TAB. XLII. 

 SPHINX CONIFERARVM. 



PINE OR CYPRESS HAWK-MOTH. 



PIN US PJLUSTRIS. LIXS. 



LOXG-LEAVRI1 OK IWAMP PIXE-TREl 



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S. all* intrgrii cairn: primoribut lincoli* duabu* poralklrt tcrtiAquc duarkalu nijrrit firici 



dcmiailUA tranlvaia albidl* 



TAK1S feeling on ! he Long -leaved Pine in Augutl, on the 2;tli of which monih 

 it went into (Ik ground. Another buried iticlf to late tl the loih of November, 

 The moth wa* produced April Hlh. It is not very common, bm inav be found 

 occalioi ially throughout the 1u miner filling on lite trunks of pine*. It feeds alto 

 on the t'vpreiV, and in found in Virginia. 



Some attention i» rccpuute to diuinguilh thi* moth from tlic European S* Pitxijtri, yet they 

 are undoubtedly different ipccic*, bearing that great allinily to each other which many Eu- 

 ropean plant* do to American one*. The whitilh ligug llripc acro& tlic fore wing*, not to 

 be fcen in $. Pmr/ti, and one of the (mall black lirokc* t landing at a right angle with the 

 two others itiftead of bring parallel to than, foe Bnujs Iaf. l\ I. A a*- /- Q, are the chi- 

 raelrriilic marl* of our 5- fm/fm/iw, 1101 to mention it* caterpillar being clKcqucrcd and 

 dirtcfently coloured from that ol tltc 6\ fmtfri. 



