2 PLATE CCCLXI. 



Sphinx Carolina. Fabr. Fnt. Syjl. T. 3. p. 1 p. 363. n. 25. 

 Sphinx 5-maculatup, the yellow fpotted Unicorn. Haw. Lep. 

 Brit. 59- Sp. 3. 



We are happy to embrace the prefent opportunity of preferring 

 our readers with a figure of this magnificent fpecies of Hawk-Moth, 

 as a new Britiih Infect, upon the beft and moft unquestionable au- 

 thority. We have a fpecimen of it among the Britiih Sphinges, in 

 the cabinet of the late Mr. Drury, now in our poffeffion, with a 

 manufcript note aflixed, informing us that this identical infe6l was 

 taken in the neighbourhood of London, and brought to him alive 

 fome few years ago *. The figure accompanying this description will 

 afford a better idea of the beauty of this valuable acquifition, than 

 any words we can employ ; it is represented precifely in its natural 

 fize, and as nearly refembling it in markings, and colours, as the fide- 

 lity of the pencil will admit- 

 When we fay the figure of this infect is Submitted for the firSt 

 time as a Britiih fpecies, we wifli to be understood as fpeaking of 

 the figure only, for the very fpecimen under confederation at this time 

 has been already defcribed as a Britifh inSe6f, and the Species itSelf 

 is perfe&ly well known as an exotic, or extra-european kind, to moft 

 entomologists. It is this Specimen that Mr. Haworth mentions in 

 his recent essay on the Lepidoptera oS Great Britain, and upon the 

 Sole authority oS which he inSerted it in that work as a new Britiih 



* The label alluded to, refers to two fpecimens, namely, our prefent infect, and 

 one of Sphinx Convolvuli, both which are mentioned in the following words, in- 

 icribed in the hand-writing of Mr. Drury. " One of the above fpecies is certainly 

 different from the Sph. Convolvulus. The difference is manifeftly difcernable. They 

 were alive when firlt brought to me, one about the year 1776, the other 1788."— It is 

 obvioully impoffible to collecl from the tenor of this memorandum, which of the two 

 ihfefts he received firlt, but this we may reft pervaded of, that he obtained the living 

 fpecimen of our new Britifh fpecies either in the year 1776, or 1788. 



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