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The perfect insect is not rare in England, but it 

 becomes scarce further to the north. Some places 

 have afforded it in great abundance such as Ep 

 ping Forest, several places in Devonshire, and the 

 vicinity of York and it seems to be found occa- 

 sionally in all the English counties. It is very rare 

 in Scotland. 



POPLAR HAWKMOTH. 



Smerinihus Popidi. 

 rLAlK 111. Fig. 2. 



Sphinx Populi, Linn. ; Donovan, viii. PI. 241. Poplar Hawk- 

 moth, Wilkes, PI. 25 ; Harris' 1 Aurel. PI. 63. 



LARGER than the preceding, and differing consider- 

 ably from the other species in having the external 

 border of all the wings pretty regularly dentated. 

 The colour is generally greyish-brown, occasionally 

 inclining to obscure rusty-red, and sometimes grey- 

 ish-white, with bands and transverse rays of a 

 deeper hue than the ground colour ; each of the 

 upper wings having a white crescent near the 

 middle. At the base of the hinder wings there is 

 a ferruginous patch, and near the middle a pale 

 whitish lunule, always indistinct and sometimes not 

 observable. The body is nearly of the same colour 



