Natural history of animals; . i6o ARTHROPODS: INSECTS. The Five-spotted Sphinx expands about five inches,and is of a mixed grayish and blackish color, and oneach side of the body there are five orange-coloredspots surrounded by black. Its tongue, when fullyunrolled, is five or six inches long, but when not inuse is coiled up nearly out of sight. The caterpillaris known as the potato worm, and is green, with ob-lique whitish stripes on the sides, and a thorn-like pro-jection on the tail. It attains its full length, threeinches or more, in August, and then buries itself in. Fig. 272. — Larva of
Natural history of animals; . i6o ARTHROPODS: INSECTS. The Five-spotted Sphinx expands about five inches,and is of a mixed grayish and blackish color, and oneach side of the body there are five orange-coloredspots surrounded by black. Its tongue, when fullyunrolled, is five or six inches long, but when not inuse is coiled up nearly out of sight. The caterpillaris known as the potato worm, and is green, with ob-lique whitish stripes on the sides, and a thorn-like pro-jection on the tail. It attains its full length, threeinches or more, in August, and then buries itself in. Fig. 272. — Larva of Five-spotted Sphinx. tie ground. Here, in a few days, it throws off itsskin and becomes a chrysalis, of a bright brown color,
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