. Australian insects. Insects. LEPIDOPTERA. 2()7 and is of a uniform pale creamy yellow colour, thickly mottled on the base of the wings with red and black. We now come to a curious allied group, the Ophiderinae, the members of which are known as the "Oi-ange-piercing moths"; they are large handsome insects with the head and thorax thickly clothed with scales forming a regular crest, and furnished with a proboscis which, pointed and barbed at the tip. enables them to thrust it through the rind of Jl /^^. i^ til. ^ "^^m' . \ Fig. 132.—Life History of the Bean Moth, Fluxia vertici
. Australian insects. Insects. LEPIDOPTERA. 2()7 and is of a uniform pale creamy yellow colour, thickly mottled on the base of the wings with red and black. We now come to a curious allied group, the Ophiderinae, the members of which are known as the "Oi-ange-piercing moths"; they are large handsome insects with the head and thorax thickly clothed with scales forming a regular crest, and furnished with a proboscis which, pointed and barbed at the tip. enables them to thrust it through the rind of Jl /^^. i^ til. ^ "^^m' . \ Fig. 132.—Life History of the Bean Moth, Fluxia verticillata (Gueiiii). Showiiiij the half looper form of the caterpillar, and the loose silken cocoon of the pupa. oranges and other ripe fruit and suck up the juice. Tryon has figured and written an interesting account of these moths in the Queensland Agricultural Journal Vol. ii. 1898. Mucnas salaminiame-Amwefi 314 inches across the wings; the fore pair are bright olive green, with a broad stripe of creamy white along the anterior margins; the hind wings are an orange j-ellow colour, and each with the margin and centre black. ^ The thorax is bright olive green, and the abdomen of an orange yellow colour. It ranges from thf northern parts of New 8outh Wales to North Queensland, and at Cairns I used to capture them at night with a net and bull's-eye. lantern, as they hovered round bunches of ripe bananas hanging under the house. Othreis fullonica, slightly larger than the last, has the foi'e wings mottled. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Froggatt, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1858-; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS; Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS. Sydney, W. Brooks
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