So PLATE CCIV. 



The general colour of the Caterpillar is green, varied with yellow : 

 and fome ftreaks and fpots of red down the back : it has alfo a large 

 black fpot on each fide every fegment ; the head is black; and it has 

 a fpine, or tail. This is the appearance of it in one fkin ; it cafts 

 its fkin feveral times, and will therefore vary in fome degree from 

 this account.— The pupa is yellowifh brown, fpeckled with black. 

 It feeds on Ladies Bed-Jlraw, Madder, Geofe-grafs, &c. 



FIG. IX. 



SPHINX STATICES. 



Forrester. 



Lepidoptera. 



Sphinx. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Anterior wings green blue : pofterior brown. 



Sphinx Statices : Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 808. 470. — Fn. Sv. 109*. 

 ZyGjENA Statices : viridi coerulea alis poflicis fufcus. Fab. Ent. 



Syji. T. 3. p. 1. 406. 68. 



Geoff. Inf. 2.129. 40. 



Robert. Icon, tab. 30. fig. 1. 

 Petiv. Muf. 35. 229. 

 Schtef. Icon. tab. 1. fig. 9. 

 Efp. Inf. 2. tab. 18. fig. %. 



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Found in Che winged ftate in May. — Frequents meadows. The 

 larva is defcribed of a very deep black, with a line of white down 

 the back, and fome lunar fpots of the fame colour in different parts. 

 It feeds on docks. 



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