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next the costa, hind ^yings Myous ; with the base, a central broad fascia (occasionally slightly spotted with luteons),
and a broad apical margin blackish-brown, the margin itself with a row of small luteons spots ; body brown varied
with luteons, thorax above leaden-coloured, with two rich brown sti-caks on each side ; tlie face upon the back much
more varied in its eolom-s than m the other species of this snb-genns, the forehead and nose very slender, white
or whitish ; eyes black, ears rich bro^™, cheeks leaden, mouth very wide and waved ferruginous, moustachios and
beard blackish-brown, shghtly gi-ey ; upper side of the abdomen bro™, each segment with a large central leadencoloured
spot and with a lateral Inteous spot; legs broad, amiulatcd with fulvous.
Expansion of the fore wmgs of the female, 5 inches.
Inhabits various pai-ts of the East Indies, Ceylon, &c. Commimicated by Col. Hearsey and R. Templeton, Es<i.
Sj-n. Acherontia Satanas ? Bdv. Hist. Nat. Lep. PI. IB, fig. 1. (fig. parva, sine descriptione).
Obsekvation.—This species seems closcly allied to the East Indian Sphinx Lachesis Fabr., especially
in its dark hind wrings; biit the chai-acter "abdomine nigro flavo fesciato,^' will not agree with
the insect here figured. I possess a manuscript reference of this Fabrician insect to Sphinx ("morti
signahs, Cr, xx.—237,") by the late Professor Weber of Keil.
FIGITKE 3.
SPHINX (ACHERONTIA) STYX. WESTW.
Sphinx alis anticis fuscis, plumbeo u'roratis nigroque variegatis et undatis, apieeque luteo et ferrugiueo magis
varns, stigmate parvo luteo, undnlis albidis pone medium ad costam magis conspicuis ; alis posticis fiilvis, fasciis
duabus nigricantibus : I ma, angnsta mediana; 2nda, ufrinque dentata snbmaa-gmali ; corpore fusco, thorace supra
lateribus plumbeis utrmqne strigis duabus nigris ; fignra dorsali faciei coloris fusei ferS uniformis, oculis parvis
nigris, postice Innuk nigra (striam curvatam phnnbeam includente) cineta; abdomine fulvo ; segmento sino-ulo
maciJa parva qnadrata plumbea dorsali incism-isque fuscis ; pedibns angustis luteo annnlatis.
Sphmx with the fore wings brown, irrorated with leaden-coloured scales and variegated-and waved with black
the extremity of the wing bemg more vai-ied with Inteous and feiTnginous; stigma small and Inteous and with a
double row of whitish undulated streaks beyond the middle of the wing, most conspicuous next tlie costa ; hind
wings fulvous with two blacldsh fascice, the first narrow and centi-al, the second toothed on each side and sub-m.Trginal;
body brown, upper surface of the thorax leaden-colom-ed at the sides, with two black streaks on each side,
the dorsal face-like mark nearly of an uniform dull reddish-brown colour, with two small black eyes, posteriorly
margined by a black Innule including a slender leaden-coloin-ed curved line ; abdomen fulvous, each segment with
a small square dorsal leaden spot and with the articulations brown ; legs naiTow, annulated with luteous.
Expansion of the fore wings, inches.
Inhabits the East Indies. Communicated by Col. Heai-sey.
Obseuvations.—This species is most nearly allied to Sphinx Atropos, but differs from it in its
smaller size^ in the uniform colour, of the face-like marking on the back of the thorax, and in the
slenderness of the limbs.
The plant represented in the Plate is the Javanese Orchidaceous Acanthophippium Javanicum.
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