PeoA 1 E CAVE 
PromrinNn xX CHRYSORR HGS 
GoLpDEN-TAIL SPHINX. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne thickeft in the middle. Wings, when at reft, deflexed. 
Fly flow, morning and evening only, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings tranfparent with black veins. Head, thorax, body, fhining 
black with yellow rings or belts. Trail fine golden yellow. 
In the paintings of Ern/?, a figure of a tranfparent-winged Sphinx, 
fimilar to this, is given, under the fpecific name Oeftriformis: we are not 
clearly convinced he intended it for this Infe&t, nor can we conceive 
| the name to be by any means applicable; we therefore pafs over the 
reference to that very fcarce work as doubtful, and reject his fpecific 
name left he fhould mean another Infect. 
_ Linnzus has not defcribed this fpecies, nor have we found a defcrip- 
| tion of it in the writings of Fabricius. 
It is rare in England. THomas Marsuam, Efq. Sec. L. S. 
favoured me with the fpecimen from which the annexed figure is 
| taken; it was met with in Kenfington Gardens in June, 
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