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PLATE LIT. 



SPHINX TIPULIFORMIS. 



Currant Sphinx. 



Lepidoptera. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thickeft in the middle. Wings, when at refl-, defiexed. 

 Fly flow, morning and evening only. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings tranfparent, with black veins ; a bright brown fpot at the 

 extreme angle of each fuperior Wing. Abdomen, bearded; dark 

 purplifh black, with yellow bands. 



Syjl. Ent. 549. 9. — Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 804. 32. — 



Fn. Sv. 1096. 

 Clerk. Icon. Tab. 9. Fig. 31. 

 Fuejl. Maga%. Tab. i. Fig. 6. 

 Harr. Inf. angl. Tab. 3. Fig. 8. 



Sesia Tlpullformls. Fab. Spec. Inf. Tab. 2. 1 57. 



A very elegant, though common Species of the Sphinx Genus: 

 it is taken in the months June and July. After the Infed dies, the 

 colour of the thorax and abdomen, except the yellow bands, is en- 

 tirely black, or black with a very faint glofs of a reddilh blue : but 

 is an exceedingly brilliant dark purple, while the creature is alive ; and 

 the yellow belts on the alternate divifions of the body, glitter in the 

 funfliine with the effulgence of molten gold. The legs are yet more 

 beautiful, as the purple, though paler, is of a livelier luftre ; and every 

 joint is deeply fringed with the fame golden colour as that on the body. 



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