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the English name “ Elephant,” when they change their place or 
are engaged in eating. It is of a beautiful green, with white 
stripes and dots on the sides, and marked on the third segment 
with two large spots like eyes, of an azure blue, encircled with 
black, and having white pupils. A short orange-coloured horn 
rises at the extremity of the body. A few days before its trans- 
formation, this caterpillar entirely loses its rich livery, it becomes 
brown on the back, and of a dirty yellow on the rest of its body, 
and constructs for itself a cocoon at the foot of the shrub on which 
it lived, with the débris of leaves fastened together with threads. 

The cocoon contains a chrysalis (Fig. 185) of a hazel brown, © 
delicately streaked with a darker brown, and with a very con- 
spicuous black spot on each of its stigmata. 
































































































































Fig. 186.—Deilephila (Chzrocampa) elpenor. 
The Elephant Hawk-Moth (Deilephila (Cherocampa) -elpenor 

