Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals : selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists . 57 SPHINX Labrusca?,Wild Vine Hawk-moth. Generic Character.—See PI. 81. Specific alis integris ; anficis virescentibus, Jascid triangulari cetitrali macu-loquefusco ornatis ; posticis medio cceruleo-nigris, 7nargme fulvo;abdominis lateribus punctis quinque ?iiveis. S. Wings entire; anterior greenish, with a central triangular bandand
Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals : selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists . 57 SPHINX Labrusca?,Wild Vine Hawk-moth. Generic Character.—See PI. 81. Specific alis integris ; anficis virescentibus, Jascid triangulari cetitrali macu-loquefusco ornatis ; posticis medio cceruleo-nigris, 7nargme fulvo;abdominis lateribus punctis quinque ?iiveis. S. Wings entire; anterior greenish, with a central triangular bandand black spot; posterior bluish black in the middle, the mar-gin fulvous ; sides of the body with five snowy spots, S. Labruscae. Gmelin, p. 2380. 14. Fab. Ent. Sys. 3. p. 377. Cra-mer, pi. 184. a. LiNN^us has well observed, that the great distinctions ofhis three genera of Lepidoptera, were, that Butterflies areseen on the wing only during the day; Hawk-moths, orSphinxes, at the rising and setting of the sun; and Mothsduring the night. The insects of Europe, indeed, offer butfew exceptions to these characters ; but the habits of certainexotic tribes, in each of these families, partake both of oneand the other in a remarkable manner. Thus, amo
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