The Life Story of the Privet Hawk-Moth 143 
Tf all has gone well with our specimens, in the following June we may see the 
emergence of the moth take place. The first symptoms of the final change is a kind 
of occasional convulsive movement of the pupa, and during one of these movements the 
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Full-grown caterpillars of the Privet Hawk-Moth feeding. 
chrysalis splits at the back 
of the head portion, and be- 
fore we hardly realise what 
is about to take place, the 
head, eyes, antenne, and 
fore legs of the perfect moth 
appear, followed almost 
immediately by the  re- 
mainder of the body, around 
which the coloured wings can 
be seen clinging like wet 
rags. The moth, directly it 
emerges from the pupa, 
ba a 
CHRYSALIDES OF THE PRIVET 
HAWK-MOTH. 
Often dug up from the soil in gardens. 
ascends a branch so as to 
get clear of the vegetation ; 
selecting a suitable place 
where its wet wings have 
free access to the air, it rests 
while these gradually dry 
and become expanded and 
rigid. Up to the present 
the wings of the moth have 
assumed the resting form of 
the butterfly—with their 
upper surfaces closed together—but now that they have acquired strength, and under 
the muscular control of the moth, the insect seeks the highest point of the branch, 
and after another short period of rest we observe a sudden flap of the wings and in an 
