PRIVET MOTH. 
The name of this grand and beautiful Moth 
is derived from the favourite food of it's ca- 
terpillar, which is usually found feeding on 
Privet, though it may sometimes be met with^ 
on the lilach. 
The Caterpillar, when full fed, is about 
four inches long, and of a fine green colour. 
The head is bordered with black down each 
side ; there are seven oblique stripes of purple 
and white on each side of the body; and a 
black and glossy, sharp -pointed, horn-like ap- 
pendage, is fixed at the taiL 
It goes into the ground about the middle 
of August, where it changes into a large 
brown Chrysalis ; and, about the sixth or se- 
venth of June, this fine grand and beautiful 
Moth makes it^^s appearance, exa6lly as we 
have figured it, measuring full five inches from 
tip to tip of the expanded wings. 
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