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SMALL ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH. 
Metopsilus PorceUits. 
PLATE XI. Fig. 2. 
Sphinx Porcellus, Linn. ; Donovan^ ix. PL 314. — Small Ele- 
phant Hawk-moth, WUkes^ PL 16 ; Hanis. — Deileph. Por- 
ccllus, Curtis^ StepheTis, 
The smallest British species of the genus, the ex- 
pansion of the wings being usually about twenty 
lines. The upper nings are chiefly ochrey yellow, 
variegated with purple, the outer extremity with a 
purple band dentated on the inner side. The imder 
wings are blacki.sh anteriorly and purple behind, the 
intermediate space yellowish ; the fringe of aU the 
wings is white, with a few irregular purple spots. 
The body is entirely deep rose-colour or piuplish, 
the back occasionally tinged with greenish-yellow. 
The caterpillar resembles that of D. Elpenor, 
and feeds on similar plants, the yellow lady’s-bed- 
straw and narrow-leaved willow herb ( E. Angusti- 
folium ), being its favourite repast. It is sometimes 
greenish, but more commonly broAvn, with three 
ocelllfonn spots on each side, ha^ung a wliite pupil 
and a red iris. Tlie anal horn is very minute. The 
moth is not so plentiful as the preceding, but it has, 
