Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . ave fed on one tree only. I was dis-appointed at not finding the larva?, although I searched wellduring this and the three following days. On the second daythe butterflies were still coming out; on the third they weremuch fewer, and nearly all worn; and on the fourth day 1 didnot see a single perfect specimen, and not a dozen all the time I worked in the neighbourhood of the cityof Para I found but one specimen of a Zeonia. This was in1848. The next time T saw the genus
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . ave fed on one tree only. I was dis-appointed at not finding the larva?, although I searched wellduring this and the three following days. On the second daythe butterflies were still coming out; on the third they weremuch fewer, and nearly all worn; and on the fourth day 1 didnot see a single perfect specimen, and not a dozen all the time I worked in the neighbourhood of the cityof Para I found but one specimen of a Zeonia. This was in1848. The next time T saw the genus was at Altar do Chao, S 8 C2G INSECTS ABKOAD. where I took a few of a very small long-tailed species at Ega, a few miles up the Tetfi, I took one of another veryhandsome species at flowers, very distinct from all the others. The colours of this large genus are very similar throughout,and are generally black, scarlet, and white, the scarlet in somespecies giving way to yellow. Our first example, Zcon ia Fmmus, has the greater part ofboth wings nearly transparent. The upper wings are entirely. Fio. 368.—Zeouia Faunas(Black, scarlet, and white. | surrounded with a band of black, powdered with tiny greyspecks, and a rather jagged bar of the same hue runs throughthe middle. The upper part of the lower wings is edged withjetty black, and the lower part with black, powdered like theupper wings. In the midst of the black are two spots ofscarlet, with a slight tint of orange—something like that lovelybut too fugitive pure scarlet of the colour-makers—one ofthe spots being large and oval, and the other small and colours are nearly identical on the upper an,, under surfaceof the wing. There is only one specimen in the British Museum. On the accompanying illustration are given the two sexes ofZeonia Batcsii, in order to show the curious difference of Bhapeas well as colour between the males and females. The coloursare arranged in much the same manneraa those
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