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 PLATE CCLXXXIV. 



SPHINX LIGUSTRI. 

 Privet Sphinx, or Hawk Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Afitennse thickeft in the middle. Wings in general defiexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Wings entire. Pofterior pair red, with three black bars acrofs. 

 Abdomen red, with black belts. 



Sphinx Ligustri: alls integris pofticis rufis ; fafciis tribus nigris, 



abdomine rubro : cingulis nigris. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 



799. 8. Fn, Sv. 1087. 

 Sphinx Liguftri: Fab. Ent. SyJi.T. 3.^. I. 374. 55. 



Roef. Inf. 3. tab. 5. 



Degeer. Inf. I. tab. i.fg. 6. 



Schaff. Elen. tab. lib. jig. 2. 



Albin. Inf. tab. J.fg. 10. 



Efp. Inf. 2. tab. 6. 



Reaum. Inf. 2. tab. 20, fig. I — 4. 



The larva of this beautiful fpecies is found very frequently on the 

 Privet in the months of July and Auguft. It buries itfelf in the 

 earth preparatory to its becoming a pupa, and comes forth in the fly 

 ftate in June following. 



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