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Parts 1,2, 3. 

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No. 1. 

 - Annual Report of the Geological and Natural History Survey of 



Minnesota, 1887. 

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Nos. 129, 130. 

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1,2. 

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Bericht des Vereines fur Naturkunde zu Kafsel, XXXIV and 

 XXXV. 



Mr. R. Trimen, F.R.S., exhibited some South African specimens 

 of the Death's-Head Moth {Acherontia Atropos), of Africa and 

 Europe, and remarked on the special adaptation of this species and its 

 Asiatic congeners (one of which, A. Satanas, Baird, was exhibited 

 for the purpose of comparison with A. Atropos) for gaining access to 

 honey stored in the combs of the various species of honey as " Hive " 

 Bees, of the genus Apis. He called attention particularly to the pro- 

 boscis of Acherontia, which — unlike those of most of the family 

 Sphingidce — was short, broad, stiff and acutely pointed, so as to be 

 exactly fitted for piercing the waxen cells of the bee's honey-comb 

 and pumping out their store of nectar. 



After reference to the evil reputation which this moth had, for at 

 least two centuries, undeservedly borne, owing apparently to its great 

 size, skull-like mark on' the thorax, and shrill squeaking cry — Mr. 

 Trimen gave instances of the dread with which it was regarded both 

 by Europeans and the native Africans in the Colony, many of whom 

 stoutly alleged that the " Bee-Moth " (as they term it), could kill a 

 man with a single sting ! 



