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J. J. EeadiDg's Catalogue of the 
Generally rare, but occurring some seasons abundantly, when it 
may be caught at morning and evening twilight, hovering over 
flowers of the petunia kind. 
App. — September and October. 
Log. — In and around Plymouth ; Saltash ; Beerferris ; Tavistock ; 
Liskeard; Truro; — Barnstaple and Crediton, G. F. M.; Exeter, 
E. P. ; Torquay, R. B. B. ; Falmouth, Faun. Fal. 
Hybernated specimens or examples from backward pupce are found 
in June, July, and August. 
62. S. Xiig-UStri, Lin. 
Sphinx Ligustri, Lin, Sys. Nat. ii. 799. — Wood. Ind. Ent, t. 4, fig. 12. — 
West. & Hum. Brit. Moth. i. 13, pi. 3, fig. 4-6.— Staint. Man. i. 90. 
Common. 
App. — June and July. 
Least rare of the family. Occurring in almost every locality 
throughout Devon and Cornwall. The caterpillars feed upon the 
privet, lilac, elder, ash, and laurustinus, and are full fed in August 
and September. 
Gen. DX:ZX.ESFKIX.A, Och. 
63. D. Euphorbiae, Lin. 
Sphinx Euphorlice, Lin. Sys. Nat. ii. 802. 
Deilephila Euphorhice, Wood. Ind. Ent. pi, 4, fig. 14. — West. & Hum. 
Brit. Moth. i. 16, pi. 4, fig, 1-4.— Staint. Man. i. 92. 
Very rare. 
The most recent capture of this species is recorded by Dr. W. P. 
Cocks, in his Contributions to the Falmouth Fauna." It is stated 
therein that an example was "procured in 1847, near Treworles, 
Pendower Sands." 
This insect, now the rarest species of the genus, was formerly the 
commonest. The late Mr. Eaddon, of Barnstaple, in 1814, found 
hundreds of the larva3 on the sea spurge ( euphorbia} paralias J , 
growing on the sand-hills of Braunton Burrows. But Mr. G. F. 
Mathews informs me that this moth is "no longer found in the 
larval state on Braunton Burrow sand-hills, nor has it occurred 
since the time of Raddon, and may now be looked upon as extinct." 
