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TAB, XXV. 



SPHINX EXCJECATA. 



AMERICAN EYED HAWK-MOTH, 



ROSA CjiRQStlNA. LINX 



CAROLINA IIOSIL 



I. LEGITIME, ALiS ASGVLATI& 



S« alii anguine dcnfjeubtb: pofikU rufi* ocelli caeruko cpupilUtOr 



Tiif, caterpillar \w taken in October* fettling on the wild rofe, ft. t/iroiina. It 

 likcwjfc caw the eoraraon garden nrfe and the oak. On the joth of Oelober it went 

 into the ground, and the moth came forth (he 30th of April following. Though 

 found alfo in Virginia, it is a rare fpeeie*. Thi* moth dilfrra from the English 

 S. occilttht chicfy in bring fcnlloped. 



Bcfidrt the mod cffcntial difference between the $, w/Htte and our aumfr, which con* 

 fifl* in the wing* of the Utter being Jcallopcd, tbccrc-likc fpol to our* it of an uniform blur, 

 encircled with black, but dcftitulc of a dark fpot t or pupil* in the middk. Although the 

 leading marks of llic fore wing* in both Iuve a very great rcfcmbJanee, j*t they are not the 

 nunc, and the liindmoft edge* of thofr wingi arc rrmarkiWy different. The brown nurk on 

 the lltonx in S* wdliU i* much braider and more firaplc than in oun. 



Mr. Dniry in hi» admirable work, F*t, 3. /• 13, /. 2. 3, hi* figured one, and called it 

 utlhim frinxtftvfit* the wing* of which ore not denticulated, but aneulitcdj \xt not in ibe 

 Himc manner at in «*fitfr f to which however it u mora near!) allied in every refpe& than 

 oun it, and Profdfor tabricius quotes it a* $* utlktij without ant fcrupJc. 





