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Sphinx Carolin \. Fabr. Fnt. Syjl. T. 3. p. 1 f- M3.n. 25. 

 Sphinx 5-maculatus, the yellow fpotted Unicorn. Haw. Up. 

 Brit. 59. Sp. 3. 



We are happy to embrace the prefent opportunity of prcfenting- 

 our readers with a figure of this magnificent fpecies of Hawk-Moth, 

 as a new Britiih Infect, upon the belt and moft unqueftionable au- 

 thority. We have a fpecimen of it among the Britiih Sphinges, in 

 the cabinet of the late Mr. Drury, now in our poffeffion, with a 

 manufcript note affixed, informing us that this identical infeft was 

 taken in the neighbourhood of London, and brought to him alive 

 fome few years ago # . The figure accompanying this defcription will 

 afford a better idea of the beauty of this valuable acquifition, than 

 any words we can employ ; it is reprefented precifely in its natural 

 fize, and as nearly refembling it in markings, and colours, as the fide- 

 lity of the pencil will admit. 



When we fay the figure of this infect is fubmitted for the firft 

 time as a Britiih fpecies, we wilh to be underllood as fpeaking of 

 the figure only, for the very fpecimen under coniideration at this time 

 has been already cbftribed as a Britiih infect, and the fpecies itfelf 

 is perfectly well known as an exotic, or extra-european kind, to moft 

 entomologies. It is this fpecimen that Mr. Haworth mentions in 

 his recent essay on the Lepidoptera of Great Britain, and upon the 

 ible authority of which he infested it in that work as a new Britiih 



* The label alluded to, refers to two fpecimens, namely, our prefent infect, and 

 one of Sphinx Convolvuli, both which are mentioned in the following words, in- 

 fcribed in the hand-writing of Mr. Drury. " One of the above fpecies is certainly 

 different from the Sph. Convolvulus. The difference is manifeilly difcernable. The? 



were alive when firft brought to me, one about the year 1776, the other 1783." It is 



obvioufly impofhble to collect from the tenor of this memorandum, which of the two 

 infects he received firft, but this we may reft perfuaded of, that he obtained the living 

 fpecimen of our new Britiih fpecies either in the year 1776, or 1788. 



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