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HARPYT^ ? BAXKSLT,. 
PLATE XVII. Fig. 2. 
Leuiii's Lcpidopterous Insects of New South Wales, pi. 9. 
We believe that this conspicuous moth has been 
referred to the genus Harpyia by Boisduval, but it 
may well be questioned wliether that be its proper 
situation. It seems to offer sufficiently distinct 
marks to form the type of a new genus. 
The male expands upwards of two inches, the 
female three inches four lines. The upper wings 
are of a leaden colour, slightly glossed with purple, 
having several black marks, and freckled here and 
there with white and orange dots, and several clouds 
and dashes of the same. The hinder wings are 
brown and glossy in the female, whitish and silvery 
in the male, the base tinged with orange. Thorax 
black, with two large white patches spotted with 
red anteriorly ; abdomen orange, with a rounded 
black spot at the side of each segment, and the 
hinder extremity black. 
The caterpillar (Plate XYII. fig. 3) is a very 
beautiful one and bears considerable resemblance to 
that of a sphinx both in form and markings. The 
