Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Via. ;.—Mictis syrabolica.(Drown, with yellow cross on back,) THE OAR-FOOT. 71lJ Above, its colour is brown, dark towards the head, and lighttowards the extremity of the body. Bold yellow lines are distri-buted in such a way on the back, that when the wings areclosed they assume the form of St. Andrews cross, and thusgive rise to the specific name symbolica. When the wings areopened, the abdomen is seen to be reddish above, and below itis pale brown. Both names of the following in
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Via. ;.—Mictis syrabolica.(Drown, with yellow cross on back,) THE OAR-FOOT. 71lJ Above, its colour is brown, dark towards the head, and lighttowards the extremity of the body. Bold yellow lines are distri-buted in such a way on the back, that when the wings areclosed they assume the form of St. Andrews cross, and thusgive rise to the specific name symbolica. When the wings areopened, the abdomen is seen to be reddish above, and below itis pale brown. Both names of the following insect refer to the shape of itshind legs. The generic name is formed from two Greek words,one signifying a flat plate and the other a leg. The specific. Fig. 460. - Petascelis remipes.(Brown, yellow, and chocolate.) name is Latin, and signifies oar-footed. It is a native ofSouthern Africa. The thorax is brown edged with yellow, and having a stripeof the same colour down the centre. The wings are chocolate-brown, deepening at the tips. Below, it is brown slightlymottled with yellow. The most conspicuous point in the insectis the structure of the hind legs, which are very large, flattened 20 INSKCTS ABROAD. like an oar-blade, and are edged on the inside with a coating ofthick red down. In many of the Hemiptera the two sexes can easily be distin-guished by the hind legs, the thighs of which are large in themale and small in the female. This is the case with Molchinacomprcssicornis, which is a native of Para. The general colour of this insect is velvet-black, with anumber of metallic emerald-green scales. If examined by the
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