Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . colouring of this insect. Perhaps the yellow may be the pre-dominant colour, or perhaps the white, or the black. It does SINGULAR COLOURING. 703 not in the least matter, for the actual insects exhibit just sucheccentricity of colouring, and it is absolutely impossible to saydefinitely what the ground colour really is. Some specimensare almost entirely sooty brown, others are mostly grey, likelichens; in others the yellow predominates, while in some theprevailing characteristic is a serie
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . colouring of this insect. Perhaps the yellow may be the pre-dominant colour, or perhaps the white, or the black. It does SINGULAR COLOURING. 703 not in the least matter, for the actual insects exhibit just sucheccentricity of colouring, and it is absolutely impossible to saydefinitely what the ground colour really is. Some specimensare almost entirely sooty brown, others are mostly grey, likelichens; in others the yellow predominates, while in some theprevailing characteristic is a series of black blotches and is equally variable in size, and in this insect sex hasnothing to do with the variation, some of the smallest specimensthe British Museum being females. This specimen is a m native of Northern India. The delicate-looking insect which is here represented is anative of Sarawak, and belongs to the small family calledMicronidse. The colour is a peculiarly soft, creamy white, with a kind ofsparkle upon it here and there as ifdered glass hadthinly sprinkledthe pow-been overOn theupper wings are sixtransverse .stripes of thepalest brown, four beinglong stripes and theother two short. Onthe lower wings aretwo stripes and a fewpencillings of the samehue. The only positivecolouring in the insectis found in the little black spots along the edge of the upperwings, and the short streaks on the edge of the lower wings. The specific name astheniata signifies enfeebled, and refersto the paleness of the colours. Another species, Micronia jus-tasia, of New Guinea, is almost exactly like this insect, exceptthat it has three brown bands on each wing. There are twenty-nine species in the British Museum. Fig. iSi.—Micronia astheniata.(White and pale brown.) The genus Panagra is a very large one, and is mostly Africanor Australian, from which latter country the present species 704 INSECTS ABROAD. was brought. Generally they are dull coloured and small, and t
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