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The Living Animals of the World 



Photo by Highley. 



ELEPHANT HAWK MOTHS. 

 Showing position when at rest. 



Photo by Highley. 



LUNA MOTHS. 



A green North American moth with tail, allied to the English 

 Emperor-moth. 



or crescent-shaped spots in the middle of 

 the wings of some of the moths represented 

 on this page and the next. These are 

 very characteristic of the emperor-moths, 

 and there is often a transparent spot in the 

 centre of the concentric markings. Two 

 other North American species of this family 

 are shown in the photographs on page 719, 

 rather under natural size. The second of 

 these, the CECROPIA MOTH, is represented with 

 its cocoon. This moth has occasionally been 

 captured in England, having been intro- 

 duced either accidentally or by design. A 

 year or two ago a specimen was brought 

 to the Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington which had been caught in the 

 street close by. During the summer many 

 foreign butterflies and moths may be seen 

 alive in the Insect-house at the Zoological 

 Gardens, Eegent's Park, and several of the 

 photographs given in these pages were taken 

 from specimens living there in the summer 

 of 1901. The largest of the emperor-moths 

 is the great ATLAS MOTH of North India, 

 the largest of all known butterflies or moths, 

 which occasionally measures almost a foot 

 across its reddish-tawny wings. 



