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PLATE CCCXIX. 



SPHINX LOT I. 

 Five Spot Burnet Sphinx. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thickeff. in the middle. Wings deflefled when at reft. 

 Fly flow, morning and evening. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Anterior wings greenifh, with five red fpots : posterior; pair fan- 

 guineous, bordered with fine blue. 



ZyGjENvE Loti : alis anticis viridibus : punclis quinque rubris, 

 pofticis fanguineis: limbo cyaneo. Fab* Ent. Syji* 

 T. 3. p. 2. p. SS7. fp. 5. 



Sphinx Loti. Wien. Verz. 45. 3. 



Schaff. Icon. tab. 16. fig. 6, 7. 



Sphinx Loniceras. Efp. Inf. 2. tab. 24. fig. 1. 



This beautiful little fpecies may he eafily confounded with the 

 Sphinx Filipendula, figured in the fixth plate of this work ; its ge- 

 neral refemblance is ftriking, and it differs chiefly in the number of 

 red fpots that adorn the fuperior wings. Sphinx Filipendula has in- 



• i . r^Ws on each wing, and the latter as conftantly only five, 

 variably uy*w u ° 



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