Identifier: insectsabroadbe00wood (find matches)
Title: Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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oth 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 Chcerocampa signifies swine-caterpillar, and is 638 INSECTS ABKOAD. given to the insect on account of the resemblance in form tothe snout of a pig. The present species has a very wide range of locaUty, speci-mens having been brought from Natal, Sierra Leone, Italy,Greece, and Ceylon. It is a handsome insect, the groundcolour of the upper wings being pink, on which are a numberof black mottlings and grey-white sj^ecks. Just at the base ofthe wings there is a large square mark of very dark olive green.
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Fig. 373. —Chi»rocauii>a Nerei.(Brovvu, green, and pink.) The lower wings are brown, glossed with green. The thoraxand abdomen are brown, with some grey marks on the former,and the margins of the segments edged with wliite in the latter ;the whole body having a pretty silken appearance. Altogetherit bears no small resemblance to our Oleander Moth. It is a very variable insect, both in size and colour, and insome specimens there is little except brown. In all, thecolours merge so gradually with each other that it is noteasy to define any line at which one colour ends and theother begins. LABELLING INSECTS. 63J In the Museum tliere is an empty pupa-case with the castlarval skin still adhering to it. The original label is preserved,written by the person who reared the insect. It runs as follows :Oleander iSIoth : Caterpillar and skin and moth-bread. WhenI first read the label I was puzzled, knowing bee-bread wellenough, but never having heard of moth-bread. However, itwas soon appa

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