LEPIDOPTERA, 



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of June and September is found the Convolvulus Sphinx {Sphinx 

 convolvtili, Fig. 192), with brown wings, and with the abdomen striped 



Fig. 190. — Larva of the Privet Hawk-Moth {SJ>hinx ligustn). 



vith transverse bands alternately black and red. The caterpillar of 

 his species, which presents a great number of varieties, lives on many- 



Fig. 191. — Pupa of Sphin.x ligustri. 



inds of Convolvuli, but particularly on the field species. It is gene- 

 illy rare here, but occasionally abundant. 



It is to the genus AcJm^ontia that a well-known moth belongs. 

 V'e refer to the Death's-head Moth {Acherontia atropos). It is the 

 irgest species of hawk-moth. This insect presents, roughly marked 

 ut in light yellow, on the black ground of its thorax, a human skull 



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