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TAR XXXIII. 



SPHINX CAROLINA. 



TOBACCO HAWK-MOTH, 



mcotiaxa TAnAVVM. /,/.v.v. 

 TOBACCO, 



3* alb mtegfU: omnibui mirgine portico albo.pcinftaiU, abdorainc ocelli* frx parium fulvU* 

 M n, Hdi /* -. v ' > ;y &"7^ I ■ Rl'*-M fit- 



FttDI upon Tobacco, Iriih Potatoes (Solatium ttit-entfiim?), Red Pepper (Cff/j/i- 

 aim?) &e. It went into the ground June lgsih, and mine out I *ith July: another 

 went in the »lh July, awl came out Ml August. The caterpillar i* a great nui- 

 fancc to the plantations of tobacco, the cultivators being obliged to pick them 

 careful I v olf the young plant*. Hie motfi is very commonly feen in an evening 

 fucking the James- town weed and Gourd bloiloms and continues breeding all the 

 HJiuincr* Tlicrc it rcaibn to luijtccl two fpecics of this ih ; at Icail a great viincH 

 of colours is obfrrvable in both fcxes. 



Wlial i* intended by the James-town wed U not ealy to determine. Tlii* motli U com- 

 mon in die Wert Indies as wclj as in Georgia and Carolina- I>. Browne fry* it i« called tl>c 

 Mofquito Hiwfc, from !bl shearing at thai lime of the evening in *hich thote flies abound, 

 and being vulgarly* ihougH certainly crroncoufty, fuppofed to prey on them, 



