ICO SHARP- WINGED HAWK-MOTH. 
down tlie centre, and a row of small spots on each 
side of it from the third segment to the apex. 
The caterpillar varies in colour, but is most com- 
monly brown, with two yellow lines on each side, 
the lower one composed of crescent-shaped spots 
and passing over the stigmata, the other com- 
mencing on the sixth segment and extending to 
the hinder extremity. The fourth and fifth seg- 
ments are ornamented nith two large ocelli, having 
a white pupil and a yellow iris. The ordinary 
food of this larva is the common vine (Fith Vini- 
fera ), a circumstance winch, taken in connexion 
■with its rare occurrence in Britain, has occasioned 
considerable doubts as to its being an aboriginal 
native of this countiy. On the continent, however, 
it is known likewise to feed on the yellow lady’s- 
bedstraw ( Galium wt'um ), and it is not improbable 
that it can subsist, like the majority of its tribe, on 
several other plants. At the same time it appears 
properly to belong to a southern latitude, as it is 
not found in any considerable numbers except in 
the south of Emope, and its chief residence is the 
island of Teneriffe and the Cape of Grood Hope. It 
has occurred near Oxford, Wisbeach, in the Isle of 
Ely, and a few other places. 
