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INSECTS ABKOAD. 



(riven to the insect on account of the 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 arc 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. 



i'i... S73.— Chserocampa Nerei. 

 (Brown, green, and pink.) 



The lower wings arc brown, glossed with green. The thorax 

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

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

 the whole body having a pretty silken appearance. Altogether 

 if 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. 



