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PLATE CCCXIV. 



SPHINX PORCELLUS. 



Small Elephant Hawk Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thickeft in the middle. Wings defieded when at reft- 

 Fly How, morning and evening. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



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STNO NT M S. 



Wings entire, variegated with yellow and purple. Body red, 

 with white fpots on the under lide. 



Sphinx Porcellus: alls integris fiavo purpnreoque variis, abdo- 

 mine fubtus fanguineo a'bo piin61:ato. 'Li>7n. Syji. 

 Nat. 2. 8oi. 18. — Fn. Sv. 1090. 

 FiiL Ent. S\Ji. T. 2- P- T-- p- 373. 52, 

 Roef. Inf. I. phal. I. tab. 5. 

 Alh'in, Inf. tab. 9. 

 Efp. hif. 2. tab. 19. 

 Geoff. Inf. 2. 88. 12. 



A fpccimen of this Infect in the winged date was found in }rlyde 

 Park this funimer; it is one of the fcarceil of the Britilh Sphinges, 

 and was found by Plarrls many years fmce in " meadows^ — Ofterly 

 <* Wood, near Brentford, Miy 27th." 



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