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SPECIES 3.—DEILEPHILA LIVORNICA. THE STRIPED HAWK-MOTH. 
Plate iv. fig. 6—8, 
Synonymrs.—Accipitrina Livornica, Petiver, Gaz. pl. £2,509.) | Sphinx Kochlini, Fuesslys Archiv., pl. 4. 
Sphinx Livornica, Hiibner, Sphing. pl. 12, f. 15. Deilephila lineata, Ochsenheimer ; Curtis (1st edit.); Steph., Il. 
Deilephila Livornica, Curtis, Brit. Ent. No. 1, 2d edit. p.3 | H. 1, pi. 12, f. 1 ; Duncan, Brit. Moths, p. 152, (but not the Sphinx 
verso ; Stephens, Catal.; Wood, Ind. Ent. t. 4, f. 16. lineata of Fabricius and Donovan, which is the Sphinx Daucus of 
Phryxus Livornica, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. Cramer, and which is figured by Wood in the Ind. Ent. t. 53, f. 27.) 

This handsome species is equally rare with the preceding. The expansion of its fore wings is 31 inches ; 
their upper surface is of an olive brown colour, with a rather broad pale stripe extending across the wing from 
near the base of the inner margin to the tip ; a whitish subtriangular discoidal spot in the middle, and another 
beyond the middle, indicate the oblique short subcostal bars of the preceding species ; the apical margin is 
ashy. This species is, however, strikingly distinguished by having the veins of the wings forming slender 
whitish streaks. The hind wings are pale rosy-pink, with the base and a submarginal fascia black ; the anal 
margin being clothed with white hairs. The head and thorax are olive-brown, margined with white ; the latter 
with two short white dorsal streaks, and the hind part paler. The abdomen is much more varied than in the 
two preceding species ; a pale narrow line running down the back, intersecting the small white patches (margined 
with black in the middle of each segment at the base) ; the sides of the abdomen being also ornamented with 
large white patches, spotted at the base with black. The antenne are brown, tipped with white. 
The caterpillar is of an olive-green or yellow tint, spotted with black ; the head, a stripe down the back, 
two rows of lateral spots, and the tail rose-coloured above, but black beneath ; the belly white, and a longi- 
tudinal line on each side below the spiracles pale yellow, It feeds on the lady’s bed-straw, the Sonchus arvensis, 
and the common vine. It is full-fed at the end of July, and the moth appears at the end of August. Mr. 
Stephens, however, mentions the capture of a very perfect and fine specimen in June. 
There are but very few instances on record of the capture of this fine species in this country ; Norfolk, near 
London, Kingsbridge in Devon, and Cornwall (Haworth), are the only localities given by our English writers. 
DerILepHita LINEATA, Fab. (Sph. Daucus, Cramer), as mentioned in the synonymes of the preceding species, 
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has been confounded with D. Livornica. It is, however, perfectly distinct, being a native of North America, and 
at once distinguished (as correctly described by Fabricius) by possessing six instead of four white lines on the 
thorax. The larve also differ, according to Dr. Harris. 

CHGEROCAMPA, Duponcuet. 
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This genus was established in 1835 by M. Duponchel in the supplement to Godart, to receive those Sphingide 
which have the head and fore part of the body retractile; the head being very small, and the first three segments 
abruptly diminishing in size from the fourth, which gives to the fore part of the body a resemblance to the head 
and mouth of a hog. Hence the French name of the larve, cochonnés ; and the generic name proposed by 
Duponchel, which is derived from yoipos, a hog, and kar, a caterpillar. This peculiarity seems to have 
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