164 SMALL ELEPHANT HAWK- MOTH. 



occurred in so many different localities, that it must 

 be pretty generally distributed over England. The 

 neighbourhood of Birmingham, Salisbury, and Lon- 

 don, have at times afforded it in some plenty. 



HUMMING-BIRD HAWK-MOTH. 



Macroglossa Stettatarum. 



PLATE XII. Fig. 1. 



Sphinx Stellatarum, Linn. ; Donovan, vii. PI. 155. Humming- 

 bird Sphinx, Harris"* Aurel. PI. 24 Macro. Stellataram, 



Ochsen., Stephens. 



THE present genus and that immediately following, 

 are at once distinguished from the other Hawk- 

 moths by having a tuft of scaly hairs at the extre- 

 mity of the abdomen. Macroglossa is further cha- 

 racterized by having the short abdomen strongly 

 tufted on the sides, the wings opaque, and the 

 suctorial trunk of great length, at least equal to 

 that of the body, a circumstance which has sug- 

 gested the generic name*. The only species found 

 in Europe is that represented on the adjoining 

 plate. It measures from twenty to twenty-four 

 lines between the tips of the anterior wings, which 

 are of a dusky brown, with several transverse waved 

 bands, most of them obsolete, except two near the 

 middle, which are of a deep black, with a dot of 

 the same colour in the space between. The hinder 

 * From fAotx^os, long, and yXwrat, the tongue. 



