14 ELEPHANT HAWK MOTH. 



head and first two segments of the body narrow 

 suddenly like the head and snout of a hog. 



The larva feeds on various species of solium, 

 or hed-straw. 



The Elephant Hawk Moth {Choerocampa 

 Elpenor) [see page 13] is rather more plentiful 

 than the preceding insect, and may be found by 

 the side of ditches, the caterpillar feeding on the 

 common willow herb. This larva is remarkable 

 for two great black spots, one on either side of 

 the body, looking much like eyes. 



Our next insect is the Humming-bird Hawk 

 Moth (Macroglossa stellatarum), Plate I. fig. 4. 



This Moth, which is tolerably common, has 

 been very familiar to the public of late years, 

 on account of the many letters which have ap- 

 peared in the daily journals, much to the amuse 

 ment of practical entomologists, who have been 

 too familiar with the insect in question to think 

 it worth a special notice. 



It derives its name from the style of its flight, 

 which so closely resembles that of the humming- 

 bird that persons who have resided in the "West 

 Indies, and afterwards come to live in England, 

 have been deluded into the idea that they have 

 seen genuine humming-birds flying about. 



