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IIEPIALUS LIGNIVORUS. 
PLATE VIII. Figs. 1, 2, 3. 
Hepialus lignlvoren, Lewin's Nat. Hist. Lepid. of Nttv South 
Wales, pi. 16. 
Examples have been already given of British He- 
piali, * vi^ith some account of their general habits. 
The foreign species are pretty numerous, and some 
of them remarkable for their size. This is the case 
in particular with H. crassus (Drury's Exot. Ins., 
vol. iii. pi. 2, fig. 1), a native of Sierra Leone, 
which measures upwards of half a foot between the 
tips of the wings. They are in general of very 
plain colours, but the species figured on the plate 
above referred to is a striking exception in this 
respect. It is in fact a highly ornamental insect, 
the fore wings being of a brilliant yellowish-green, 
divided into two patches by a waved band of a 
faint ferruginous colour, intersected by dusky, and 
several acute points of scarlet ; there are some short 
marks of the same colour on the anterior edge. 
The posterior wings are reddish flesh-colour, tinged 
with, blue at the base, the abdominal margin with a 
black stripe. 
* Nat. Lib. Ent., vol. iv. p. 179. 
