HAWK-MOTH CATERPILLARS. 311 



The caterpillar of that curious and pretty little honey-sipper, 

 the Humming-bird hawk, is green, variegated with white, and 

 it sports a tail somewhat more conspicuous, as proportioned to 

 its size, than those of its bulkier cousins above mentioned. 

 It is a feeder on that rough and trailing clinger, well known as 

 cleavers, clivers, and goose-grass, also on the ladies' bed-straw. 



The Death's-head caterpillar does not partake at all of the 

 lugubrious character or colouring of its perfect form, being 

 gaily painted of a fine yellow, obliquely striped with green, 

 and further adorned on the back by longitudinal blue and 

 black spots. It is sometimes found in August, full grown, on 

 the potato and the jasmine ; and, after self-interment, bursts 

 its temporary grave, to flit, a shape of terror, through the 

 autumn twilight. 



The Hawk-moth of the Lime affords us, in its caterpillar, 

 a pretty specimen of that shagreened skin, roughened by raised 

 dots, which is common to several of its tribe. Its colour is a 

 delicate green, adorned with the usual oblique stripes, gener- 

 ally of carmine red ; but these are varied, and sometimes 

 wanting. The body of this caterpillar, as well as most of the 

 preceding, lessens towards the head, which is small, with a 

 front of mitre-like form. 



Some of the hawk caterpillars of another genus deviate 

 yet further from the common shape, by this tapering of 

 the body towards the front being so considerable as to 



give to the head and neck, combined, the semblance of 

 VOL. II. 19. 



