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PLATE CXC. CXCI. 



SPHINX CELERIO. 



Silver stripe Hawk Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae fomewhat prifm-form, thiekeft in the middle: tongue 

 (raoftly) exferted : feelers two reflected : wings deflected. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS, 



Wings entire greyifh with filvery white ftripe : lower brownifh 

 with about fix red fpots in the difk. 



Sphinx Celerio :. alis integris grifeis : flriis albis, poflicis fufcus : 

 maculis fex rubris. Linn. Syfi. Fat. 2. 800. 12. 

 Fab. Ent. Syfi. T. p. 1. 370. 43. 

 Roef. Inf. S. tab.S. 

 Frifch. Inf. 13. tab. 1. fig. 2. 

 Cram. Inf. 3. tab. .?5. B. 



The Sphinx Celerio (lands pre-eminent in the lift of Britifh Infefts, 

 whether we confider its rarity or uncommon beauty. Indeed, among 

 the Infefts of this tribe that are brought from remote countries, 

 even from Afia which boafts the molt fplendid fpecies, the varieties 

 of Sphinx Celerio are often the mod beautiful : it muft however be 



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