T A B . XXV.
S P H I N X E X C Æ C A T A .
A M E R IC A N E Y E D H A W K -M O T H .
R O SA C A R O L IN A . L IN N
CAROLINA ROSE. /
l. L E G I T IM A S , A L I S A N G U L A T I S .
S . alis angulatis denticulatis : pofticis rufis ocello cæruleo epupillato.
T he caterpillar was taken in October, feeding on th e wild rofe, R. C a r o l in a . I t
likewife eats th e common garden role and the oak. Oh the 30th o f October it w e n t
into the ground, and th e moth came forth the 30th o f April following. Though
found alfo in Virginia, it is a rare fpecies. This moth differs from the Englifh
S. o c e l l a t a chiefly in being fcalloped.
Befides the moft efTential difference between the S. ocellata and our excacata, which con-
fifts in the wings of the latter being fcalloped, the eye-like fpot in ours is of an uniform blue,
encircled with black, but deflitute of a dark fpot, or pupil, in the middle. Although the
leading marks of the fore wings in both have a very great refemblance, yet they are not the
fame, and the hindmoft edges of thofe wings are remarkably different. The brown mark on
the thorax in S. ocellata is much broader and more fimple than in ours.
Mr. Drury in his admirable work, Vol. 2. t. 25, ƒ. 2, 3, has figured one, and called it
ocellatus jamaicenfis, the wings of which are not denticulated, but angulated, yet not in the
fame manner as in ocellata, to which however it is more nearly allied in every refpedt than
ours is, and Profeffor Fabricius quotes it as S. ocellata without any fcruple.