. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 410 THE BUGONG. mate, except that the base of the upper wings is boldly striped with rusty red, and the radiating streaks on the lower wings are of the same warm tint. In both sexes the under surface is brown, with pale yellow spots on the iipper wings, and narrow streaks of pale red on the lower wings. The spread of wings is about three inches. One species of this genus {Heliconia charitunia) is very gregarious in its habits, great numbers gathering in some i^articular spot, and playing
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 410 THE BUGONG. mate, except that the base of the upper wings is boldly striped with rusty red, and the radiating streaks on the lower wings are of the same warm tint. In both sexes the under surface is brown, with pale yellow spots on the iipper wings, and narrow streaks of pale red on the lower wings. The spread of wings is about three inches. One species of this genus {Heliconia charitunia) is very gregarious in its habits, great numbers gathering in some i^articular spot, and playing about like the gnat assemblies that are so coninion in the summer time. 80 plentiful are they, that when tired they can hardly find a jjlace to rest upon, as crowds are con- tinually settling upon the neighboring trees, and as continually driving off the crowds which have just sat down to rest. The last figure represents the Maes^us, a very elegantly shaped buttei-fly, a native of tro])ical America. The ground color of the wings is black, diversified with many bold strijies and patches of orange, and a large golden-yellow mark across the extremity of each upper wing. In the illustration, the white patch on the upjjer wings represents the golden-yellow of the insect. In the upper left-hand corner of the engraving on page 405 is another example of this genus. The upper wings of the Lysimnia are chestnut at the base, and thence black to the tip, with the exception of two bold patches of nearly transparent membrane. The under wings are chestnut, edged with black, and having a jagged black sti'eak across them, above which is a transparent stripe. The under surface is colored in nearly the same manner, except that a row of white spots luns around the edge. To the same elegant family belong the butterflies of the genus Euploea, a good example of which is the Midamus. This insect strongly reminds the British entomolo- gist of the purple emperor, the sober brown of the wings changing t
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