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just named found the caterpillars spin themselves 

 up on the 21st July, and come out in the perfect 

 state on the 1 5th August ; others of them spun on 

 the 11th September, and the fly came out on the 

 9th May. This hawkmoth is not very common in 

 Georgia, but may sometimes be observed sucking 

 the gourd blossoms in autumn. 



SPHINX CHIONANTHI. 



PLATE V. Fig. 2. 



Abbot and Smith, Lepid. Geor., i. pi. 34. — Sphinx rustica, Fabr. 

 Cramer, Pap. Exot., t. 301, f. A. 



This conspicuous and curiously marked insect is 

 another fine example of the sphinges of the New 

 World. The ground colour is a rich brown, the 

 surface variously marked and mottled with white. 

 The base of the fore wings is of the latter colour ; 

 there is then a transverse bar of the same before the 

 middle, from which the inner margin of the wing is 

 broadly white, that colour blending at the posterior 

 extremity with another broad waved stripe from 

 the anterior border a little beyond the middle ; the 

 brown semicircular space in the middle of the wing 



