THE LIFE-HISTORY OF A BROAD-BORDERED BEE HAWK MOTH. Plate 3 

 {Macroglossa. fuciformis) 



While very young the caterpillar is liable to be attacked by an 

 ichneumon fly of the family Braconidae, which punctures the skin and 

 deposits an egg beneath. This egg hatches, and the resulting grub lives 

 upon the substance of its host, avoiding vital parts, until it is full fed, 

 when it forces its way out, and spins its cocoon on the leaf beside the 

 unfortunate caterpillar of the hawk-moth, which soon afterwards dies. 



