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PEA wh). CACY. 
SP HIN 2 ON ALA, 
RED-BELTED SPHINX. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Antenne thickeft in the middle. Wings when at reft deflexed, 
Fly flow, morning and evening only. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings tranfparent, veined, margined witha band, or ftreak of black. 
Abdomen bearded at the extremity, black ; with one fegment in the 
middle, red. 
This is clearly an undefcribed Infect. It bears the ftrongeft 
affinity to the Sphinx Tipuliformis of Linnzus; but as the zone or 
belt of red colour is an unerring diftinétion of our Infed, it cannot 
belong to that fpecies. Fabricius having feparated the Linnzan 
fphinges into three new genera, Sphinx, Sefia, and Zygaena, this 
Infe& mu({t be included under the genus Sefia of his fyftem ; two 
of the fpecies he has defcrited under that head, S. culiciformis and 
tenthrediniformis bear fome refemblance to our Sphinx Zonata, but are 
certainly diftinct fpecies. 
Sphinx Zonata is rare in England; the natural fize is fhewn at 
Fig. 1. of the annexed plate. The fine purple appearance of the 
_ body difappears in fpecimens that have been kept long in a cabinet. 
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