SPHINCES 



PART II. 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 



HAWK-MOTHS. 



About sixty species belonging to this family, scientifically 

 known as the Sphingidie, are recorded from the Pahi^arctic 

 region, and of these twenty-seven are found in Europe. About 

 ten only can be considered as true natives of the British Isles ; 

 seven others, though found here, are distinctly aliens, and their 

 visits, at least as regards some of them, to our islands, exceedingly 

 irregular. 



Most of the moths are of large size, many of the caterpillars 

 are of noble proportions, and in both stages they are not 

 difficult to find, if looked for in suitable places and in their 

 proper season. The caterpillars of several kinds, owing to the 

 exposed way in which they feed or rest, are especially notice- 

 able in bush and hedgerow ; the chrysalids, although sub- 

 terranean, are often freely obtained by turning up the soil 

 around trunks of trees, or under plants, upon which the 

 caterpillars feed. C* L L ' / -. ^ 



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The Lime Hawk-moth {Dilina {Mimas) tili(e).y^(^^ 



The four specimens shown on Plate 3 represent the more w 

 less ordinary form of this moth. The pale pinkish grey, or 

 reddish brown, fore wings are sometimes tinged with greenish 

 in the paler forms ; the irregular shaped band crossing the 



