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With fpecimens of both the infects figured by Edwards and Cramer before us, we cannot hefitate to 
confider them Sphinges of the Ad/cite® family, and of the Zygena of Fabricius. In removing our infect 
to the fphinx genus, we have retained the fpecific name Thal, as more likely to denote the fpecies than 
any newly adopted name. The infect figured by Cramer does not precifely agree with Edwards's figure. 
In the firft, the difk of the pofterior wings are yellowifh, with a deep border of black: in the other, the 
yellow occupies only a fpace near the bafe, and forms a femi-lunar mark near the anterior margin of thofe 
wings. We fufpeéct, with Cramer, that they are but the two fexes of one fpecies. Cramer fays both his 
{pecimens came from China, from whence our infeéts were alfo received. 


Sratwes RUPFIPCOLLIS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings entire; black purple, a femicircular yellowifh band communicating acrofs all the wings; and two 
{pots of the fame colour near the apex. Collar reddith. 
SPHINX RUFICOLLIs: alis integerrimis nigro-purpurefcentibus fafcia communi maculifque duabus flavis, 
thorace antice brunneo. 

This and the following {pecies are undoubted nondefcripts: both fpecimens are in the collection of 
Mr. Francillon, who received them from China. 

SPHINXK BIFASCIATA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings fulvous or orange, a black bar acrofs the middle of the anterior wings: tips black. 
SPHINX BIFASCIATA: alis fulvis fafcia apiceque nigris. 
eS SS SS SS ENE 
Sphinx Hylas, Thallo, ruficollis, and the elegant little fpecies Sphinx bifafciata, are reprefented on the 
plate with the 
Thuja Orientalis.—China Abor-vite Tree, 
An ornamental evergreen, much efteemed by the Chinefe, and very frequently reprefented in their land- 
feapes. Sir G. Staunton remarks in the account of the journey from Pekin to Canton, that great quanti- 
ties of this plant grew to a prodigious height in the valley in which ftands the city of Yen-choo-foo. 
¢ The Adfcite differ from the other fphinges, in their general appearance, but have all the charaéters affigned to that genus. 

