PLA TE Cxc,. CXCI. 
S Po lN xX’; €¢ E LE Rip.©: 
SILVER-STRIPE Hawk Moru. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne thickeft in the middle. Wings, in general deflexed - 
when at reft. Fly flow. Morning and evening only. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
_ Firft wings brown, with a broad oblique band of filver white ex- 
tending from the pofterior margin to the tip of the wing. Lower 
wings black, with fix large red fpots on each. 
Sphinx Celerio: alis integris grifeis: ftriis albis, pofticis fufcus: 
maculis fex rubris. Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 800. 12. | 
Fab. Ent. Syft. T. p. 1. 3.70. 43. 
Reef. Inf. 3. tab. 8. 
Frifch. Inf. 13. tab. 1. fig. 2. 
Cram. Inf. 3. tab. 25. B. 
The Sphinx Celerio ftands pre-eminent in the lift of the Infects 
of this country, whether we confider its rarity, or uncommon 
beauty. Indeed, amongft the Infects of this tribe that are brought 
from remote countries, even from Afia, which boafts the moft 
fplendid fpecies, the varieties of Sphinx Celerio are often the moft 
beautiful; it muft however be owned, that, in countries where the 
D climate, 
