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TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. 
in the genus Macroglossa, and one of them is well known during 
hot summers, as the Humming Bird Moth or sphinx. They are 
to be seen in the bright sunshine flying from plant to plant 
with great velocity, and sucking nectar from the flowers without 
resting upon the petals. Like the humming birds, they make a 
buzzing noise, and hover over their favourite flowers, and feed 
without crumpling a leaf. They suck up the honey through their 
moth OF Chcerocampa nerii. 
very long trunks with great rapidity. The moth is of a brown 
colour, and there are black rays on the front wings, and the 
hinder pair are of a yellow fawn tint. The caterpillar lives upon 
the bedstraw, Galium molugo. 
The Death’s Head Moth is a well-known sphinx, on account 
of its fine size, as well as from there being some markings on the 
thorax, which, with the aid of a little imagination, can be believed 
to represent a human skull. Unlike the humming-bird sphinx, 
the Acherontia atropos has a short and thick trunk; its antennae, 
