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DEATH'S-HEAD MOTH. 



Fig. 1 in the accompanying illustration will 

 enable the reader to detect the caterpillar if he 

 sees it, but is necessarily reduced to less than 

 half the size of a full-grown larva. 



It feeds on the jessamine and potato ; and in 

 places where the latter vegetable is much culti- 

 vated, the caterpillar is mostly common. Like 

 other caterpillars, it can be reared in captivity, 



