THE 
WILD-VINE SPHINX. 
Generic Character. 
AntenncB subprismatic, thickest in the middle; 
and attenuated at each extremity. 
Wings deflected. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Olivaceous SPHINX, with entire wings; the 
lower ones blueish wdth black bars and 
blood-red interior margin. 
MERIA,N. Ins. Sarin, t. 34. 
The liighly elegant insect here represented is a 
native of South-America, and seems to have been 
first described and figured by the celebrated Madam 
Merian, in her splendid work on the insects of 
Surinam. Its caterpillar feeds jirincipally on the 
different species of Vine, According to Madam 
Merian it changes to a chrysalis in the month of 
August, from which in that of September emerges 
the Sphinx. 
