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PLATE CCXLI. 



SPHINX POPULI. 



Poplar Hawk Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae prifm-form and thickefl in the middle: tongue exferted: 

 wings when at reft defle&ed. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings reverfed, dentated, grey: a white central fpot on the anterior 

 pair : pofterior red at the bafe. 



Sphinx Populi: Alis dentatis reverfis grifeis : anticis pun&o 

 albo, pofticis bafi ferrugineis. Linn. Syfl. Nat. L 2. 

 797. 2. — Fn. Sv. 1084. 

 Roef. Inf. 3. tab. 30. 

 Schceff. Icon. tab. 100. 

 T)egeer. Inf. 1 . tab. 8. fig. 5. 

 Sepp. Inf. 3. 3. tab. 1. 

 Alhin. Inf. tab. 38. fig. C. 

 Wilkspap. 11. tab. B. C. 



This beautiful Infe£l is very common in this country, and not 

 left fo in every other part of Europe : it feeds on the poplar and 



Avillow 



