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confluent. The antenne in this species are black, and considerably shorter than in the others, with the extremity 
much less strongly curved. 
The caterpillar is described by Esper as greenish, with the head and fore legs black ; the others green, a 
whitish stripe down the back, and a row of black spots on the side. It is said to feed on the trefoil. 
Mr. Stephens captured a number of specimens of this species at the end of June in West Horsley Park, 
Surrey. There is also a specimen in the cabinet of the Zoological Society (formerly Mr. Vigors’) from a 
different locality ; and I possess a specimen taken by myself, but I do not recollect the place of capture. 

SPECIES 5.—ANTHROCERA HIPPOCREPIDIS. 
SyNONYMES. 

Sphinx Hippocrepidis, Hiibner, Sph. pl. 17, fig. 83 | Sphinx Loti, Hiibner, Sph. pl. 5, f. 32 9. 
& ; Stephens, Illust.; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 4, fig. 6, (Anthrocera, H.) | 
This species varies considerably in the expansion of the fore wings, from 13 to 19 lines. The-wings above 
are of a black blue, with six red spots, the sixth being generally small, with a coloured vein running through it ; 
on the under side the red spots are all confluent. The hind wings are red, with an undulated greenish-blue 
margin. The abdomen is blue-black, without any spots. This species varies considerably in having the spots 
more or less confluent or obliterated; and sometimes the spots are of a pale lemon-yellow colour, as in the 
specimen figured by Wood above referred to. 
The caterpillar is greenish, with the sides marked by a broad yellowish stripe and a row of black dots, and 
the head varied with white. It feeds on the wild liquorice. 
Mr. Stephens states that he has taken this species at Coombe Wood, on the 20th June, 1810, and near 
Darenth wood. In France it has only been found on the borders of Switzerland. I have introduced this and the 
two other species (A. Loti and Meliloti) on the authority of a statement made to me by Mr. Stephens, within 
the last few days, founded upon a careful comparison of German specimens brought over by Dr. Becker of 
Wiesbaden, with those in Mr. Stephens’ own Cabinet, described in his Hlustrations. 
Spuinx Prucepanit of Esper, has been introduced as a native species by Wilkes, under the name of 
Sph. filipendule, from which it is at once distinguished by having the tips of the antenne white, and a red belt 
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across the abdomen. It is figured by Wood in the Index Entomologicus, t. 53, fig. 21, amongst the doubtful 
British species. 
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