. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 176 Animal Life The}' do not wander far, but quietly feed upon the leaves one after another. Their presence in any poplar is made known by the pellets of frass upon the pavement. When full-fed, in August and September, they descend the trunks and often walk long distances before finding a convenient place in the soil in which to pupate. The beautiful Eyed Hawk is not common about London, though occasionally found feeding upon apple trees in old-fashioned gardens such as those at Waterlow Park, where it is also to be seen upo
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 176 Animal Life The}' do not wander far, but quietly feed upon the leaves one after another. Their presence in any poplar is made known by the pellets of frass upon the pavement. When full-fed, in August and September, they descend the trunks and often walk long distances before finding a convenient place in the soil in which to pupate. The beautiful Eyed Hawk is not common about London, though occasionally found feeding upon apple trees in old-fashioned gardens such as those at Waterlow Park, where it is also to be seen upon willows, its favourite food, especially when these overhang water (Fig. 1). In such situations, their pale-green bodies, with seven whitish oblique stripes on each side, give them such wonderful protective resemblance that it requires a sharp eye to detect them, as they are nearly the same width as a willow-leaf, and, like the other hawk-moths, have a more or less pronounced horn on the last segment, the point bending over towards the tail. In all three species of Smerintlms the skin is rough and shagreened. The Poplar Hawk is yellowish green, with yellow stripes and horn; the margin of the head being also yellow. Sometimes the larvte are ornamented with reddish markings. The Eyed Hawk is perhaps a little longer, but with the exception of the markings, colour of the oblique stripes, etc., being white, and the whole body covered with minute white spots giving it the shagreened appearance, the family resemblance is at once seen. In August last I found some larvae feeding upon a willow overhanging the canal at Woking, and took a photograph of them. The larvae were then boxed and transferred to my " larvarium," where they increased in length and girth until three inches long. The pose of Sphinx larvae is very striking (Fig. '2). They cannot be photographed at any moment, as one peculiarity is their extreme sensitiveness, the mere opening of a door being quite sufficient
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