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^ith two transversed darker bars. The hind wings are 
somewhat orange in colour, with a brown margin. Tho 
body is of the same hue as the forewings, has black and 
white spots on the sides, and is fringed at the sides and end 
with black and white hairs which are spread out in flight. 
The chrysalis is smooth and light brown. The caterpillar 
is green with pinkish and white lines along the sides. 
The horn is straight and sharp, dull blue with a yellow 
tip. It feeds, as the name stellatarum implies, upon 
various kinds of bedstraw, preferring, according to my 
experience, the yellow bedstraw. The moth is found 
throughout Britain almost all the year, and though 
commoner some years than others, yet is not rare in 
Perthshire. The caterpillar is generally found in autumn. 
8. The Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth (Macroghssa 
homhylijormis) would be by the uninitiated taken for 
some kind of bee ; its great likeness to a Hymenopterous 
insect having acquired for it the name “Bee Hawk- 
moth.” or “ bombyliforniis,’* It measures an inch and 
a-half across the wings, which are quite transparent, 
except the margins, which are clothed with brown scales. 
I believe, however, that when hrst developed from the 
chrysalis the transparent part of the wing has a few 
brown scales, which soon fall off. The caterpillar feeds 
on the field scabious, and is green, dotted with yellowish 
white, and with two rows of dull reddish spots on each 
side. The horn is slightly rough, short, pointed, and 
reddish. The moth appears in May, and frequents 
flowers in the daytime. It is not uocomujon in Britain, 
but has be-n but seldom captured in Perthshire, though 
apparently widely distributed in the county. From its 
great resemblance to a bee, it may have been passed over 
perhaps, thoogh the long thickened antennae and bordered 
wings would at once distinguish it. 
The above eight, then, are all the hawk-moths we can 
at present claim as natives of the county. It is probable 
that two other species (the Elephant Hawk-moth and the 
Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth) also occur in Perthshire. 
The Striped Hawk-moth (Deiliphilalineata) may 
turn up ; but I think it is probable that none of the 
remaiuiDg five will be found in the county. 
As to the best means of capturing these beautifal 
insects, various methods may be followed. The Poplar, 
the Death’s-head, and the Small Elephant Hawk-moths 
will be best obtained in the caterpillar state, and the two 
former in the chrysalis state also. The Convolvulus, the 
Humming Bird, and the Bee Hawk-naotbs should be 
