Life History of the Pink Elephant Hawk-Moth 363 
for at 10.50 I beheld the pink elephant, in all its beauty of perfection, “sitting” just 
as I had found the Small Elephant Hawk-Moth (much rarer species) at Westwood 
Coppice, Sutton Park, Warwickshire, in the sixties. The sight of either of these 
elephant hawk-moths sittmg among the bedstraw is one never to be forgotten. No 
gay cavalier was ever more daintily clothed im a costume of pink, with the softest 
and best-fittng nankeen breeches, than our six-legged elephant. Every hair seemed 
to have been brushed, trimmed, and powdered with silver—not a scale or feather out 
of place. The wings are slightly 
raised, exposing the beautiful pink 
and sage-green body, while the 
finish of the noble head, with 
its many-jointed silvery antenne oe 
springing out close to the large 
compound eyes, below which, 
enveloped on each side by long 
pink hairs, is the tongue or trunk 
(of course, an elephant mst have 
one), over an inch long, the 
resemblance to that belonging 
to our late frend “ Jingo ” 
of the Zoo being most striking 
when seen in section; it has 
the same double tubular arrange- 
ments of tunnels similar to the 
Britannia Tubular Bridge. The 
whole length being composed of "Fig. 10, 
rings or circular ribs, gives great 
elasticity and power of rolling it up hke a watchsprmg. When the moth is on the 
wing the long tongue is unwound and the lip inserted into the corolla of a honeysuckle 
flower, from which the nectar is taken (Hig 10). 
All the Sphinges, or Hawk-Moths, delight to fly at twilight, and those entomologists 
who desire to see them fly should watch beds of nicotiana and petunias. The slightest 
“ movement—and away the elephants fly lke a quick passing shadow. 
OUR FRONTISPIECE. 
THE coloured plate this month is from an original painting by Professor F. Hdward 
Hulme, and is one of many which he has executed for the volume on British Butterflies 
and Moths which he is contributing to the Woburn library. The insects represented 
are:—119, wood tiger, male; 120, wood tiger, female; 121 and 122, scarlet tiger larva ; 
123, scarlet tiger pupa; 124, scarlet tiger; 125, scarlet tiger at rest; 126, white dead 
nettle-food plant. 
