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Upper Side. Antennae reddish. Thorax and abdomen reddish cinnamon ; having a dark Une run- 

 ning from the head along the back to the tail. Anterior wings reddish cinnamon; having a dark apical 

 margin, and a paler streak running circularly from the tips to the lower corners ; where, at each of those 

 places, is a yellowish indistinct mark. Posterior wings reddish cinnamon, paler at the base ; near the 

 abdominal corners is a round black spot, with an indistinct centre. 



Under Side. Breast, thighs, and abdomen cinnamon. Legs black. Wings nearly coloured as on 

 the upper side ; the pale streaks and yellow marks, at the tips and lower corners, being more distinct and 

 plain on this side ; the black spots on the posterior wings being wanting. Drury considered it as a distinct 

 species from that in the foregoing plate. 



SPHINX HYL/EUS. 



Plate XXVI. fig-. 3. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Crepuscularia. Family; SphingidsB. 



Genus. Sphinx, vl!<o<. 



Sphinx Hyl.bus. Alis anticis fuscis margine interno apiceque variegatis ; posticis nigris macula basali 



fasciaque medii transversa cinereis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.) 

 Syn. Sphinx Hylajus, Xlrur^, ^/)/). ro?. 2. Cramer Ins. pi. \01. fig. Ci Fabr. Ent. Sijst. \\\. 1. :573. A"o. 53. 



Gmel. Linn. S. N. 2383. 81 . 

 Sphinx Prini, Abbott §• Smith Ins. Georg. tab. 35. 



Habitat: New York. 



Upper Side. Antennas white within, brown without. Head, thorax, and abdomen rusty grey brown ; 

 the latter having on the sides of each ring a narrow white streak, and two small white spots on the upper 

 part. Anterior wings rusty grey brown ; having several dappled white marks dispersed on different parts, 

 particularly at the shoulders and external edges ; a narrow black line rises near the lower corners, run- 

 ning from thence to the anterior edges, and enchng near the tips ; cilia brown, spotted with white. 

 Posterior wings black ; cilia white, having some whitish marks thereon, particularly near the abdominal 

 corners. 



Under Side. Breast and abdomen white. Legs brown. Wings brown ; having two faint indented 

 lines crossing them, near the tips and lower corners. Posterior wings brown, with some faint undulated 

 dark lines crossing them from the anterior edges to the abdominal corners. 



The caterpillar of this insect, observed by Abbot, feeds upon the evergreen winter- 

 berry, or gaU-berry (Prinos glaber, Linn.), whence Sir J. E. Smith altered the name of 

 the species from Hylseus to Prini. It is of a pale green colour, with six lateral oblique 

 pink lines, the last of which extends to the base of the nearly straight tail, which is of the 

 same colour ; the chrysalis is chesnut, without any porrected tongue-case. One of these 

 caterpillars, observed by Abbot, went into the ground on the lyth of May, and appeared 

 as a moth on the 19th of June ; whilst another buried itself on the 25th of August, and 

 remained in the earth until the 2Gth of April. The caterpillar is subject to the attacks 

 of a small Ichneumon, the larvae of which, when full grown, eat their way out of its body 

 and spin themselves up on the outside. The moth is occasionally seen sucking the blossoms 

 of gourds in the twilight, but is not common. 



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