Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . with goldenscales, and upon each is a velvet-black spot surrounded withseveral rows of the most brilliant emerald scales. The ends of the wings are bronze, and below it is purple-brown, changing to pinkish on the sides- The antemue areblack, except the firs! half of the flattened portion, which isyellow. FLATTENING in unexpected places is one of the principalcharacteristics of the Hemiptera, in which the legs, the antennse. THE SAME [NSECT IN TWO STAGES. 721 the thorax, the abdomen, and
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . with goldenscales, and upon each is a velvet-black spot surrounded withseveral rows of the most brilliant emerald scales. The ends of the wings are bronze, and below it is purple-brown, changing to pinkish on the sides- The antemue areblack, except the firs! half of the flattened portion, which isyellow. FLATTENING in unexpected places is one of the principalcharacteristics of the Hemiptera, in which the legs, the antennse. THE SAME [NSECT IN TWO STAGES. 721 the thorax, the abdomen, and sometimes the whole body, are asflat as if they had passed between rollers. In the genus Metapodius, of which the present insect—anative of Brazil—is a good example, the hind legs are theportions affected. The colour of the insect is a dull red-brown,much like that of a cockroach, the former line predominatingin a line along the middle of the hind legs. In those limbs thethigh is round, while the tibia is quite fiat, except a narrow red ridge which traverses the centre. All the legs are armed with. 3L-- fori > - ~r-r>^= Fi i; 4i52.—Metapodius latipes.( Reddish brown ) many spikes on the inner edge. It is a very odd-looking insect,and when the large hind legs are stretched at right angleswith the body, its aspect is absolutely ludicrous. Below, it isbrown flecked with white. In the two following illustrations the same insect is repre-sented in the perfect and larval stages. This is a Mexicaninsect, and in either stage of existence is very handsome. Theprincipal colours are scarlet and black. This bold contrast ofcolours is well shown on the flattened portions of the antennas,one half of which is scarlet and the other half black. Thewings are velvet-green, traversed with shining yellow stripes, 3 A 722 INSECTS ABROAD. and at the tips they change to copper-green. The lower wings r \1 \
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