NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH MOTHS, 
SPHINGIDiE. 
SMERINTHUS OCELLATUS. 
EYED HAWK-MOTH. 
Plate I. Figure 1. 
This moth measures from two inches and three quarters 
to nearly three and three quarters. I have a specimen 
in my cabinet which is only two inches and a half in width. 
It is the smallest I ever saw. Male: front wings, which 
are scooped on the outer side, fine rich rose-tinted grey- 
brown, very pleasingly variegated with pale chocolate or 
olive brown, of which there is a bar indistinctly traceable 
across the middle, waved most on the inner side; the outer 
corner brown, the tip pale on its upper half. Hind wings 
elegant rose red, shaded off to grey on the margin, with a 
large greyish-blue eye spot encircling a black pupil, and 
surrounded by a black rim, in the shape of a Q with its 
tail, near the lower corner. 
Localities for this species, which is widely distributed 
throughout the country, are, among others, York, Scar¬ 
borough, Huddersfield, Nafferton, Sutton-on-I)erwent, 
Halton, Wavendon, Lewes, Manchester, Leicester, Fal¬ 
mouth, Ashford, Canterbury, Faversham, Bisterne, 
Carlisle, Wallasey, Lyndhurst, Bromsgrove, Worcester, 
Birkenhead, Bristol, Epping, Brighton, Blandford, Darling¬ 
ton, Burton-on-Trent, Exeter, Cambridge, Preston, Ply¬ 
mouth, Stowmarket, Shrewsbury, Winchester, Tenterden, 
Teignmouth, Worthing, &c. In Scotland it is rare. 
The situations where it is found are very various, as are 
the trees it frequents in the larvse state, both near water 
and far from it. 
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