EYED HAWK-MOTH. 
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Tlie perfect insect is not rare in Engl;md, but it 
becomes scarce further to the north. Some places 
hare afforded it in great abundance — such as Ep- 
ping Forest, several places in Devonshire, and the 
vicinity of York — and it seems to be found occa- 
sionally in all the English counties. It is very rare 
in Scotland. 
POPLAR HAWKMOTH. 
Smerinilms Populi, 
PLATE III. Fig. 2. 
Sphinx Populi, Zinn. ; Donovan, viii. PI. 241 Poplar Hawk- 
moth, Wilkes, PI. 25 ; Harris' Aurel. PI. 33. 
Laroer than the preceding, and differing consider- 
ably from the other species in having the external 
border of all the wings pretty regularly dentated. 
The colour is generally grejosh-brown, occasionally 
inclining to obscure rusty-red, and sometimes grey- 
ish-white, with bands and transverse rays of a 
deeper hue than the ground coloiu'; each of the 
upper tvings having a white crescent near the 
middle. At the base of the hinder tvings there is 
a ferruginous patch, and near the middle a pale 
whitish lunule, always indistinct and sometimes not 
observable. The body is nearly of the same colour 
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