38 MOTHS 



chrysalis with a short spike at the end of its 

 body, which always looks as if it had been dipped 

 into very muddy water, and dried without being 

 wiped 1 



PLATE xx 



THE LIME HAWK (i and 2) 



Although it is not quite so large, this is an 

 even handsomer moth than the " poplar hawk," for 

 its wings are tinted with the most beautiful 

 shades of green and brown and brownish-yellow. 

 When it is resting on a fence or a tree-trunk, 

 indeed, it looks very much like a folded leaf, 

 and you might easily pass it by without noticing 

 it. The caterpillar feeds on the leaves of quite 

 a number of trees, such as lime, and elm, and 

 beech, and birch, and oak. But it much prefers 

 the two first of these, on which you may find 

 it during August and the early part of September. 

 It is green in colour, sprinkled with tiny yellow 

 dots, and has seven yellow stripes on each side, 

 bordered with red. The horn at the end of the 

 body is blue or green above and yellow beneath, 

 and underneath it is a sort of flat horny plate, 

 which is purple in colour, with a yellow edge. 

 About the second week in September it buries 

 itself in the ground and turns to a reddish-brown 

 chrysalis with a spiky tail, out of which the moth 

 hatches towards the end of the following May. 



