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16 BRITISH MOTHS 
GENUS IV. 
DEILEPHILA *, Ocusennermer. 

The spiral tongue of this genus is considerably smaller in size than in the preceding ; the abdomen shorter, and 
more acute at the tip ; the wings comparatively shorter, the anterior ones not having the tips produced into an acute 
subfalcate point ; the hinder margin slightly, but regularly, rounded, and the hinder angle obtuse and not 
rounded off as in the next genus ; the hind wings are also broader than in the latter ; the antenne are rather short, 
and very clavate at the tips, which are terminated by a hook, ending in a very slender hair ; the spiral tongue 
is much shorter than in the preceding genus, The abdomen is only marked with interrupted dark fasciz at the 
base, the other segments having only slender pale lateral bands. The chief character of the genus, however, as 
distinguished from the following, with which it has been generally united, consists in the peculiar form of the 
larva, which has the sides of the body elegantly marked with pale spots of different size, and in not having the 
anterior segments retractile ; the caudal horn is short and rugose ; and the pupa state is passed at a short 
distance beneath the surface of the ground. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE IV. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Deilephila Euphorbix (the spotted Hawk-moth). 2, The Caterpillar. 3. The Chrysalis. 
Fig. 4. Deilephila Galii (the madder Hawk-moth). 5. The Caterpillar. 
sf Fig. 6. Deilephila lineata (the rayed Hawk-moth). 7. The Caterpillar. 8. The Chrysalis. 
Prants.—Fig. 9, Euphorbia Paralias (sea-spurge). 
ut Fig. 10. Galium verum (the yellow lady’s-bedstraw). 
os Mig. 11. Galium Mollugo (wild madder). 
The insects in this plate are all three from specimens in the British Museum. The caterpillar and chrysalis of D. Galii are from the beautiful 
plate of Fiiessly, who has given an excellent representation of the insect inits three stages. H.N. H. 
SPECIES 5.—DEILEPHILA EUPHORBIZ. THE SPOTTED HAWK-MOTH. 
Plate iv. fig. l—3. 
Synonyme.—Sphine Euphorbie, Linneus; Haworth; Donovan, | Ent., Vol. 1, pl. 3; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 4, fig. 14; Duncan, Brit. 
Vol. 3, pl. 91. 92; Harris Aurelian, pl. 44, fig. a—ce ; Drury, Ins. | Moths, pl. 8. 
1, pl. 29, f. 3. Hyles Euphorbia, Wiibner (Verz. bek. Schmett.), 
Deilephila Euphorbia, Ochsenheimer ; Stephens ; Curtis, Brit. 
This beautiful species generally measures about three inches in the expansion of the fore wings, the ground 
colour of which is greenish brown, having a broad livid stripe, extending from the base of the inner edge to the 
tip, the anterior portion of which has a rosy tint, but is very irregular in its outline, a large patch of the 
ground colour being near the base, and another near the middle of the wing; the outer margin of the wing 
is also bordered with a dusky or livid rosy hue ; the base of the wings has a white patch, and the inner margin 

* This generic name is derived from the Greek detAn, the evening, and @rA€w, to love, in allusion to the twilight flight of the insects; the name 
Smerinthus is evidently from owhpwéos pro uijpwéos, a thread ; but I do not perceive the allusion ; (this name is prior to Dalman’s generic 
name Dilina, Swed. Trans. 1816: ;) and Acherontia is a fanciful name, retaining the allusion to the specific name of the Fate, Atropos, the river 
Acheron leading to the infernal regions. 
