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Hate xxv. 



SPHINX APIFORMIS, 



Bee Hornet-Sphinx. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae fomewhat prifm-form, tapering at each end: tongue 

 moftly exferted : feelers two, reflefted : wings defle&ed* 



* Sesia Fair. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings tranfparent ; abdomen yellow, with blaek incifures, and 

 two blackifli belts above : thorax black, with two yellow fpots. 



Sphinx Apiformis: alis feneftratis, abdomine flavo : incifuris 

 atris thorace nigro : maculis duabus flavis. Fabr. 

 Sp. Inf. 2. p. 156. n. 15.—Mant. Inf. 2. p. 99. 

 ti. 12. Linn. TranJ. 3. tab. 1. fig. t. 2. 



The larva of Sphinx Apiformis is of the kind denominated by 

 Collectors from its manner of life " an internal feeder," fubfifting 

 on the inner fubftance of the poplar tree, the only one in which the 

 female is faid to depofit her eggs, and from whence the larva cannot 



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