Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . urved towards each other like the legs of a pair ofcallipers. A short account of the capture of this insect is givenby Mr. Wallace in his Malay Archipelago :— One day, a boy brought me a butterfly between his fingersperfectly unhurt. He had caught it as it was sitting wit \wings erect, sucking up the liquid from a muddy spot by theroadside. Many of the finest tropical butterflies have thishabit, and they are generally so intent upon their meal that HABITS OF THE CHAKAXES. 619 they can be
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . urved towards each other like the legs of a pair ofcallipers. A short account of the capture of this insect is givenby Mr. Wallace in his Malay Archipelago :— One day, a boy brought me a butterfly between his fingersperfectly unhurt. He had caught it as it was sitting wit \wings erect, sucking up the liquid from a muddy spot by theroadside. Many of the finest tropical butterflies have thishabit, and they are generally so intent upon their meal that HABITS OF THE CHAKAXES. 619 they can be easily approached and captured. It proved to bethe rare and curious Charaxes Kadenii, remarkable for havingon each wing two curved tails like a pair of callipers. It wasthe only specimen I ever saw, and it is still the only repre-sentative of its kind in English collections. The colour of this species is creamy white above, adornedWith sundry streaks and spots, arranged as seen in the illustra-tion. The under surface is similarly marked, but the ground-colour is silvery white instead of cream Fin. 357.— Charaxes Kailenii(Yellow, white, and brown.) The late General Sir J. Hearsey, who was a good practicalentomologist, states that he usually took the Indian species,Charaxes Fabius, on wounded apple-trees, the insect feedingeagerly on the sap as it exuded from the tree. They are allstrong-winged, and swift of flight. The genus Paphia belongs to South America, and the presentspecies was taken by Mr. Bates in the Amazons district. Thereis only a single specimen in the British Museum. Above, the colour of this insect is simply Prussian green,glossy, but not vivid. Beneath,it is very prettily marked, bein G20 INSECTS ABROAD. rather pale brown, with multitudinous pencillings of the hind wings there are two whitish spots near the base,and four bright green spots near the tip. One of the most striking examples of this genus is Pa/phiaNessus, from New Grenada. This i
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