Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . 71. —Deilephila dam us.(Brown, red, yellow, and white.) very dark, rich, chocolate-brown. From the base of the wingto the tip runs a bold streak of pale dun, and a border ofyellow runs round the entire wing. On the middle of theupper edge there is a small but conspicuous patch of white,and a number of very narrow white lines run diagonally acrossthe wing. These lines, together with a mark on the caterpillar,have earned for it the specific name of lineata, or streaked,which has been besto
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . 71. —Deilephila dam us.(Brown, red, yellow, and white.) very dark, rich, chocolate-brown. From the base of the wingto the tip runs a bold streak of pale dun, and a border ofyellow runs round the entire wing. On the middle of theupper edge there is a small but conspicuous patch of white,and a number of very narrow white lines run diagonally acrossthe wing. These lines, together with a mark on the caterpillar,have earned for it the specific name of lineata, or streaked,which has been bestowed on it by some authors. As to the lower wings, their ground colour is red. Two broad ELEPHANT HAWK MOTH. 637 black bands cross the wings, and they are edged with thorax is pale brown, with a grey-white streak runningdown it; and the antennae are brown, except the tips, which arewhite. The abdomen is rose-red, barred with black and diver-sified with white marks. This is a West Indian species, the examples in the BritishMuseum having been brought from New York, Canada, Mexico,and Fig. 372.—Deilephila daucus. Larva. The peculiar form of the Hawk Moth larva is well shown bythe accompanying illustration, which represents the caterpillarof this species. The reader will notice the narrow white linealong the back, which has already been mentioned as earningfor the insect the specific name of lineata. The Elephant Hawk Moths are so called because the larvahas the power of elongating or contracting the head and firstthree segments of the body in a way that bears some resem-blance to the mobility of an elephants proboscis. Thegeneric name Chccrocawpa signifies swine-caterpillar, and is 038 INSECTS ABKOAD. (riven to the insect on account of the resemblance in form tothe snout of a pig. The present species has a very wide range of locality, speci-mens having- been brought from Natal, Sierra Leone, Italy,Greece, and Ceylon. It is a handsome insect, the groundcolou
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