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Bl. A tee CXXIT 
PhHIN SE LPENOR. 
ELEPHANT SPHINX, or Hawk-Morn. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz thickeft in the middle. Wings, when at reft, deflexed. 
Fly flow, Morning and Evening. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
AND 
SMNONYM Ss. , 
Wings angular, entire ; firft wings ftriped tranfverfely with greenifh 
brown, and red. Second Wings red, witha white pofterior margin; 
black at the bafe. Body red and brown. 
SPHINX ELpENor. Allis integris, viridi puspureoque variis, pofticis 
rubris bafi atris. 
Fab, Spec. Inf. 2. 148. 43. 
Syft. Ent. 543. 25- 
Linn, Syft, Nat. 2. 801. 17. 
Fn, Sv. 1049. 
Sphinx fpirilinguis, alis viridi purpureoque fafciatis, fafciis linearibus 
tranfverfis. Geof. Inf. 2. 86. 10. 
. Roef. Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 33. fig. 73. 
Petiv. Gaxoph. tab. 40. fig. U1. 12. 17. 
Frifch, Inf. 13. 4. tab. 2. 
The Caterpillars of this very elegant Sphinx are generally found 
in marfhy places in Fune and Fuly. They feed on the Convolvulus, 
Ne 6 Vine, 
