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Expansiou of the fore wings 1 iuch.
Inhabits Central India. lu the Collection of Colonel Ilearsey.
FIGURE 5.
TROCHILIUM EURYTION. WESTW.
hyiliiniilM ' '""gitodinalibns plaga.ne pono n^edinm (venis di.isa) hyalini., posticis
S r ^ e ' ^ r I I ™ -genteo-e«...descenti; capite et pronoto oJJe .neo opaeis;
^ p.Ubns nig™, ph.n.heo variegati, postieis elongatis valde Jhatis'
I t " ' , l«"gitndinal hyaline striga,, extendmg to the middle of the
T e X « n, 1, " r " = hyaline, l i t h the fringe and the
ti e segment, varied w th white scales ; legs black, variegated with leaden-colonred scales ; the hind pair elonn-ated
and densely bearded, the beard bemg formed of thm gi-ey and black hairs. °
Expansion of the fore wings, 14 lines.
Inhabits Sylhet. In the Collection of H. G. Harrmgton, Esq., and the British Mnsenm.
FIGURE 6.
TROCHILIUJI CETO. WESTW.
hyaline ante medium longitndinali; posticis hyaUnis
— & nigra lasali ; pedibus
b o d ^ , ° ' lender veins and a broLl fringe of black ;
wh t e ' r t r T " r , • middle tarsi blaek
Tcales,Intar^y L r l»''® bear-ded, the bear-d outwardly red, slightly marked with white
Expansion of the fore wings nearly IJ inch.
OBSERVATioifs.—Tliis species was commimicated to me by H. G. Harrington, Esq., as a native of
India. It IS, I beHeve lioTrever (on the antliority of specimens in tlie British Musenm), a native of
iNorth America. It has been confoinided with the Zyg. tibiaHs of Fabricius and Drnry, which is a
native of Tropical Africa. Mr. Dyson has brought another beautiful closely-allied species from
V enezuela, of which specimens are in the British Museum.
FIGURE 7.
TROCHILIUM PHORCUS. WESXW.
Trochilium alis anticis nigris intus fnlvis strigis dnabus longitndinahbns macnlaque subtriangnlari ante apicem
(vems tasis) hyalims ; posticis hyaliuis venis cihaque nigi-is, area anah fnlva, thorace et basi abdominis necnon
mcisuris abdommis fnlris, pedibus fulvo nigroqne variis ; posticis elongatis dense barbatis barba tibiarum extns
tiUva mtns cmn tarsis nigris.
Trochihum with the fore wings black, the hmer margin fulvous, with two longitudinal sti-eaks extending beyond
tne middle of the wing, and a somewhat triangular subapical spot (divided by four longitudinal veins) liyaline • hind
wmgs hyahne with the slender veins and the cilia black, anal area fulvous, legs varied with fulvous and black, the
liind ones elongated and densely bearded, the beard of the tibia; outwardly fulvous, inwardly as well as that
of the tarsi, black.
Expansion of the fore wings neai-ly inch.
Inhabits Central India. In the Collection of Colonel Hearsey.
^^ OBSERVATioN.-Closely allied to, but smaller than. Sphinx Bombyliformis of Cramer, pi. 400,
The plant represented in tlie plate is the Ceropeyeia elegans from the Nilgherry Hills.
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