320 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 



ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTHS 



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LUNA MOTHS 



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or crescent-shaped spots in tin- middle of 

 the wings of some of the ninths represented 

 on this page and tin- in-xt. These are 

 vi'iy characteristic of tlie empi-ror-moths, 

 and there is often a transpaivnt ->pnt in the 

 centre of the concentric markings. T\M> 

 other North American s]>ecirs of this family 

 are slmwii in the photographs on paije 719, 

 rather under natural sixe. The Mv.md . >| 

 tllese, till' (.'i:CK(i]-|A MnTII.is n-])rcs,-nted 



\vithitst-ocoon. This moth has occasionally 



been captured in I-'.n^land. liavin;^ hct n 

 introduced either accidentally, or l>y design. 

 A year or two a<M> a specimen was brought 

 to the Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington which had been caught in the 

 street close by. I hiring the summer many 

 foreign butterflies and moths may !>< M-eii 

 alive in the Insect-house at the Xoologieal 

 (Jard<-ns, Uegent's I'.irk, and srveral of the 

 photographsgiven intln-se p.i-eswi-n- taken 

 from spirinicns living there in the summer 

 of igor. The largest of the emperor-moths 

 isthegre.it All iS M" I II of \ ( .i th India, 

 the largest of all known butterflies or moths, 

 \vhi. h occasionally measures almost a foot 

 - its reddish-tawny wings. 



