to that of a drone- 
bee, expands from eighteen to upwards of twenty 
lines. The colour of the body is yellowish or olive- 
green, the third and fourth segments of the abdo- 
men deep-red, and the two following yellow ; the 
tuft at the extremity black at the sides, and yellow 
in the middle. The wings are vitreous and irides- 
