INSECTA--SPHINX CAROLINA. 861 
wrat.ge above, variegated with black and white beneath; four eyes on the 
posterior pair. Its larva feeds on nettles, thistles, docks, and other herbage, 
by the sides of ditches, and changes its state about the middle or latter end 
of July. 
THE TSPHINX CAROLINA. 
Tue larva of this moth is green, with lateral spiracles on every seg 
ment, surrounded by a purple ring; and the caudal spine is of the same 
color. When full grown, they are thickest in the middle; their horn or 
tongue is generally curled; and they have two feelers. Their wings are 
clouded, entire, and the posterior margin is dotted with white; the abdomen 
has five pairs of fulvous spots. 
In America, they are sometimes distinguished by the name of tobaccc 
moths, on account of their feeding entirely on that plant. 
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