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There is another Sphinx^ which differs in fo few particulars, that 



it hath been miftaken for the prefent fubje£t; notwithftanding, it may- 

 be eafily diflinguifhed by a crefcent of yellow in the fore part of the 

 thorax, and thence entitled the Lunar Hornet Sphinx; a Drawing 

 of which Infect, with the larva, has been prefented to the Linntean 

 Society. This larva is nearly the fize of the Buff-tip Caterpillar, and 

 of an obfcure brown colour; probably the larva of the Sp. Api-formis 

 may much refemble it. 



It is arranged in many cabinets under the title of Sphinx Vefpi- 

 formis't but the Sp. Fefpiformis, in the Linnaan CoIIeclion, now in 

 the poffefllon of Dr. S?nith y fcarcely exceeds half the fize of this fub- 

 je£t, and is probably unique. The Lunar Hornet-Sphinx had no 

 place in that cabinet 



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