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circled spiracles or breathing-holes, and finished at the nether 

 extremity by a black and yellow horn. 



Little inferior as respects colour is the garb of the Privet's 

 cousin of the lime-tree.* His surtout also is of green, sub- 

 dued towards the sides, but on the back so vivid as to dim by 

 comparison the brightness of the newest leaves which open 

 round him. His pervading hue is usually variegated on each 

 side by seven oblique stripes of yellowish-white and crimson; 

 his small mitre-shaped head is edged with, white, and his 

 six claws are tinged, like the tips of Aurora's fingers, with rosy 

 red. His horn, or tail, is bright blue, and the whole surface of 

 his body is dotted with regular rows of small tubercles, giving 

 to the skin the appearance of shagreen. A granulated skin 

 of this description is a common characteristic of hawk-moth 

 caterpillars, though not confined entirely to their tribe. 



Have we, or have we not, described already that harlequin 

 for variety of hues, and Grimaldi for grotesqueness, the cater- 

 pillar of the puss-moth? 



Whether or no, we suppose we must give place here to 

 a copy, perhaps the hundredth, of an old original portrait of 

 this insect oddity drawn by the pen of Isaac Walton: "His 

 lips and mouth," says the angler, " are somewhat yellow, his 

 eyes black as jet, his forehead purple, his feet and hinder parts 

 green, his tail two-forked and black, the whole body stained 

 with a kind of red spots which run along the neck and 



* Smerintlius Tilice. See Vignette to " Insect Movements." 



