Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 474. Fulgora latornaria.(Wings brown and chestnut ; head crimson, yellow, and blue.) abdomen of the Cystosoma, and coloured with the most brilliantcrimson, yellow, and blue. In Honduras, this insect is popu-larly called La Belle. We now come to some of thos Id-looking insects which are popularly called Chinese Lantern Flies, and are found in everycollection of insects brought from China. It is very difficult tojudge of the real colours of these insects, as the hues fade almostimmedi
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 474. Fulgora latornaria.(Wings brown and chestnut ; head crimson, yellow, and blue.) abdomen of the Cystosoma, and coloured with the most brilliantcrimson, yellow, and blue. In Honduras, this insect is popu-larly called La Belle. We now come to some of thos Id-looking insects which are popularly called Chinese Lantern Flies, and are found in everycollection of insects brought from China. It is very difficult tojudge of the real colours of these insects, as the hues fade almostimmediately after death. The form, however, is of more im- CHINESE LANTERN FLIES. 735 portance than the colour. Like the Lantern Fly, the head ofthe accompanying insect, which is a native of Java, is largelydeveloped and hollow. Its chief peculiarity is the manner inwhich it is covered with multitudinous spikes, short, sharp, andsturdy, the use of which it is difficult even to conjecture. Thecolour of the wings is brownish green, spotted with Fro. —Py^ops nobilis.(Brown, green, and blaok.) There are many species of this genus found in Africa, India,and Ceylon, and they vary much in dimensions, some being nolarger than the common house-fly. Another of these creatures is Hotinus subocellatus, a nativeof various parts of China. The general colour of the upper wings is pale ruddy brown,with a number of indistinct dark red spots, surrounded withyellow, upon them. Towards the tips they become is a reddish patch upon the lower wings, and a somewhatvague pattern in brown. 736 AMKOAD. It is one of the luminous insects. A general officer who wasin Hong Kong saw a number of boys throwing stones at anobject on the wall, which, according to his account, shone likea star. He hooked the object down with his cane, brought itinto the house, and found that it was the species which hasbeen figured.
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