











LEPIDOPTERA. 
pt NX POLI MEN A. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings black, with three yellow fpots on the anterior pair, and two on the pofterior pair, Abdomen 
belted with two bright red bands. 
SpHinx Potymena: Lin. Sy/f?. Nat. 806. 40. 
Zygzna Polymena: nigra alis maculis luteis anticarum tribus pofticarum duobus. Abdomine cingulis 
duobus coccineis. Fab. Ent. Sy/t. 3. p. 1. 390. 34. 
We fufpe& this beautiful creature is fearce in China; at leaft it is very rarely found among the infects 
brought from that country. It is figured on the plate with the 
Rofa femperflorens—Ever-blowing China Rofe. 
A plant lately introduced from China, but thrives well in this climate, and bears a beautiful deep red 
flower, throughout moft part of the fummer feafon. 

Se eeeeeoem. Ft YL AS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings tranfparent. Abdomen green, with a purple belt round the middle. Apex bearded. 
SpHinx Hyxas: Linn. Mant. 1. 539. 
Sefia Hylas: alis feneftratis, abdomine barbato viridi: cingulo purpureo. Fab. Ent. Sy/?. 3. p. 1. 379. 3. 

The Sphinges with tranfparent wings may be feparated from the others with much propriety: Fabri- 
cius includes them in his new genus Sefia; but that genus is not formed exclufively of fuch infeéts, his 
effential characters being taken from the ftructure of the palpi, tongue, and antenne. The Sphinx fuci- 
formis found in England fomewhat refembles this Chinefe fpecies. 
