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Reaum. InJ. I. tah. 14. 

 RoeJ. InJ. 3. tah. I.I. 

 HaJJ'elfjuiJi. Itin. 407. I04. 105. 

 Schceff. Icon. tah. ()(). fig. I. 2. 

 Efp. Inf. 2. tab. 7. 

 iSm/z. /«/. tab. 1 5. fig. 88. 

 ^/3/«. /«/". tab. 6. 

 fVi'lks.pap. 9. /fl^. I. ^. I. 



The Sphinx Atropos is a magnificent creature, and the largefl: of 

 the European Lepidopterous Infedts. The charafberiftic marks of 

 this fpecies are very fingular ; on the thorax in particular the figure 

 of a human Ikull is ftrongly depi£led. Thefe Infe6ls have been 

 deemed a prefage of fome approaching calamity, by the peafantry in 

 countries where they have appeared by chance ; and Linnaeus has 

 himfelf named it after one of the three Fates, of the Heathen My- 

 thology. 



This fpecies feems no where common. In this country it is rare. 

 We have an Englifli Specimen in the winged ftate, and once met 

 with its larva, of a full fize, but it died before it became a pupa. 



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