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PLATE XCI.-XCII.

SPHINX EUPHORBIÆ.

Spotted Elephant Sphinx.

Lepidoptera.

GENERIC CHARACTER,.

^Antennae thickest in the middle. Wings, when at rest, deflexed,y flow, morning and evening only.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Superior wings light brown, with spots, and broad stripes of darkVe * Inferior wings red, marked with black and olive.

sphinx Euphorbia al is integris fascis, vitta anticis pallida, posticisru '°ra. Syji, Ent. 541. 17.

Linn, Syji. Nat. 2. 802. 19.— Fn. Sv. 1086.—Muf Lud. Fir. 356.

Sphinx Euphorbia alts integris griseis, fasciis duabus virescentibusPosticis rusts bast strigaque nigris, antennis niueis. Fab. Spec »^ n S‘ 2. 146. 32.

Sphinx spirilingius, alis viridi fulvo purpureoque varie fasciatis etftiaculatis, subtus purpureis. Geoff. Inf. 2. 87. 11.

Drury Inf. 1. Tab. 29. Fig. 3.

Roes. Inf. 1. Phal. i. Tab. 3.

Reaum. Inf. 1. Tab. 13. Fig. 1. 4. 5. 6.

Degeer. Inf. 1. Tab. 8. Fig. 6. H.

Schaff. Icon. Tab. 99. Fig. 3. 4.g RS'ifch. Inf. 2. Tab. 11.

0T TED Elephant Harris. Aurel. pi. 44.

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