138 ORDER III. Sphinx. 



Scopoli has divided the Sphinges into two fee- 

 tions ; the firft containing fuch as undergo their 

 metamorphofis in the ground ; the fecond, thofe 

 which undergo their lad changement above 

 ground. This method can only be purfued by 

 thofe who obferve the metamorphofis of every 

 Sphinx they place in their collection, fince it is 

 impofTible to procure its natural hiftory along 

 with every infect, efpecially fuch as are fent from 

 far diftant countries: the divifions of genera 

 into fections fhould always be taken from fome 

 remarkable circumftance found conftantly upon 

 the infects, after their death. 



The name of Hawhmoth has been given, by 

 mod Englifh authors, to the Sphinx. 



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