. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. MOTH OF Charocavipa nerii. very long trunks with great rapidity. The moth is of a browncolour, and there are black rays on the front wings, and thehinder pair are of a yellow fawn tint. The caterpillar lives uponthe bedstraw, Galium vwlugo. The Deaths Hea
. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. MOTH OF Charocavipa nerii. very long trunks with great rapidity. The moth is of a browncolour, and there are black rays on the front wings, and thehinder pair are of a yellow fawn tint. The caterpillar lives uponthe bedstraw, Galium vwlugo. The Deaths Head Moth is a well-known sphinx, on accountof its fine size, as well as from there being some markings on thethorax, which, with the aid of a little imagination, can be believedto represent a human skull. Unlike the humming-bird sphinx,the Achcrontia atropos has a short and thick trunk ; its antennae, THE SPHINGlDAi. 105 moreover, are short, thick, and terminated in a hooked head is large, and the abdomen very thick. The frontwings are blackish brown, with indistinct tawny markings anda conspicuous yellowish dot near their centres ; the hind wingsare yellow and have a narrow black central and a broad blackmarginal band. The moth possesses the power of squeaking, and this propensity. THE DEATH S HEAD MOTH. has given an infinitude of trouble to philosophers, who haveformed many theories concerning the manner in which the soundcan be produced. This gift, combined with the sombre hues ofthe sphinx, and the presence of the deaths head upon its back,have surrounded the moths with much mysterious dread, and thereare many people in the most civilised and learned countries in theworld that are heartily afraid of them. They are said to be a signof bad luck, and are supposed to precede a death in the house;and they once produced a downright panic in Brittany. The squeak-ing appears to be connected in some way or other with a small I06 TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. membranous cap
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