
AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 
SPECIES 1.—CHGROCAMPA NERII. THE OLEANDER HAWK-MOTH. 
Plate v. fig. 1—3. 
SyvnonyMeEs.—Sphine Nervi, Linneus; Rosel, Ins. Belust. v. 35 | Daphnis Nerii, Hiibner (Verz. bek. Schm.) ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. 
t. 15, 16 5 Stephens, Ent. Mag. vol. i. 525, and Tllust. Haust. 4, p. | pl. 626. 
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o04 5 Wood, pl. 52, f. 37; Ernst. 3, pl. 104, f. 153, a—f. 
Deilephila Nerii, Ochsenheimer. 
Metopsilus Nerii, Duncan, Brit. Moths, pl. 9. 
This magnificent recent addition to our native Sphingide measures about 44 inches in the expansion of its 
fore wings, of which the ground colour is an olive-green, varied with shades of rosy ochre and white. At the 
base is a pale spot bearing a dark dot, succeeded by a large patch of deep green, rounded externally and edged 
with white ; then follows a broad pinkish rose bar, extending obliquely across the wing, bearing several pale and 
dark-green dashes, and terminated in an angulated dark-brown stripe, edged with white towards the costa, and 
with a short white stripe running obliquely to the tip of the wing; the hinder angle is darker, and varied with 
shades of brown and greenish ; the hind wings are dark at the base; the anal margin whitish, separated from 
the rest of the wing by a black stripe ; across the middle of the wing runs a slender white sinuous bar ; the outer 
margin dark-green, except at the anal angle, which is pale coloured. The antenne are pale. The head and 
thorax dark-green, the latter with a cross line in front ; the sides and hind part paler. The abdomen is greenish- 
brown, with the base and the upper side of the terminal segment dark. 
The immature caterpillar is of a nearly uniform ochre-yellow colour, but when full grown it is pale- 
green, with a white lateral stripe extending from the fourth segment to the tail, which is short, deflexed, and 
rugose. The body beneath this line, and the anterior and anal segments, are yellowish-green ; the third segment 
with a large blue patch on each side, composed of a double white pupil and a black iris; the spiracles are 
black, bordered with yellow, and the fore feet are blue-black. As its specific name implies, it feeds on the Rose 
bay (Nerium oleander) ; it is, however, occasionally found on the lesser periwinkle. 
The first recorded capture of this species was made at Dover, by a lady, in the beginning of September 1833, 
as mentioned by Mr. Stephens (in the Entomological Magazine, vol. 1. p. 525) ; by whom, however, its admis- 
sion as a native species was doubted, on the ground that the Oleander was not a native plant. But as it also 
feeds on the Vinca minor, I do not hesitate to regard it as indigenous, especially as a caterpillar of it was 
found in a garden at Teignmouth, in August 1832, and communicated to the late Captain Blomer ; the peri- 
winkle being abundant in the garden where it was found. A third instance of its occurrence at Van, near 
Barnstable, Devon, has been communicated to me by W. Raddon, Esq. On the Continent it is widely dis- 
tributed, extending as far as India, and frequenting the south of Europe ; being common in the neighbourhood 
of Genoa, Turin, &c. Occasionally, however, it occurs in great numbers in more northern latitudes; thus in 
1835 it abounded almost all over France, as we learn from various articles published in the Annales de la Société 
Entomologique de France, &c. 
SPECIES 2.—CHGROCAMPA CELERIO. THE SILVER-STRIPED HAWK-MOTH. 
Plate v. fig. 4—6. 
; P . sd a WET o arn to ots 98 
Synonymes.— Sphinx Celerio, Linntus; Donovan, Brit. Ins. 6, Phatena gg Saietaee Harris, Expomton, pl. 28, f. 1. 
1. 190, 191: Haworth Metopsilus Celerio, Duncan, Brit. Moths, pl. 10. 
p . . ; v 9 : - 
a. . ee i ', "5 107 lervo ubner, Verz. bek. Schm. 
Deilephila Celerio, Ochsenheimer, Curtis, Stephens ; Wood, Ind. | Hippotion Celerio, Hiibner, Verz, bek. Schm 
Ent. t. 4, f. 17. . 
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The expansion of the fore wings varies from 2% to 3inches. The ground-colour of the wings is brownish 

