














200 
the window-panes, falls an easy prey to children. 
wings are of an ashy 


THE INSECT WORLD. 

Its front 
ee 

Fig. 178.—Humming-bird Hawk-moth (Maeroglossa stellatarum). 
Fig. 179.—Caterpillar of Humining- 
bird Hawk-moth (Macroglossa 
stellatarum). 

brown, of changing hues above, with 
three black, transverse, undulating lines. 
The lower, shorter than the others, are 
of a rusty-yellow colour. All the wings 
are yellowish below near the body, ferru- 
ginous 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, 
reminding one of a bird’s tail. It is for 
this reason that it has been called by the 
French sphina 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 cater- 
pillar of this remarkable Lepidopteron (Fig. 179) is of a pale green, 



