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PLATE CCCCXXXVL 



SPHINX CRABRONIFORMIS. 



LUNAR HORNET SPHINX. 

 LEP1DOPTERA, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thickeft in the middle : tongue moftly exferted : feelers 

 fwo, reflected : wings deflexed, 



* Seclion Sejia. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



ANp 



SYNONYMS. 



Head black ; anterior margin of the thorax with a femilunar fpot: 

 abdomen yellow with two black bands. 



Sphinx Crabrpniformis. Linn. Tranf. Soc. v. 3. pi. 3. f. 

 6—10. 



A fpecies of the Sefia family, nearly allied to Sphinx apiformis, 

 from which it is principally diftinguimed by having the whole of the 

 anterior margin of the thorax yellow inftead of two fpots of that co- 

 lour j it is alfo rather fmaller, and far more uncommon. 



The 



