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entirely loses its rich liven-, it becomes browTi on the back, and of a 

 dirty yellovr on the rest of its body, and constructs for itself a cocoon 

 at the foot of the shrub on which it lived, with the debris of leaves 

 fastened together with threads. 



The co'coon contains a chr}-salis (Fig. 185) of a hazel brown, 

 delicately streaked with a darker brown, and with a \-er\- conspicuous 

 black spot on each of its stigmata. 



The Elephant Hawk-!vIoth {Deilephila \C/u2rocampd\ dpenor, 

 Y\i. 1S6) is not rare durinsj the month of June. Its fore wings are 



Fi^. 1S6. — Deilephila ^Chaerocampa) elpenor. 



purple red, glossy above, with three bands of a light olive green, having 

 at the base a small black spot. The inner margin is garnished with 

 white hairs. The hind wings are of a dark rose colour above, with 

 the base black, and the hind margin bordered with white. The four 

 wings are rose coloured below, with the costa and the middle of an 1 

 ohve green ; the upper ones have their interior border tinged with a 

 blackish colour. The body is rose colour, with \^'o longitudinal 

 bands of an olive green over the abdomen, and five diverging lines of 

 this colour on the thorax. The sides of the abdomen ^have along 

 them a double series of yellowish points. 



The caterpillar of this sphinx (Fig. 187) is of a dark brown, 



