Death

in a legal point of view, is either natural or civil; the former being the ce ation both of physical life and of the legal rights which attach to it, the latter the ce ation of the legal rights while the physical life remains. Death’s-head Moth, the European Acherontia Atropos, a hawkmoth with markings on the thorax resembling a skull or death’s head, hence the name. It flies after sunset and emits peculiar sounds somewhat re- Maes \ 579 aS. a DEATH’S-HEAD MOTH AND CATERPILLAR. sembling the squeaking of a mouse, a by the friction of the prooscis against the inner striated coatings of the palpi. It attacks beehives, scatters the bees, and steals the honey.