Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . , fringed with pale yellowhairs. The ground colour of the abdomen is bright deep blue,clothed with short black hairs. The first two segments are alsocovered with long, thick, yellow down. The legs are black andcovered with short black hairs, changing to tawny at the endsof the tarsi. The wings are blackish brown at the base, and therest is grey, traversed with black veins. I presume that the accompanying insect derives its specificname from the colours which it wears, which are those of
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . , fringed with pale yellowhairs. The ground colour of the abdomen is bright deep blue,clothed with short black hairs. The first two segments are alsocovered with long, thick, yellow down. The legs are black andcovered with short black hairs, changing to tawny at the endsof the tarsi. The wings are blackish brown at the base, and therest is grey, traversed with black veins. I presume that the accompanying insect derives its specificname from the colours which it wears, which are those of thetraditional stage demons. It is a native of Brazil. Nearly the whole ofthe insect is black, andit is entirely coveredwith thick down. At thejunction of the abdomenwith the thorax there isa semicircular patch oflong orange hairs, anthere is a broad band ofthe same hue across themiddle of the thighs of the hindlegs are fringed with verylong black hairs above,and covered with white down below. The wings are smooth,shining brown in colour, and iridescent with various tints ofblue and -r;i r<< . 503.—Asilus Lnfernalis.(Black and yellow.) Our last example of the family is Asilus coriarius, a nativeof New Holland, which is represented as in the act of chasingprey. The specific name coriarius is formed from a Latin wordsignifying «the bark of a tree, and is given to the insect onaccount of its resemblance in colour to the rough brown barkof the oak or similar tree. The colour of the abdomen is warm brown, with a black barat its base, and a series of tufts of jet black hair along the sides. A DIPTEROUS ANT-LION. 761 The thorax is brown, edged with white down, and a large quan-tity of similar down grows on its under surface. A patch of
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