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THE INSECT WORLD. 



. -,• ^f o \^\yA'^ tail It is for this reason 



divergent hairs, -— g one of a b^^d^ad. ^I^.^^^^^^ ^^ 



that It has been called bygthe^^^^^^nc ^^_^ fesemblance is so great, that 

 Mr Bates, in his book on the Amazons, 

 says he often shot species of thi^ genus m 

 mistake for humming-birds. The cater- 

 DiUar of this remarkable Lepidopteron 

 Fi? 179) is of a pale green, with eight 

 transversal rows of small white dots and 

 four longitudinal rows, of which two are 

 white and two yeUowish. It has a dark 

 blue horn, with an orange-coloured tip. 

 r . 11 rof It lives on different species of bed-straw, 

 ,S:S;r;i^^^trS^S^ but by preference on the Galium mollugo 



[Macroglossa steilatarum). ^^^^^^ V^^ metamorphosis, it CncloSCS itSClf 



in a shapeless cocoon, made of the debris^ 'Z^l^'V^t^^ 



Sed l^tlS'l skin'is I thm and transparent that one can 

 follow it through all the phases of transformation to the imago. 



Fig. 180.— Pupa of Macroglossa stellatarum. 



The genus Deikphila is composed of species whose flight is rapid,i 

 and after sunset. Such are the Deikphila atphorhcE the OleandeJ 

 Hawk-Moth {Deikphila \Clmrocampa\ neni\ and the large l^lepnanii 

 Hawk-Moth {Deikphila \ChcErocampa\ elpenor). _ 



The Deikphila euphorbias (Fig. 181) has the upper wings 01 

 reddish grey, with three spots of greenish or olive colour along t 

 costa, or front margin, and a broad black oblique band along th 

 hind margin. The lower wings are red, with the base black, ana a 

 transverse black band towards the edge; they have, moreover ^ 



