Insects abroad - being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations (1883) (14782927892)

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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

Subjects: Insects

Publisher: London : Longmans, Green

Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ansparent spot surrounded with black, and that again by alarger circle of the same hue. Then comes a rather wide circleof yellow, followed by another of pink, both being bounded byblack lines. The outer edge of the wings is dark brown. I presume that my readers are acquainted with that prettylittle bird the common Creeper. One of its scientific names isCerthia, and the accompanying insect has been named after itin consequence of the similarity of colouring. In the Moth as well as the bird, brown is the leading colour,but it is so varied and broken up with grey, black, and yellow,that it is impossible to state what is really the ground colour.The outer edge of the wing is yellowish, and the two lightpatches near the tip are yellow. The series of angular marks arewhite, and look just as if they had been painted with Chinesewhite. The base of the upper wings is very dark brown. Theinsect is a native of Northern India. The genius llyperchirea is a very large one, and is spread PLATE XVII.

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THE CEEEPEK MOTH. 677 over the whole of the West Indies. The species which isrepresented on page 678 is a native of Guatemala. As may be inferred from the specific name rubescens, or ruddy, a reddish tint is spread over the wings, and is moreconspicuous on the upper than on the lower pairs. The generalhue is pale yellow, washed with red, and two pinkish brownlines traverse the upper wings, one nearly straight running from

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