LEPIDOPTERA. 205 
Fig. 186) is not rare during the month of June. Its fore wings 
are purple red, glossy above, with. three bands of a light 
olive green, having at the base a small black spot. The inner 
margin is garnished with white hairs. The hind wings are of 
a dark rose colour above, with the base black, and the hind 
margin bordered with white. The four wings are rose coloured 
below, with the costa and the middle of an olive green; the upper 
ones have their interior border tinged with a blackish colour. The 
body is rose colour, with two longitudinal bands of an olive green 




































Fig. 187.—Larva of Deilephila (Cherocampa) elpenor. 
over the abdomen, and five diverging lines of this colour on the 
thorax. The sides of the abdomen have along them a double 
series of yellowish points. 
The caterpillar of this sphinx (Fig. 187) is of a dark brown, 
delicately striped with black. Two grey lines run down each side 
of its body, and on the fourth and fifth segments are two black eyes 
bordered by light violet. This caterpillar is found most often on - 
certain kinds of Hpilobium, but will also eat the vine, fuschia, and 

Fig. 188.—Pupa of Deilephila (Chzerocampa) elpenor. 
bedstraw. One must look for it indamp places, by streams and ponds, 
from the end of July till September. It constructs on the surface 
of the soil a shapeless cocoon with moss and dry leaves, which it 
