death's-head

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Conspicuous amidst these nocturnal moths is the richly-coloured Acherontia Satanas, one of the Singhalese representatives of our Death's-head moth, which utters a sharp and stridulous cry when seized.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

He found a grinning Death's-head there, And not the grand Apostle's face!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various

At the pipe-shop in Great Russell-street, the Death’s-head pipes were like theatrical memento mori, admonishing beholders of the decline of the playhouse as an Institution. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

The caterpillar of the Death's-head Hawk-moth, which delights in the solanin of the potato, would be killed by the acrid principle of the tithymals that form the food of the Spurge-caterpillar.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

During that year Death’s-head Moths were very numerous.

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric