Sphinx and Hawk Millers 



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pressed up against the body of the chrysalis, as is 

 the case with the Pen-mark miller's pupa shown in 

 Fig. 99. Figs. 100 and 101 show the caterpillar 

 and moth of this miller. Some of the relatives have 

 no jug-handles at all. 



The jug-handles are among the largest and 

 stoutest of the I^epidoptera. 

 They are the millers which we 

 see flying around the flowers at 

 night, and when their tongues are 

 out searching for honey in the 

 flowers they look so much like 

 humming birds and act so much 

 hke these little befeathered mites 

 that they are often mistaken for 

 them. 



There are between three and 

 four hundred of these millers. 

 One kind lives on the pine trees and others on all 

 sorts of leaves. A great many of them are down in 

 Mexico, Central America and South America. 

 June and July is the time you will find them at 

 home, flying around the flowers in the evening. 



Our potato " worm " moth belongs to the 

 largest ones of this family, and, although its tongue 



