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PLATE VI. 



SPHINX FILIPENDULyE. 



Six Spot Burnet Hawk-Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thickeft in the middle. Tongue ufually exferted. Palpi 

 two, reflected. Winers when at reft deflected. 



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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Anterior wings cyaneous-green, with fix red fpots : poflerlor 

 wings red with a blue border. 



Sphinx Filipendulae: alisprimoribuscyaneis: pundb'sfex rubris, 



pofterioribus rubris : margine cyaneo. Linn. Fn. 



Suec. 1097. — Gmel. Linn. S)jL Nat. 2290. 



Sp. 34. 

 Zyg/ENA Filipendulae : Fair. Ent.SyJl. 7". 3. p. I. 386. Sp. 1. 



Degeer. Inf. 7. p. 591. n. I. t. 4/4>.f. 1. 



We have in England two fpecies of the Sphinx tribe, (Zygeena 

 of Fabricius) that are known by the trivial appeliatian of Burners, 

 namely, the five-Jpat Burnet, and ihejix-fpot Burnet. Thefe are not 

 varieties, as they have been fometimes confidered ; they are evidently 

 diftincl fpecies, the former Zygsena Loti of Fabricius, the latter 

 Sphinx Filipendulae oi Linnaeus. There is a variety of Filipendulae 



