Hawk Moth

a family of the lepidopterous insects, forming along with the clear winged moths and the burnets and foresters the tribe Spin. hinges. They are insects generally of rapid flight, and fly about in the twiy. HAWK MOTH. light; some species also during the day. Their caterpillars are sixteen-legged, flat, smooth, often green, with transverse stripes on the sides and nearly always a horn on the back of the seeond last segment. One of the most remarkable hawk moths is the Death’shead. It sometimes measures nearly 6 inches acro the wings.