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PLATE CLV. 



SPHINX STELLATARUM. 



'Humminc-Bird Hawk-Moth 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antennas thickeft in the middle. Wings, when at reft, deflexed. 

 Fly morning and evening only. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Abdomen thick, brown, and hairy; tufted at the extremity. Firfl 

 Wings greyifli brown, with waves of black acrofs. Second Wings 

 orange colour. 



SphinxStellatarum. Linn. Sift. Nat. 2. 803.27.— Fn.Sv.1094. 



Sejta Stellatarum : abdomine barbato, lateribus albo nigroque variis, 



alis pofticis ferrugineis. Fab. Syfi. Ent 548 3. 



Fab. Spec. Inf. 2 15.4. 6. 

 Papilio velociffima, alisalbis b.revibus, corpore craflb inter volitandum 



ftridorem edens. Raj. Inf. 133. 1. 



Roef. Inf. 1. papilionum Noclurnorum. Tab. 8. 



Bradl. Nat. tab. 26. fig. 1. A. 



Reaum. Inf. 1. tab. 12. fig. 5. 6. 



E 3 Men an. 



