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 PLATE CCXXIX. 



THE 



LARVA AND PUPA 



OF 



Sphinx Convolvuli, 



OR 



Bind Weed Hawk Moth. 



After much refearch, we have not been fo fortunate as to meet 

 with the Larva of this rare Infeil ; nor can we learn that it has 

 been taken by any Colledor of Englifh Infecls for many years. In 

 the winged ftate one Specimen was faid to be taken in the fields 

 near Hoxton about two years ago. 



To perfedl the Hiftory of thisfpecies, we have copied the Figures 

 of the Caterpillar and Pupa, from N"^ 7, Der Nacht-Foegely &c. &c. 

 of Roefel's Infeden Bellujiigwtg, Vol. L 



Our readers will obferve that the Fly produced from the Cater- 

 pillars reprefented by Roefel is nearly one-third larger than the 

 fpecimens fuppofed to be bred in England ; the Caterpillars muft 

 therefore be larger in the fame proportion in the fpecimens found 

 in Germany. — The Caterpillars are of two colours, one green with 

 ftripes of yellow and fpots of black ; The other dull brown with 

 ochre coloured ftripes, and fides of the fame. The Caterpillar 

 figured by Abbot has a rofe-coloured band on the fide. 



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