Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 482.— Bocydiuni ;rum.(Blown, black thorax.) part in which eccentricity of form seems to have reached itsutmost limits. MODIFICATIONS OF THE THORAX. 741 The first of them is Bocydium tintinnabulariferum, a native ofBrazil. Although the largest of the extensive group to which itbelongs, it is but a little creature, being about as long as a com-mon house-fly, but not so stoutly made. The colour of the bodyis pale brown, while that of the thorax, with its extendin
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 482.— Bocydiuni ;rum.(Blown, black thorax.) part in which eccentricity of form seems to have reached itsutmost limits. MODIFICATIONS OF THE THORAX. 741 The first of them is Bocydium tintinnabulariferum, a native ofBrazil. Although the largest of the extensive group to which itbelongs, it is but a little creature, being about as long as a com-mon house-fly, but not so stoutly made. The colour of the bodyis pale brown, while that of the thorax, with its extendingappendages, is black. The form of these appendages can bebetter seen by reference to the illustration than by four round knobs look very much like hawk-bells, and havegiven rise to the long specific name, which signifies are covered with long black hairs. The generic name Hypsauchenia signifies high-necked, and,as may be seen by reference to the illustration, is very appro-priate. The figure is much enlarged, the insect being about as. Fig. 483. - Hypsauchenia Westwoodii.(Brown; black thorax.) large as the preceding species. It is one of an extensive groupall of which are remarkable for the singular development of thethorax, and its division into a fork-like extremity. It is rathervariable in point of hue, but the average colour of the body ispale brown, and that of the thorax blackish brown. It is anative of the Philippines. One species, Hypsauchenia Hard-wichii, has the extremity of the thorax just like a pair of sugar-tongs, the ends of the fork being flattened into a spoon-likeshape. 742 INSECTS ABROAD. THE genus Cercopis is familiar to English entomologists bymeans of the pretty Scirlet Hopper (Cercopis sanguinoknta),whose scarlet and black wings look so beautiful upon the fern-leaves on which the creature loves to rest. The present species, which inhabits the Philippines, is a verylar<?e and fine one, though it does not possess the b
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