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PLATE CXVI. 



SPHINX CHRYSORRHCEA. 



Golden-tail Sphinx. 



lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thickeft in the middle. Wings, when at reft, deflexcd. 

 Fly flow, morning and evening only. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings tranfparent with black veins. Head, thorax, body, mining 

 black with yellow rings or belts. Tail fine golden yellow. 



In the paintings of ErnJ}, a figure of a tranfparent-winged Sphinx, 

 fimilar to this, is given, under the fpecific name Oeftriformis : we are not 

 clearly convinced he intended it for this Infect, nor can we conceive 

 the name to be by any means applicable ; we therefore pafs over the 

 reference to that very fcarce work as doubtful, and reject his fpecific 

 name left he mould mean another Infecl:. 



Linnaeus has not defcribed this fpecies, nor have we found a defcrip- 

 tion of it in the writings of Fabricius. 



It is rare in England. Thomas Marsham, Efq. Sec. L. S« 

 favoured me with the fpecimen from which the annexed figure is 

 taken j it was met with in Kenfington Gardens in June, 



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