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PLATE CLV. 



SPHINX STELLATARUM, 



HuMMiNG-BiRD Hawk-Moth, 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thickefl: in the middle. Wings, when at reft, deflexed. 

 Fly morning and evening only. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS, 



Abdomen thick, brown, and hairy ; tufted at the extremity. Firft 

 Wings greyifli brown, with waves of black acrofs. Second Wings 

 orange colour. 



Sphinx Stellatarum. Linn. Syji. Nat. 1. 803. 27. — Fn. Sv. 1094. 

 Sefia Stellatarmn : abdomine barbato, lateribus albo nigroque variis, 

 alis pofticis ferrugineis. Fab. Syji, Ent. 548. 3. 

 Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. 154. 6. 

 Papilio velociffima, alis albis brevibus, corpore craflb inter volitandum 

 ftridorem edens. Raj. Inf. 133. i. 

 Roef. Inf. I. papilionum NoBurnorum. Tab. 8. 

 Bradl. Nat. tab. 26. fig. I. A. 

 Reaum. Inf. i. tab. I2. fig. 5. 6. 



E 3 Mer'iav^ 



