. A tour round my garden . Natural history. 64 A TOUR ROOND MY GARBEN. means of which it sucks from the depths of the flowers the honey they contain. We must not believe that because it only flies by night, this butterfly, which naturalists call a sphinx, neglects its dress. Its wings are of a grey, shaded with various browns and blacks; its body is painted with white, rose-coloured, and black rings, separated along its whole length by a grey stripe. Here comes another, still more richly clothed; its body and its wings are of two colours—rose, and olive-green. But what plaintive cry do I hear
. A tour round my garden . Natural history. 64 A TOUR ROOND MY GARBEN. means of which it sucks from the depths of the flowers the honey they contain. We must not believe that because it only flies by night, this butterfly, which naturalists call a sphinx, neglects its dress. Its wings are of a grey, shaded with various browns and blacks; its body is painted with white, rose-coloured, and black rings, separated along its whole length by a grey stripe. Here comes another, still more richly clothed; its body and its wings are of two colours—rose, and olive-green. But what plaintive cry do I hear upon that jasmine? Is it that great sphinx * which has lighted there, and takes it. D£ATH S-HEAD MOTH, into his head to moan thus? If the cry it utters is lament- able, its aspect is not a bit more exhilarating. Its upper wings are shaded with dark colours, the inferior are of pale tarnished orange, with black bands. Its body is striped with black rings, and with that same dull orange; but it is on its corselet that nature has indulged in a singular fancy; orange and black spots form, in a perfectly distinct manner, the figure of a deatVs head. * Acherontia atropoi.— Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Karr, Alphonse, 1808-1890; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. London : F. Warne ; New York : Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
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