Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . T thrusting the pro-boscis into the nectars of some long-belledflower, which could not be reached by theproboscis of any ordinary insect. The name of Smerinthus is very familiar toEnglish entomologists, by reason of the verypretty LimeHawk Moth,which belongsto this genus,and which isso difficult tosee as it hangsamong t h eleaves with itswings droop-ing just likethe on whichrests. The wordis Greek, and literally signifies a fishing-line, or a i-i, :;:r. —Macrogliacruentus.(Brown,
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . T thrusting the pro-boscis into the nectars of some long-belledflower, which could not be reached by theproboscis of any ordinary insect. The name of Smerinthus is very familiar toEnglish entomologists, by reason of the verypretty LimeHawk Moth,which belongsto this genus,and which isso difficult tosee as it hangsamong t h eleaves with itswings droop-ing just likethe on whichrests. The wordis Greek, and literally signifies a fishing-line, or a i-i, :;:r. —Macrogliacruentus.(Brown, chocolate, and yellow i LIME HAWK-MOTHS. 643 The insect which is given as the representative of the genusis an inhabitant of Natal, and is a very handsome species,looking, indeed, very much like our own insect greatly colours are so mixed with each other that they are not easilydescribed, but they may be briefly taken as follows. In theupper wings there is a large patch of grey-brown, slightly
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