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Meeting up above tlieir bodies. 



Next to these, the large Sphingina 

 Have antennae pointed outwards, 

 Kather thickest in the middle, 

 Notched along the side, or sawlike ; 

 And their tube for honeysucking 

 Is both large and very lengthened ; 

 The fore wings are long and pointed, 

 And the hind wings shorter, smaller, 

 Often much more gaily coloured, 

 Always hidden by the fore wings. 

 When the noble Sphinx is resting 

 On the tree trunks in the day time, 

 All the four wings then meet, rooflike. 

 They have large and pointed bodies, 

 Often banded with bright colours. 

 Sphinges fly in early evening, 

 Sipping sweets from honeysucldes 

 And all honeyyielding flowers, 

 While they hang, in air suspended. 

 On their quivering wings suspended. 



Thirdly, the soft Bombycina, 

 With antennae very various, 

 Mostly short and fringed, or comblike, 

 With no tube for honeysucking ; 

 Foi'e wings very broad and rounded ; 

 Hind wings also broad and ample, 

 Folding lengthwise underneath them. 



