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195. 



SPHINX CAROLINA. 



The Tobacco Hawk Moth. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Sphingidae Lat. 

 Trjpe of the Genus Sphinx Ligustri Linn. 



Sphinx Linn., Fab., Lat., Haw., Och. — Spectrum Scop. — Eumorphse 

 Hub. 



AntenncE inserted close to the eyes, towards the back of the head 

 covered with scales above, more robust and thickened in the 

 middle in the males, each joint producing a row of cilia on the 

 underside (fig. 1, a), the apex attenuated uncinated and termi- 

 nated by a long seta, producing long slender scales (1, b) : 

 thickly clothed beneath with very short hair in Xht females (2). 

 Ijabrurn very short. 

 Mandibles remote ciliated internally. 



Maxilla convoluted, very long, horny and slender (3, a portion 

 only). 



Labial Palpi porrected obliquely, contiguous at their apex, ro- 

 bust, obtuse, densely clothed with hair (4) ; 3-jointed, basal 

 joint the longest, curved upward, 2nd large oval, 3rd minute 

 nearly obsolete (4 a). 

 Head subtrigonate. Eyes globose. Abdomen conical, not lifted at 

 the apex. Wings deflexed in repose, superior lanceolate, the lowei 

 ones having a hook or catch at the exterior margin to retain those 

 above. Cilia distinct. Claws hooked, very apparent. 

 Larvae with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal and 2 anal feet, the horn incurved. 

 PupaB sometimes with the proboscis detached, forming an arch. 



Cakolina Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 798. 7. — Smith and Abbot, v. 1. p. 65. 

 tab. 33. 



Brown freckled with white. Antennse pale and dull ochraceous. 

 Thorax with a black tuft of scales on each side behind. Abdo- 

 men with 5 or 6 large orange spots down each side surrounded 

 vi^ith dark brown, the spots decreasing in size to the apex. Su- 

 perior wings variegated with whitish and dark brown waved and 

 dentated strigae ; a white spot margined with black, in the mid- 

 dle of the wing towards the costa. Inferior wings dirty white and 

 black towards the base, a dirty white fascia joining a black in- 

 terrupted one next to the posterior margin. CAVia. spotted alter- 

 nately whitish and brown. 



Li the Cabinet of the Author. 



The great length of the proboscis will not always distinguish 

 the true Sphinx from Deilephila {pi. 3.) : the antennae however 

 are much longer, and never clavate as they generally are in the 



