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the outside. The tibie and tarsi are yellow, the former with a ring of black near the tips. In some specimens ! 
the first segment of the abdomen has a yellow patch on each side, and between the second and third fascie is an q 
indistinct slender line of yellow scales. 
taken in the woods of Surrey and Kent, in the London district, near Cheltenham, in the Clapham Park Wood, 
Bedfordshire ; and my specimen was obtained by Mr. Weaver, with others from Shropshire. 
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Various localities are recorded for this species (the sexes of which are so much unlike). It has been ta 
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I have followed Ochsenheimer and Stephens in the nomenclature of this species, it being customary in cases 
where the sexes have been described under different names to elect that of the male, although that of the other 
sex may have the priority in point of date. 
The larvee is whitish, with a brown head, and is found under the bark of the oak and birch; the imago 
appears in June. , 

SPECIES 5.—TROCHILIUM TIPULIFORME. 
Plate vii. fig. 9. 
Synonymes.— Sphinx (Sesia, or Aigeria) Tipuliformis, Linnzeus ; | Ent. t. 4, f. 32. Hubner; sper; Ochsenheimer ; Laspeyres, &c. 
Fabricius ; Donovan, Brit. Ins. v. 2, pl.52,53. Haworth ; Stewart ; | Trochilium Tipuliforme, Scopoli; Newman. 4 
Harris Exposition, pl. 111, fig. 8. Stephens; Curtis; Wood, Ind. Bembecia Tipuliformis, Hiibner ; Verz. bek. Schm, 1 

This, the commonest British species in the genus, varies in the expansion of its fore wings, from eight to ten 
lines. The colour is blue-black ; the palpi are yellow; the antennz black ; the thorax with a yellow line on each 
slender transverse fasciw. The tibize are black, with a ring, and the tips yellow; the fore wings have the 
margins and transverse bar black, the tip dirty golden colour, with black veins. | 
The larva is of a whitish colour, with the head and feet brown, and a dark dorsal line. It feeds on the pith 
of the common currant-tree. Some which I found in the larva state in April had changed to pup in the middle 

side ; the breast with a yellow lateral spot ; the abdomen of the females with three and the males with four very . 
: 
of May, and appeared in the perfect state on the 5th of June. The moth is exceedingly active, and delights to 
settle on the broad leaves of the currant in the hot sunbeams. 

SPECIES 6.—TROCHILIUM PHILANTHIFORME. 
Plate vii. fig. 8. 
4 > . Wil a 7 T 7 yf = 
Synonymes.—Sesia Philanthiformis, Laspeyres; Ochsenheimer ; Trochilium Musceforme, Newm., Ent. Mag. 1,79. Stephens 
Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 4, fig. 31. Illust. 4, p. 385. 
Sesia Musceformis, Vieweg; Esper; but not of Borkhausen. 
The expansion of the fore wings is 4 of an inch. The colour is black ; the palpi are whitish, with a line on 
the outside, and the tips black ; the antennz brown, paler in the middle, but black at the tips ; the thorax has a 
stripe of luteous on each side ; the abdomen black ; with five or six yellowish belts; the fan tail black, with 
the tibize black, with the middle and tips yellowish ; the tarsi dirty yellow ; the fore wings have | 
yellow sides ; 
ack ; there is also a second black transverse fascia, beyond which is a 

the veins, margins, and transverse fascia bl 
yellow patch. 
1 in Devonshire. 
Mr, Stephens’ unique specimen of this insect was taker 

