StHINX. 4^ 
The fphinx atropos, when hurt, has the power of utter- 
ing a difmal and melancholy cry, like a tnoufe ; owing, 
as is fuppofed, to the violent rubbing of fome of its icaly 
members. There are forty-i'evefl different kinds ot thefe 
animals. 
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Vo l . III. 
