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THE PINE SPHINX. 



Sphinx Pinastri. 



PLATE LXVH. 



Sphinx Pinastri, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 802. TurtotCs 

 J.innc, iii. p. 172. Donovan's Brit. Ins. is. pi. 296. 



THE superior wings of the Sphinx Pinastri are of 

 a pale greenish purple, with three black spots towards 

 their centre ; the under wings are burnt umber- 

 brown ; all of them have a border of black and white 

 spots ; the head, thorax, and abdomen, are the same 

 colour as the upper wings, banded with brownish 

 black. 



The caterpillar has an orange yellow head ; the 

 body is covered with alternate longitudinal stripes of 

 deep green and yellow ; along the centre of the back 

 it is white, in the middle of which extends, from the 

 head to the tail, a catenated line of rich reddish brown ; 

 and the tail is furnished with a spike. 



The pupa is of a deep reddish brown. We have 

 placed it as a British insect, from a traditionary report 

 that it has been found in Scotland. It is a very plentiful 

 species in Germany, among the extensive pine forests 

 which intersect that country. 



