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other. The body is, moreover, dotted with black. At its extremity 

 is a yellow horn, curved back like a hook, and covered with tubercles. 



Fig. 195. Chrysalis of the Death's-head Hawk-Moth. 



The head is green, and marked laterally with a black stripe. It lives 

 chiefly on the potato, and the Lycium barbarum, sometimes called the 



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Fig. 196. Lime Hawk-Moth (Smcrinthus tiliue). 



tea-tree, a shrub belonging to the Solanacea. It buries itself in the 

 earth to change into a chrysalis (Fig. 195) of a bright chestnut brown. 



