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PLATE CXXII. 



SPHINX ELPENOR. 



Elephant Sphinx, or Hawk-Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thickeft in the middle : wings when at reft deflecled. 

 fly flow, Morning and Evening. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings angular, entire ; firft wings ftriped tranfverfely with greenifli 

 brown and red : fecond wings red, with a white pofterior margin, 

 and black at the bafe: body red and brown. 



Sphinx Elpenor. Alis integris.viridipurpureoque variis, pofticis 

 rubris bafi atris. 



Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. 148. 53. 

 Syji. Ent. 543. 25. 

 Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 801. 17. 

 Fn. Sv. 1049. 

 Sphinx fpirilinguis, alis viridi purpureoque fafciatis, fafciis linearibus 

 tranfverfis. Geoff. Inf. 2.86. 10. 



Roe/. Inf. 1 . phal. 2. tab. 33. fig. 73. 

 Petiv. Gazoph. tab. 40. fig. 11. 12. 17. 

 Frijch. In/- 13.4. tab. 2. 



The Caterpillars of this very elegant Sphinx are generally found 

 in marfhy places in June and July. They feed on the Convolvulus, 



Vine, 



