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entirely loses its rich livery, it becomes brown on the back, and of a 

 dirty yellow on the rest of its body, and constructs for itself a cocoon 

 at the foot of the shrub on which it lived, with the debris of leaves 

 fastened together with threads. 



The cocoon contains a chrysalis (Fig. 185) of a hazel brown, 

 delicately streaked with a darker brown, and with a very conspicuous 

 black spot on each of its stigmata. 



The Elephant Hawk-Moth (Deilephila \Ch<zrocampd\ elpenor, 

 Fig. 1 86) is not rare during the month of June. Its fore wings are 



Fig. 186. Deilephila (Chaerocampa) elpenor. 



purple red, glossy above, with three bands of a light olive green, having 

 at the base a small black spot. The inner margin is garnished with 

 white hairs. The hind wings are of a dark rose colour above, with 

 the base black, and the hind margin bordered with white. The four 

 wings are rose coloured below, with the costa and the middle of an 

 olive green ; the upper ones have their interior border tinged with a 

 blackish colour. The body is rose colour, with two longitudinal 

 bands of an olive green over the abdomen, and five diverging lines of 

 this colour on the thorax. The sides of the abdomen have along 

 them a double series of yellowish points. 



The caterpillar of this sphinx (Fig. 187) is of a dark brown, 



