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PLATE. COCCXXXVE: 
SPHINX CRABRONIFORMIS. 
LUNAR HORNET SPHINX, 
LEPIDOPTERA, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne thickeft in the middle: tongue moftly exferted: feelers 
two, refleCted ; wings deflexed. 
* Seftion Sefia. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Head black: anterior margin of the thorax with a femilunar fpot: 
abdomen yellow with two black bands. 
Seuinx Cragpronirormis. Linn. Tranf. Soc. v. 3. pl. 3. f. 
6—10. 
A fpecies of the Sefia family, nearly allied to Sphinx apiformis, 
from which it is principally diftinguifhed by having the whole of the 
anterior margin of the thorax yellow inftead of two fpots of that co- 
lour ; it is alfo rather fmaller, and far more uncommon. 
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