
NATURAL HISTORY, ~ 179 
GENUS I, 
SPINX., 
~ 
fs. 2 CHARACTER, 
‘Tue horns are thickeft in the middle ; refembling 
in form, a prifm. The wings are bent inwards. They 
_ are flow and heavy in their flights, which they take 
»either late in the evening, or early in the morning. ~ 
GENUS Ill. 
PHALENA, 
CHARACTER: 
"Fae horns are briftly, decreafing in fize from the 
bafe to the point ; which chiefly diftinguifhes it from 
the butterfly. The wings, when at reft, generally . 
turn down. They fly in the night, 
For a more particular defcription of butterflies and 
moths, fee our account, from page 339 to 146, - 
al? 
NZ 
ANS 
