TAB. LXIX.
PHALÆNA OCULA TISSIMA.
G R EA T L EO PA R D E R M IN E M O TH .
P O L YMN I A T E T R A G O N O T B E C A . L IN N .
NARROW-LEAVED POLYMNIA.
Ph. Bombyx elinguis, alis fubreverfis albis : primoribus thoraceque pundtis ocellaribus nume-
rofis inæqualibus nigris, dorfo Cæruleo flavoque variegato.
Bombyx oeularia. Fair. Entom. emend. Vol. 4. 425. Cram. Pay. t. 344. f . D. and Vol. 5. t . 4 \ . f . 3.
- Catejb. Carol. Vol. 1. t. 35. female, very bad.
T h is in fed feeds on th e W ild Sun-flower, W ild Cherry, Perfimmon, &c. I t forms
a th in gummy yellow web like th e Englifh Great Tiger. Some fpun March 14th,
and came o u t the 18th o f April; others fpun on th e ld th o f Ju n e, and appeared on
the wing Ju ly ;th . T h e caterpillar w h e n fmall is one h a lf orange-coloured, the
other h a lf black, and is n o t common.
We have been abfolutely obliged to change the termination of the Fabrician trivial name,
to diftinguifh it from the Geometra. There is a fmaller Phaleena in North America, nearly
allied to this in the marking of its upper wings, but all the wings in that are naked and pellucid
towards their tips, and the back almoft entirely yellow. Fabricius feems by the Englifh
Mufeums to have confounded thefe two fpecies.