LEPIDOPTERA. 



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rther. The body is, moreover, dotted with black. At its extremity 

 a yellow horn, curved back like a hook, and covered with tubercles. 



Fig. 195. — Chrysalis of the Death's-head Hawk-Moth. 



Tie head is green, and marked laterally with a black stripe. It lives 

 hiefly on the potato, and the Lyciiun barbarian^ sometimes called the 



Fig. 196. — Lime Hawk-Moth {Smerinihus tilix). 



a-tree, a shrub belonging to the Solanacece. It buries itself in the 

 irth to change into a chrysalis (Fig. 195) of a bright chestnut brown. 



