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PLATE CCCX1V. 



SPHINX PORCELLUS. 



Small Elephant Hawk Moth. 



Lefidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thickeft in the middle. Wings defledkd when at reft- 

 Fly How, morning and evening. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



s r n o n r m s. 



Wings entire, variegated with yellow and purple. Body red, 

 with white fpots on the under iide. 



Sphinx Porcellus: alis integris flavo purpureoque variis, abdo- 



inine fubtus fanguineo albo punclato. Linn. Syfl. 



Nat. 2. 801. 1 8. — Fn. Sv. 1090. 



Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 3. p. I. p. 373. 52. 



Roe/. In/ 1. phal. I. tab. 5. 



Albin, If// tab. 9. 



Efp. Inf. 2. tab. 19. 



Geoff. Inf. 2. 88. 12. 



A fpecimen of this Infecl in the winged ftate was found in Hyde 

 Park this fummer ; it is one of the fcarceft of the Britifh Sphinges, 

 and was found by Harris many years fmce in " meadows— Qfterly 

 « Wood, near Brentford, May 27th.' 1 



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