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INSECTS ABKOAD. 



foliage 

 it 



of the insect is rather more than a foot, thus evidently exceec 

 the length of our page. The insect is a native 

 of Brazil. 



The general colour of the wings is very much 

 like that of our Death's-head Moth, with the 

 exception of a bold yellow patch at the base of 

 the lower pair. The whole of the body is pale 

 grey, powdered with tiny black specks, and each 

 segment is edged with black, while along the 

 sides are five bold patches of orange. The 

 enormous proboscis is very wide and flat at the 

 base, and tapers with a most beautiful grada- 

 tion to the tip, where it is comparatively small. 



I have not been able to obtain any informa- 

 tion as to the habits of this rare and splendid 

 insect, but I think, judging by the length of the 

 proboscis, that it must feed on the wing, and 

 obtain its nourishment b} T thrusting the pro- 

 boscis into the nectars of some long-belled 

 flower, which could not be reached by the 

 proboscis of any ordinary insect. 



The name of Smerinthus is very familiar to 

 English entomologists, by reason of the very 

 pretty Lime 

 Hawk Moth, 

 which belongs 

 to this genus, 

 and which is 

 so difficult to 

 see as it hangs 

 among t h e 

 leaves with its 

 wings droop- 

 ing just like 

 the 



on which 

 rests. 



The word 

 is Greek, and literally signifies a fishing-line, or a cable. 



i-'i', :;:r. —Macroglia cruentus. 

 (Brown, chocolate, and yellow i 



