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end of the antennae is much more remarkable than 

 in the case of the Privet Hawk-moth. There 

 is an exotic group, in which the approach to 

 the Butterfly character is still more decisive, hut, as 

 containing none hut foreign insects, it need not be 

 more particularly referred to here. 



Though the names of the great Linnaeus, Sphinx 

 and Phalcena are no longer used as the titles of great 

 divisions, they have been respectfully preserved in 

 other positions. Papilio is still the name of the 

 first genus of Butterflies though not of the whole 

 diurnal division, and forms also the family title of 

 a number of genera closely allied to Papilio, as 

 Papilionidce ; while Sphinx, though no longer dis- 

 tinguishing all the supposed twilight-flyers, is still 

 the title of a genus the Caterpillars of which first 

 suggested the term ; and also of a family group of 

 the most nearly allied genera, as Sphingidce. 

 Even the still more fanciful term Phalcena has 

 been partially retained in a similar manner. 

 I must now proceed to describe the transforma- 

 tions of the Privet Hawk-moth, as shown in 

 Plate IV. I have supposed the magnificent Cater- 

 pillar to have been captured on some privet hedge 

 in the garden of the student towards the close of 

 summer. The conspicuous appearance of this larva, 



