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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 barbariim^ sometimes called the 



Fig. 196.— Lime Hawk-Moth {Smerinthiis tilice). 



lea-tree, a shrub belonging to the Solanacece. It buries itself in the 

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



