This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...having a white mark at the tip of the wing. The hinder wings are grey, with an ill-defined brown band running obliquely from the anterior edge to the anal angle, where the colour deepens and sometimes becomes greenish. The thorax is marked with three longitudinal bands of olive green which unite in front, and the abdomen generally has a green tinge.--The colour of the surface is occasionally obscure red, with the outer extremity of the anterior wings and the central spots deep rust-red: at other times the two central spots are united, and sometimes one of them is wanting. The caterpillar feeds on the lime, elm, birch, &c. It is pale-green, with seven oblique whitish stripes on each side bordered anteriorly with red or yellow. The head is smaller than in others of the genus, the body more attenuated in front, and there is a granular protuberance over the anus. The rarest of the three, being found only occasionally; but it seems to be pretty generally distributed throughout England. It occurs near London more frequently than in most other places; also near Exeter, York, &c. It does not seem to be i Scotch insect. Oodart's PapHlmu de France, iii. 67. Deaths head Hawk moth. DEATH'S-HEAD HAWK-MOTH. Acherontia Atropot. PLATE V. Sphinx Atropos, Linn.; Domasn, ix. PI. 289, 290 Jasmine Hawk-moth, WiOa, PL 19.--Deaths Head, Harrit.--Acherontia Atropos, Ochtai.--Bee-Tiger Moth, Curtit, iv. PI. 147; Stephens. The shortness of the proboscis and antennae, the latter terminating in a kind of hook supporting a long hairy seta, and the entire margin of the wings without indentation or sinuosity, suffice to distinguish Acherontia from the genera with which it has long been associated. Other subordinate distinctions are to be found in several peculiarities...