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TAB. XXXV], 



SPHINX DRUPIFERARUM. 



PLUM-TREK, OR I1ACK-BERRY UAWK-MOTIL 



CBLTIS OCCfDKiVTJLIS. LINK 



SLlGAttBEJlfiY OIL ItACKBRKRW 



S. alt* imegris; itoftku alt** faJciU duabu* nigris abdominc nivco cingulif irriuifliimj nigrU. 



Taken feeding on the Sugar-berry or Hack-berry* hut it U moll frequent on the 

 Phm. It went into the ground June loth, forming a chrylalis which is like thai 

 of the Ettglith Privet Hawk-moth, and the t\y appeared on the ijlliof April. It 

 i* nol common. 



Mr. Attxrt Kit denominated this the Hum Sphinx, or 1V^ rt Sphinx hkeneft. Indeed it 

 fo nearly referable* llic **• Mgrflri, in all it* tiatc*, thai 11 might jilmnil pafc for * variety. 

 It* rnoft finking difference at full fight b the total want of a red colour about the abdomen 

 and under wing*; yet we have not ventured in tbcea&of tJ»e Americano*. &m*&uA to found 

 a fpedfic character on fueh a circumflancc alone. The befl, and probably albfiitnoent, dif- 

 tjutttoiu of S* Drwrif/t*ifv.v* appear to \k the narrowncft of the black circle* of the abdomen, 

 itjc dilated brown mark and three black line* along iu back, and tlicre being but two black 

 (Iripea, iiiftcad of three, on the hind wing*. Thti fpceic* mould be infected next to S. /j- 

 *>$/*. We do not find that anv author hai noticed it, except it might be Cramer** G*rJiur t 

 uK 2 17, B, which we think fcarccly poflittc. 



