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THE FORESTER SPHINX. 

 Sphinx Statices. 



PLATE LXVIII. 



Sphinx Statices, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 808.— .Donovan's 

 Brit. Ins. vi. pi. 204, fig. 2 — Turton's Linne, iii. p. 191. 



This very beautiful Sphinx has the superior 

 wings, thorax, and abdomen of a vivid gi-een in some 

 species, while in others it is of a pale yellowish 

 green ; the inferior wings are purple in some, and 

 very pale rose colour in others ; they are brown 

 underneath ; the antennae are pectinated, and club- 

 shaped. 



The larva is of a deep black, with a line of white 

 down the back, and some lunar-shaped spots of the 

 same colour in different parts. It feeds on docks. 

 The moth is transfonned in May, and frequents 

 meadows. The breadth of the insect is an inch and 

 an eighth. Oui- figure is nearly double the size of 

 nature. The chi-ysalis is dusky. 



This sphinx is not common; it frequents Kent, 

 Surrey, Hertfordshire, Essex, Middlesex, Yorkshire, 

 Cambridgeshire, and Northumberland. 



