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UNICORN HAWK-MOTH. 



Sphinx Convolvuli. 

 PLATE VI. 



Sphinx Convolvuli, Linn. ; Donovan, vii. PI. 228 and 229.. 

 Unicorn or Bindweed Hawk-moth, Wilkes. Unicorn or 

 Convolvulus Hawk-moth, Harris Sphinx a comes de 

 Boeuf, Geoff., Godart. 



THE surface of the primary wings in this fine species 

 is greyish- ash colour, clouded with brown and 

 black, and marked with a few narrow lines or 

 streaks of deep black. The secondary wings are 

 also greyish, and traversed by three dark-coloured 

 bands, the anterior one bent towards the body, the 

 second oblique and somewhat double, the third 

 widened externally and nearly parallel with the 

 hinder margins. The fringe surrounding the wings 

 is white interrupted with brown. The thorax is 

 nearly of the same colour as the upper wings, 

 marked with two dark indistinct lines, somewhat in 

 the shape of a horse-shoe, and having a bluish spot 

 behind, with a red one adjoining. The abdomen 

 is ringed alternately with black and red, inclining 



