. Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people : in three parts, comprising I. Mammalia : II. Birds : Part III. Reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, worms, molluscs, zoophytes, &c. : with 91 coloured plates, including about 850 figures, and numerous additional illustrations in the text . calledSphinges, and the following seven families are calledBombyces, but have fewer characters to justify theirbeing classed together than the succeeding groupsof Lcpidoptcra. Family I. Sphingidae. (Hawk-Moths.) Theseare large or moderate-sized moths with thick bodies,narrow wings, large e
. Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people : in three parts, comprising I. Mammalia : II. Birds : Part III. Reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, worms, molluscs, zoophytes, &c. : with 91 coloured plates, including about 850 figures, and numerous additional illustrations in the text . calledSphinges, and the following seven families are calledBombyces, but have fewer characters to justify theirbeing classed together than the succeeding groupsof Lcpidoptcra. Family I. Sphingidae. (Hawk-Moths.) Theseare large or moderate-sized moths with thick bodies,narrow wings, large eyes , and spindle-shaped, andfrequently serrated, antennae. They hold their wingshorizontally or sloping, and fly ra])idly at dusk, orat night, and a few species fly by day. The larvjeare naked , or thinly haired , and are generally pro-vided with a fleshy horn at the extremity of the feed on low plants, or on trees, and undergo theirtransformations in the ground, or in a slight cocoonon the surface. Fig. f. Sincrinthus ocellatns is beautiful and not uncom-mon species. Thecaterpillar is blu-ish green withwhite dots andlines, and feedson willow, apple,and other species ofSincrititlnis differfrom the otherSphingidtc in hav-ing a short pro-boscis , d^ntated wings, and Fie. Larva of Sparge Havvk-motli. It \£, common a very heavy Fopuli, the Poplar Hawk-moth , is perhaps the commonest of the largerSphingidiC. The green larva with yellow obliquelines is often met with on poplar. Fig h. Daphnis Ncrii, the Oleander Hawk-moth, is abundant in Africa and Southern Asia, butis only a rare and casual visitor in warm summersin Central and Northern Europe. The caterpillar jsgreen, with a whitish stripe on the sides, andfeeds on oleander and periwinkle. Fig. i. ChwrocaiiipaElpcnor, the ElephantHawk-moth, is a muchcommoner insect. Itderives its name fromthe structure of thecaterpillar, which hasthe front of the bodynarrowed and retractile(as has
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