1900 SUPPLEMENT—RECENT INTRODUCTIONS, &C. 679 
Sphingidwe—continued. | Sphingide—continued, 
Fic, 691. Priver Hawk-Mortu. 
green, thickly dotted with white, with a white line on With the exception of the Bedstraw Hawk-Moth 
each side, and a stiff, rongh, bluish horn. The pnpa is (Deilephila galii), the last of the Hawk-Moths to merit 
dark brown, and this condition is assumed just beneath any notice in reference to the garden is the large Con- 
the surface of the ground. The Moth itself is a day-flier, volvulus Hawk-Moth (Sphinx convolvuli). This is an 
though it also ventures ont after sunset. As food-plants, erratic species here, some seasons being fairly abundant, 
however, none of the usual garden occupants over which and at others yery scarce. Those who know its habits 
it hovers seem affected by the larve. may, in favourable localities, observe it hovering in the 
evening over the Japanese 
Lily (Liliwm  awratum), 
Carnations, Honeysuckle, 
Tobacco (Nicotiana affinis), 
and many another sweet-" 
scented occupant of our 
gardens. Its chief food- 
plants, however, are the 
Bind-weeds (Convolvulus 
sepium and C. arvensis), 
two common and very un- 
desirable weeds of many 
gardens. The larye are 
seldom found, however. We 
illustrate the perfect insect 
at Fig. 695. 
Deilephila galii is a rare 
garden visitor, but, like its 
relatives above-named, fre- 
quents sweet-scented plants 
like Jasmine, Sweet William, 
and Honeysuckle, as well as 
its ordinary food-plants, the 
Bedstraws. It resembles 
D. euphorbie in colour, 
markings, and shape. The 
fore-wings are yellowish, 
with an olive-brown band 
from the tip to the hind 
margin, which the upper 
edge meets not far from the 
base of the wing, this being 
a clear point of distinction 
from D. ewphorbiw ; between 
this band and the edge of 
the wing the colour is grey. 
Along the costal margin is 
a band of olive-brown. The 
The hind-wings in gronnd- 
colour are yellow, with a 
tinge of pink. They are 
black at the base, and have 
a streak of the same colour 
extending from the tip to 
the anal angle. Between 
the black is a reddish-pink 
suffused patch towards the 
base of the wing, and a 
white patch at the inner 
Fic, 692. LARVA AND PUPA OF PRIVET Hawk-MOoTH. margin. The fringe on the 
