THE 
PRIVET SPHINX. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna fubprifmatic, attenuated at each end. 
4 Tongue (generally) exferted. 
Feelers two. 
Wings deflected. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Brown SPHINX, with the lower wings and body 
rofe-colored, ftriped with black bands. 
The PRIVET Hawk-Moth. 
Alb. ins. p. 7. 
Roes. 3. 
Merian Europ. 124. 
The caterpillar of this beautiful infedt feeds chiefly 
on the leaves of the Privet. In the beginning of 
Auguft it retires under ground to undergo its change 
into a chryfalis, from which in June or July in the 
following year emerges the infedt in its complete or 
ultimate form. 
