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 PLATE CCIV, 



FIG. I. 



SPHINX LINEATA, 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae fomewhat prifni-form, thickeft in the middle : tongue 

 mofHy exferted : feelers two, reflecled : wings defle&ed. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Anterior wings greenifh with bands and flreaks of white : poftefior 

 black, with a red band on each. 



Sphinx Lineata: alis virefcentibus : fafcia ftriifquealbis, pofticis 

 nigris ; fafcia rubra. Fab, Ent. Syji. t. 8* p. 1. 368. 39, 

 Sphinx Daucus Cram Inf. 11. tab. 125. fig< D. 

 Sphinx Koechlini. Fuejl. Arch. 1. tab. 4. 



This fine Infe£l is a native of Europe and America. It has a 

 place in every cabinet of Englifh Infecls ; but on what authority it 

 will be difficult now to determine. It is highly probable, that the 

 teftimony of its difcovery in England is now forgotten, like that 

 of Papilio Podalirius, figured in another part of this work. 



The following defcription of its Caterpillar, which we have ken 

 preferved, as well as reprefented in foreign drawings, will enable the 

 entomologift to fearch after it with, at leafl, a diftant chance of fuccefs. 



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