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BREEZE CLEAR-UNDERWING. 
^geria Asiliformis. 
PLATE Xlir, Pig. 2, 
Sphinx Asiliformis, Donovan^ xi. PI. 384. — Sesia CEstriformis, 
Kirby and Spence's Intro, i. PI. iii. fig. 2. — ^geria Asilifor- 
mis, Fabr.y StepJiCTiSy Curtis, 
^GERiA has rather long antenna?, very slender at 
the base, and thickening gradually almost to the 
tip, which terminates in a minute joint hearing a 
tuft of hair. The suctorial trunk is ILkenise of 
considerable length ; and the palpi, which are tri- 
articulate and densely clothed with hairs and scales, 
stand out from the head and diverge from each 
other. The abdomen is slender and cyhndric, and 
terminates in a slightly trilobed anal tuft. Nearly 
a dozen different kinds are included in our indi- 
genous lists, of which one of the most oonspicuous 
is that of which the synonymy has been given 
above. It differs from all the rest, in having the 
superior wings opaque or ahuost entirely elothed 
with scales: tlic body is blue-black, somewhat 
shining, the head wth two white spots before the 
eyes and a yellow belt beliind ; the tliorax with a 
yellow mark on each side, and a point of the same 
colour at the origin of the prinnaiy wings ; the 
