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INSECTS ABROAD. 



given to the insect on account of tlie resemblance in form to 

 the snout of a pig. 



The present species has a very wide range of locality, speci- 

 mens having been brought from Natal, Sierra Leone, Italy, 

 Greece, and Ceylon. It is a handsome insect, the ground 

 colour of the upper wings being pink, on which are a number 

 of black mottlings and grey-white specks. Just at the base of 

 the wings there is a large square mark of very dark olive green. 



Fio. 373.— Chserocainpa Nerei. 

 (Brown, green, and pink.) 



The lower wings are brown, glossed with green. The thora.x 

 and abdomen are brown, with some grey marks on the former, 

 and the margins of the segments edged with white in tlie latter ; 

 the whole body having a pretty silken appearance. Altogether 

 it bears no small resemblance to our Oleander Moth. 



It is a very variable insect, both in size and colour, and in 

 some specimens there is little except brown. In all, the 

 colours merge so gradually with each other that it is not 

 easy to define any line at which one colour ends and the 

 other begins. 



