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Localities for this species are Bromsgrove, Worcester, 
Bristol, Cambridge, Kingsbury, Teignmouth, and near Lon¬ 
don, Ramsgate, Ashford, Canterbury, Chilham, Faversham, 
Bugby, Chingford, Blandford, Lower Guiting, Wavendon, 
Stowmarket, Exeter, Dorchester, Lyndhurst, Epping, &c. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is from 
the middle of August to the end of September. 
It feeds on the lime and the elm, as also, it is stated, 
on the alder, birch, and ash. 
This handsome insect varies in different specimens in 
having more or less of a brown or green general character 
as the ground colour. The patches on the wings also 
vary in size, and in some specimens they are different 
on the opposite side. 
ACHERONTIA ATROPOS. 
death’s-head HAWK-MOTH. 
Plate II. Figure 1. 
This insect measures from four inches to five, and even 
more, across the wings. Male: front wings rich dark 
blackish brown, with a small yellowish dot near the centre, 
and a variety of rich fulvous markings. Hind wings deep 
yellow, or fulvous orange, with a broad dull black band 
near the lower margin, and a distinct narrow one within- 
side it. 
Localities for this species are York, Nunburnholme, 
Sutton-on-Derwent, Huttons Ambo, Pickering, Langwith, 
Nafferton, Barmston, Huddersfield, Cambridge, Lewes, 
Birkenhead, Teignmouth, Leicester, Bristol, Stowmarket, 
Shrewsbury, Darlington, Epping, Blandford, Burton-on- 
Trent, Exeter, Worthing, Glasgow, Winchester, Truro, 
Chelmsford, Brighton, Tenterden, Lyndhurst, Hull, Brigg, 
Scarborough, Morpeth, Hessle, Edinburgh, Dorchester, 
Lancaster, Haslemere, Reigate, Merthyr Tydvil, Thanet, 
Canterbury, Faversham, St. Lawrence, Emsworth, Bolton, 
Worcester, Carlisle, Halton, Kingsbury, The Land’s End, 
