And while his new-born beauties he difplays, 
* With confcious joy his alter’d form furveys. 
Mark, while he moves amid the funny beam, 
O’er his foft wings the varying lullre gleam. 
Launch’d into air, on purple plumes he foars. 
Gay Nature’s face with wanton glance explores ; 
Proud of his various beauties wings his way. 
And fpoils the faired: flow’rs, himfelf more fair 
than they. 
And deems weak Man the future promife vain, 
When Worms can die, and glorious rife again ? 
The Sphinx Occllata, figured on the annexed plate, 
as an example of the genus, is perhaps the moll beau¬ 
tiful infeift which this country produces. The cater¬ 
pillar is generally found on willows. It arrives at its 
full fize towards the beginning of Auguft, when it bu¬ 
ries itfelf, and changes to a chryfalis, from which, a- 
bout the fird: week in the following June, proceeds the 
moth. 
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