CHAPTER XII. 



THE DEATH'S HEAD MOTH. 



FIG. 43. The Death's Head Moth. 



It is in Several Respects 

 a Most Remarkable 

 Species. 



THE remarkable and beautiful Sphinge, the Death's 

 Head Moth, attains an expansion of wing sometimes 

 not far short of six inches, being therefore not only the 

 largest of our indigenous Lepidoptera, but, with one 



