12 SPOTTED HAWK MOTH. 



with pink lateral stripes, and the upper part 

 brown-black, and the lower yellow. 



Another species, the Convolvulus Hawk 

 Moth {SjoMnx convolvuli), is sometimes, but 

 rarely, found in England. Though larger than 

 the Privet Moth, it is not nearly so handsome, 

 the colour of the wings being almost entirely 

 grey and brown. The caterpillar feeds on the 

 common bindweed. 



At fig. 2, on the cut D (page 3), is seen a 

 lather remarkable chrysalis. This is the pupa of 

 the Spotted Hawk Moth {Deilephila euphorbice). 

 This Moth is a very pretty one, rather more 

 than three inches in expanse of wing. The 

 upper pair of wings are yellowish brown, mottled 

 with black, and the lower of the same hues, 

 but varied with pink. The abdomen is greyish 

 white, with two black transverse bands, and the 

 extremity is brown. 



The larva feeds on the sea-spurge {^Euphorbia 

 par alia). 



On Plate I. fig. 3, is shoAvn the Small Ele- 

 phant Hawk !Moth {Choerocampa porcellus), as 

 an example of the Elephant Hawk Moths, so 

 called from the length to which the proboscis 



