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ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH. 
there is a rounded dusky spot, and a mark of the 
saihe colour is ohsen'ahle on the base of the primary 
wings. The legs are white, brownish internally. 
After the second change of skin the caterpillar is 
brown, with sis oblique rays and the sides of the 
breast greyish. The fourth and fifth segments have ^ 
a round black spot on each side, with a lunule in 
the centre, the edges of which are white inclining to 
violet, and the middle olive-brown. When young, 
the whole body is green, a colour which it occa- 
sionally retains throughout, and in such cases the 
ohUque rays are black instead of grey. It frequents 
different kinds of willow herb f Epildbium J, lady’s- 
bedstraw, the common vine, &c. (PI. xi. fig. 2.) 
Tliis is by far the most common species of Ilawk- 
moth inhabiting Britain, as it occurs in some plenty 
in most parts of England, especially in the south, 
and we once found numerous specimens at the 
base of Salisbury Craigs near Edinburgh, and have 
seen others from different quarters of Scotland. It 
is likewise a well knovra insect throughout the con- 
tinental parts of Eiuope. 
