PRIVET HAWK-MOTH. Ml 
broad longitudinal broivn stripe, having a narrow 
black Une down the middle. 
The caterpillar is one of the most beautiful be- 
longing to this tribe. It is of large size, and of a 
fine apple-green colour, ornamented with seven 
oblique stripes on each side of the body, purple 
anteriorly, and white behind. The stigmata are 
orange-yellow, and the caudal horn yellow on the 
under side and black above. Its ordinary food is 
the leaves of the common privet, but it likewise 
consumes the different kinds of lilac C Syringae ), 
the ash, the elder, and \axac\'( Daphne laureola). 
It generally changes into a chrysalis in the month 
of August, but occasionally at a much earlier period, 
as the moth has been sometimes observed on the 
wing in July. It constructs no cocoon properly so 
called, but merely forms an oval chamber in the 
earth, the sides of which it consolidates by the 
pressure of its body, and by uniting the particles by 
means of a glutinous secretion discharged fi’om the 
mouth. 
It is of not unfirequent occurrence in many parts 
of the south of England, especially in Cambridge- 
shire and the counties adjoining, but becomes rarer 
in the north, and is seldom noticed in Scotland 
although it occurs occasionally. It aboimds in 
many parts of the continent. 
