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TA II. XXXIX. 



SPHINX L1NEATA. 



PURSLANE, OR PINK-UNDERWJNG JIAWK-MOTIL 



PORTO LAC A OLRRACEA* LINK. 



GARDES PVRSLAXL 



Sp s!i* initgrb wlUaccii vitU tiarcfccmc flrufquc albU. potfieii nigri* fafeta rubra. 





The food of thi* fpecic* confilfe of Forllnnt, Buck weed, and the leave* of tho 

 Wtttcr Melon. It went uwkt ground May I llli f nunc forth the 3d of June, and 

 another* which burled ittHf Au^iifl -^\. came out the mih of September. The 

 mm), often ilie* by day. ami leveral were taken in a garden in Virginia fueking 

 Lilac bloriunuon the I ?th of Anrit. Tin* caterpillar when full j^rown h fomewlut 

 larger tlian it i* licre delineated* 



Thi* ipeeie* of £/*wu-, lliou^h muioikrd by Luiiwu, or milker confounded by him * itli 

 hi* A Cttm, 11 a native of fcurojic, a* »ell a* America. It ought undouUcdJy to be placed 

 between C*frm and I'itu* 



