200 THE INSECT WOULD. 



the window-panes, falls an easy prey to children. Its front 



Fig. 178. Humming-bird Hawk-moth (Macroglossastellatarum*). 



wings are of an ashy brown, of changing hues above, with 



three black, transverse, undulating lines. 

 The lower, shorter than the others, are 

 of a rusty-yellow colour. All the wings 

 are yellowish below near the body, ferru- 

 ginous in the middle, and of a dark brown 

 at their extremities. 



The body is long, brown, hairy, and 

 terminating in a tuft of divergent hairs, 



Fig. 179. Caterpillar of Humming- 



bird Hawk-moth 



(Macrog.'ossa 



rpTT1 :;!, . 

 T HQing 



P KiTrP tnil Tf ie 

 a S tail. 



this reason that it has been called by the 

 French sphinx moineau, or sparrow sphinx. This resemblance is 

 so great that Mr. Bates, in his book on the Amazons, says he often 

 shot species of this genus in mistake for humming-birds. The cater- 

 pillar of this remarkable Lepidopteron (Fig. 179) is of a pale green. 



