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THE INSECT WOELD. 



the English name "Elephant/' when they change their place or 

 are engaged in eating. It is of a beautiful green, with white 

 stripes and dots on the sides, and marked on the third segment 

 with two large spots like eyes, of an azure blue, encircled with 

 black, and haying white pupils. A short orange-coloured horn 

 rises at the extremity of the body. A few days before its trans- 

 formation, this caterpillar 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 debris of leaves fastened together with threads. 



Tig. 185. Pupa oi' Deilephila (Chseroeampa) nerii. 



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

 delicately streaked with a darker brown, and with a very con- 

 spicuous black spot on each of its stigmata. 



Fig. 186. Deilephila (Cluerocampa) elpenor. 



The Elephant Hawk-moth (Deilephila (Ckcerocampa) elpenor) 



