Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . s have thecolon ling of the wings arranged after a similar fashion, exceptthat the yellow is replaced by scarlet. 342 INSECTS ABROAD. The insect which is appropriately called Cystoccelia immacu-lata is one of the oddest of its kind, though its oddness cannotbe expressed by the plain black and white of the printers illustration can but represent a large-bodied flying insect. Itcannot represent that the large, rotund, smooth body is quitehollow. If a very ripe and very large green
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . s have thecolon ling of the wings arranged after a similar fashion, exceptthat the yellow is replaced by scarlet. 342 INSECTS ABROAD. The insect which is appropriately called Cystoccelia immacu-lata is one of the oddest of its kind, though its oddness cannotbe expressed by the plain black and white of the printers illustration can but represent a large-bodied flying insect. Itcannot represent that the large, rotund, smooth body is quitehollow. If a very ripe and very large green gooseberry were takenfrom the bush, the contents removed, and the empty skin in-flated and attached to the thorax of a grasshopper, some ideamay be formed of the extraordinary appearance of the fact, the creature has come to be called the Flying Goose-berry, by way of a popular name. The inflated abdomen isquite transparent, so that if held up to the light and the fingerbe passed across it, the shape of the finger can be plainly seenthrough the body oi the insect. Inspection conducted in this. Fig. 171 —Cysl elin immaculate (Pale green : abdomen hollow and transparent.) manner shows that the whole of the vital organs live in a smallband occupying the centre of the under surface of the abdomen,tli. whole interior of the abdomen being, with this exception, HABITS OF THE CYSTOCCELIA. 343 absolutely as empty as a blown bladder. The object of thissingular structure is at present unknown. The rest of the insect differs little from the ordinary structureof the Saltatoria. The thorax rises very high in the middle, andif the insect be viewed sidewise, it will be seen that the thoraxis drawn out into a point behind, and projects over the first fewsegments of the abdomen. Its colour is opaque green, exceptthat along the ridge which crowns its summit is a slender lineof light scarlet. The genus is distributed rather widely through the world, andis found in most of the hot count
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