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PLATE CCLXIX. 



SPHINX OCELLATA. 



Eyed Hawk Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna thickeft in the middle. Wings deflexed when at reft. 

 Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SriS! ONTMS. 



Wings angulated. Pofterior pair red, with a large blue eye in the 

 middle of each. 



Sphinx Ocellata : alis angulatis, pcfticis rufis ocello coeruleo. 



Fab. SyJi.Ent. 536. I. 

 Sphinx Ocellata, alis repandis, pofticis ocellatis. Linn. Syjl, 



Nat. 2. 796. I. — Fn. Sv. 1083. 

 Phalana alis inferioribus macula ophthalmoide infignibus. Alb. Inf. 



tab. 8. fig. 2. 



Drury Inf. 2. tab. 25. fig. 2. 3. 



Roef Inf. phal. I . tab. I . 



Schaff. Icon. tab. <)<)' fig- 5. 6, 



Merian Europ. 2. tab. 87. 



The Sphinges are only, in a few inftances, remarkable for that 

 gaiety and fplendour of colours, which render the Butterfly tribe fo 



E 4 plcafing 



