7G ELEPHANT HAWK MOTH. 
call this kind, from its golden spots ; 
and lastly, as the perfect fly, or, as 
that is scientifically termed, the imago 
state. 
Lucy, How pleasant it is to see all 
its different forms at one view. The 
next drawing*, mamma, shows the dif- 
ferent states of one of the sphinges. 
Mother. Yes ; the sphinx elpenor, or 
elephant hawk moth. Perhaps yon might 
find its caterpillars in the months of 
June and July, if you look in marshy 
places. They sometimes eat vine, and 
convolvolus leaves ; hut they prefer white 
ladies bed straw to any other plant. 
This caterpillar has a peculiar power 
of protruding, or pushing forward, its 
head and the three first joints of its 
body, so that it appears tapering to a 
point ; it can also draw in its head, so 
as to be entirely concealed. 
Lucy, I will certainly search for 
* Plate IV. 
