36 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



fifteen feet up the trunk. At night it visits flowers, and seems 

 to be most partial to those of the honeysuckle. 



Suffolk seems to be the British home of this species, but odd 

 specimens have been reported since i860 from Romsey, Hamp- 

 shire ; Hinton St. George, Somersetshire ; Herefordshire ; 

 Isle of Mull (two caterpillars) ; and Bournemouth. 



The range of this species is through Northern and Central 

 Europe southwards to Northern Spain and Italy, and east- 

 ward to the Caucasus. In Japan it is represented by var. 

 caligincus, Butler, which differs but little from typical //>/cw/;7. 



The Spurge Hawk {Deikphila {Hyles) etiphorbicB), 



The fore wings are pale grey, more or less tinged with 

 pinkish and marked with olive at the base, towards the middle 

 of front margin, and a tapered band running from the inner 

 margin to the tip of the wing ; the lower part of the basal patch 

 is blackish. Hind wings pinkish with black basal patch and a 

 band before the outer margin ; a white patch at anal angle 

 (Plate 15, Fig. I). 



The caterpillar feeds, August and September, on spurge 

 {Euphorbia pa?' alias ^ and E. cyparissias). When full grown 

 the head is crimson red, marked on the crown with black ; the 

 body is black, but so thickly sprinkled with yellow dots that 

 much of the black colour is obscured ; the larger spots are 

 often crimson, but sometimes they are yellow, or even cream 

 coloured ; the stripes along the back and below the yellow spi- 

 racles are crimson, as also are the legs and feet ; the spiny horn 

 is crimson with a black tip. In a younger stage the head and 

 the horn are orange, the latter black tipped : the body is yellow 

 with patches of black around the paler yellow spots on the 

 back. Chrysalis pale brownish, minutely dotted with black ; the 

 head and thorax are marked with blackish, and the rings of the 

 body have narrow, interrupted, blackish bands ; the wing and 



