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spots beyond these stripes. The stigmata are orange, the head 

Fig. 190.—Larva of the Privet Hawk-Moth (Sphinr ligustr¢). 
is green bordered with black. The extremity of the body is sur- 
mounted by a smooth horn, black above, yellow below (Fig. 190). 




















































Fig. 191.—Pupa of Sphinx ligustri. 
This beautiful caterpillar is not rare. It lives on a great number 
of trees and shrubs, but it is principally on the privet, the lilac, 
and the ash tree, that it must be looked for. Three or four 
days before it buries itself in the earth to change itself into a 
chrysalis, its beautiful colours grow dim. During the month of 
June and September is found the Convolvulus Sphinx (Sphinx 
convolvuli, Fig. 192), with brown wings, and with the abdomen 
striped with transverse bands alternately black and red. The cater- 
pillar of this species, which presents a great number of varieties, 
lives on many kinds of Convolvul:, but particularly on the field 
species. It is generally rare here, but occasionally abundant. 
It is to the genus Acherontia that a well-known moth 
