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TAB. XXXI. 



SPHINX G AU RJE. 



OLIVE-SHADED HAWK-MOTU, 



GAUKA BIBtfttfS. LfNX 



b- alia dcntatis: nrimoribu* olivacci* ftnpu duabui atbidU punfto difci drltOHlcO; poAici* 

 fcrrugincii firigA pallida cxtcrius nigrit nurginc albo. 



Taktn feeding on the Gaum in May, on the 201h of which month it cncloicd it- 

 frlf in a web on the furtaee of the ground, and the lly came out June 7th. It has 

 not been found in Virginia* and U very rare in Georgia, where It Hies verv fwiftlv 

 hy day, extruding honey from flowers. 



Tbii Spkua approaches uV MtJt* of Fabridnc, Ertitm* rmt*J> l\ 4. s&J, with which 

 wt- ha> e compared it. In that however the wing* are Id* dentated, tlieir colour more green 

 than olne, and ilhc^- arc dctitiutc of the pale tranfrcrfe itripcs lb evident in tlut here rrpnv 

 fentcd. $. Gh&thtr*, Fabr. /- 53$, come* a great deal nearer to our*, but the colouring of 

 thai too (ran* different, not to mention a longitudinal pate line on it* upper wings while 

 the under one* are yellow, and want llic light iranlmfe ilripc of ours. In the dirt \\>:<k on 

 ll>c Uilk of the upper they nearly agree, Wc Jhould indeed lltll hare hdiuted upon the fub- 

 Wt, Iiariog no knowledge of & (Knttkrrj but frocn figure*, had not the tirwt of tiii* iitfecl 

 deckled tlic point. It L» represented by Efprr, fV< a. *j&. 00, without * horn, and other- 

 wife my ditTcrem from tlut in Mr, Abbot** drawing. Hence it appears they arc two nearly 

 allied fpocie*, feeding on two plants of the iaine natural order. 



