320 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 





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ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTHS 



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LUNA MOTHS 



A green North Artierkan moth luith tai/y allied to the Erig/hh Emperor 

 moth 



or crescent-shaped spots in the middle of 

 the wings of some of tlie moths represented 

 on this page and the next. These are 

 very characteristic of the emperor-moths, 

 and there is often a transparent spot in the 

 centre of the concentric marl<ings. Two 

 other North American species of this family 

 are shown in the photographs on page 719, 

 rather under natural size. The second of 

 these, the Cecrhpia Moth, is represented 

 withitscocoon. This moth has occasionally 

 been captured in England, having been 

 introduced either accidentally or b)' design. 

 A year or two ago a specimen was brought 

 to the Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington which had been caught in the 

 street close by. During the summer many 

 foreign butterflies and moths may be seen 

 ali\-e in the Insect-house at the Zoological 

 Gardens, Regent's Park, and several of the 

 photographsgi\'en inthese pageswere taken 

 from specimens living there in the summer 

 of 1901. The largest of the emperor-moths 

 is the great ATLAS Moth of North India, 

 the largest of all known butterflies or moths, 

 which occasionally measures almost a foot 

 across its reddish-tawnv wings. 



