24 THE BUTTERFLY VIVAIUUM. 



represented is supposed to have just issued from the 

 chrysalis, the empty shell of which is seen lying on 

 the right bank of the little bay near the front angle. 

 The larva, or caterpillar, of this fine Moth is shown 

 feeding on a small spray of Privet to the left, the 

 stem of the sprig beiug placed in one of the con- 

 cealed bottles of water, as described when treating 

 of the structure of the Vivarium. It is one of the 

 handsomest of our British larva?, and yet by no 

 means rare, being found at the proper season, if 

 carefully looked for, wherever there are Privet 

 hedges, or large bushes of Privet in the shrubberies ; 

 its size, and its bright colouring, being light apple- 

 green with diagonal stripes of violet, rendering it 

 very conspicuous among the dark green leaves 

 which form its favourite food. I have no space 

 here to say more respecting this handsome Moth 

 and its transformations, which will be fully de- 

 scribed in the Chapter treating of the entomological 

 order Lepidoptera, which includes the whole family 

 of Butterflies and Moths. 



Above the Privet Hawk-moth is the fine orange- 

 coloured Butterfly, Colias JSdusa, popularly known 

 to collectors as the Clouded Yellow, probably from 

 the colour of the female, in which the bright orange 

 of the male is subdued in the hind wine's to a 



