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 TAB. XXXIV. 



SPHINX CHIONANTIIL 



FRINGE-TREE HAWK-MOTH- 



CHI ONA NT II US FI&GINICJ- Lt&fc 



*aiM*Mlii nit Oil) MANN HtAUl). 



S, a!i» intrgri* marginc poftito albo punetattt: primoriUi* flrigi* dtulxu tindubtii punc- 

 toque albis aKtominc occllif trium parium fulvi*. 



Ttir caterpillar feed* on the Fringe-tree, called old mans beard from iti dnflcti of 

 while blotibms. and alio on the Privet and Lilac, 1 procured fcvcral in Virginia upon 

 the la tl- mentioned ihrub* which WCBl Into the (-round July Jill, but every one of 

 them died in the chrydlti during winter. Alter 1 had been frvcral years in tjcor- 

 gia. I found lomo on the old man'* beard in June, which buried ihciniMves on the 

 •'•'d of that month, and came forth on tike wim* July ^inli. It is nol a common 

 moth. 



Of thoic infect* that go into the earth, and breed twice in a year it *» bed to 

 procure the fpring caterpillar*, which arc much moll likely to furvivc, the autumnal 

 one* commonly dj ing in chryfah* in the winter. 





Although every judiriou-i writer oucht to fulimit to the nifc Jaw, which by common coa- 

 Jent ha* obtained among fvuematic naiuraliil*, <h*t **> tolerably good trivial name, when ooec 

 printed, mould be changed by any following author, mere being no end to altering names for 

 ll*c better, and the inConvenienee* of fueh rhangr*. for the moll part, more than counter- 

 balancing their benefit*; ncvertheldt wc do venture at prcftnl to tranfgrcf* ihU law- We do 

 fa on the authority of m opinion, if not a decree, of Lianarus (Syft* Nat. 7o>. note) and 

 alfoon the mil higher authority of reafbn and tVnfc Linnaru* lay*, in the place juil referral 

 to t that trivial name* of infect taken from the plant* on w Inch tlwydepeml for fnbtiiUncr, 

 whenever fueli can be obtained, arc prcfcraWe to all other*, and ought foTicitoutly to be 

 fought for. in order Out tl»e depcndince of the animal and vegetable kingdom* on cadi other 

 may be daftly kept in fiW> With thU principle before u* furcly Cramer* ux*:prrlh\c tunic 

 of rn/jrj for this noWe inJcxft, mart girc way to one defensive of in food, which moreover 

 luptient lingular ly to mew llie analog}* of Nature t for the American In rub called Chiwunthtt 

 belong* firiraiy to the Cunc natural order of plant* a* the lalae and Privet, which, though 

 not rutiie* of it* own country, this caterpillar can, according co Mr, Abbot** obfrnaiion*, 

 ocGafiQtially eat; and a* we have a S/Aaur appropriate*! to the priiet in it* native foil of 

 Horopc {SfJm* Li^rtj t it U peculiarly faiisiailory to find on the other (We the Atlantic a 



