LEPIDOPTEEA. 



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(Fig. 186) is not rare during the month of June. Its fore wings 

 are 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 



Fig. 187. Lujrva of Deilephila (Chaerocaiupa) elpenor. 



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, 

 delicately striped with black. Two grey lines run down each side 

 of its body, and on the fourth and fifth segments are two black eyes 

 bordered by light violet. This caterpillar is found most often on 

 certain kinds of Epilobium, but will also eat the vine, fuschia, and 



Fig. 183. Pupa of Deilephila (Chserocampa) elpenor. 



bedstraw. One must look for it in damp places, by streams and ponds, 

 from the end of July till September. It constructs on the surface 

 of the soil a shapeless cocoon with moss and dry leaves, which it 



