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THE LIME HAWK MOTH. 



Sphinx T'dice. 



PLATE xxin. 



Sphinx Tilise, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 797. Merian's Ins. 

 ii. p. 80, No. 2 Donovan's Brit. Ins. x. p. 3, pi. 325. 



Smerinthus Tiliae, Latreille. 



THE antennae are thickest in the middle ; the 

 wings are angulated, the superior ones of a fine 

 rose colour, with two square patches of green on 

 each, and a broad band of green at their exterior 

 sides, and margined with crimson ; the thorax and 

 abdomen are also green, and a yellowish triangular 

 patch on the back ; the lower wings are of a rich 

 yellowish brown, margined with crimson. The 

 wings of the male are two inches and one-sixth to 

 one inch and two -thirds ; the female is from two 

 inches and a third to three inches ; they are some- 

 what three-lobed in form. 



The caterpillar is emerald green, and solitary in 

 its habits; the segments banded, spotted with 

 crimson and yellow, and thickly covered with 

 punctured white dots. It feeds on the lime-tree, 

 alder, elm, oak, and birch, and changes in Sep- 

 tember to the pupa state, and remains in that 



