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Fig. 178.—Humming-bird Hawk-Moth (Macroglossa stellaterum). 
ashy brown, of changing hues above, with three black, trans- 
verse, undulating lines. The lower, 
shorter than the others, are of a rusty- 
yellow colour. All the wings are yel- 
lowish below near the body, ferruginous 
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 rewoinding one of a bird’s tail. It is for 
Bens 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 
