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PLATE CCXLI. 



SPHINX POPULI. 



Poplar Hawk Moth. 



lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antennx thickeft in the middle. Wings, when at reft deflexed. 

 Fly flow, morning and evening only. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Wings reverfed, dentated, grey : a white central fpot on the 

 anterior Wings. Pofterior Wings red at the bafe. 



Sphinx Populi : Alis dentatis reverfis grifeis : anticis pun6lo 

 albo, pofticis bafi ferrugineis. Linn. Syji, NaL 2, 

 797. -2. — Fn. Sv. 1084. 

 Roef. Inf. 3. tab. 30. 

 Schaff. Icon. tab. loo. 

 Degeer. Inf. I. tab. ^'fg-S- 

 Sepp. Inf. 3. 3. tab. I. 

 Alb'in. Inf. tab. 38. fig. C. 

 Wills pap. II. tab.^.Q. 



This beautiful Infedl is very common in this country, and not 

 lefs fo jip every other part of Europe : it feeds on the poplar and 



willow 



