Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . he spots and streaks forminga most singular and striking pattern. In the British Museum are two empty of an alliedspecies, Cyclosia svbeyaneus. They are of slight material, rust-red, and from their angular shape have evidently been attachedto a branch. THESE are many species of the genus Hypsa, and in most ofthem the chief colours are yellow and grey. The present species is remarkable for the difference in appear-ance between the sexes. The figure represents the female, whichis
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . he spots and streaks forminga most singular and striking pattern. In the British Museum are two empty of an alliedspecies, Cyclosia svbeyaneus. They are of slight material, rust-red, and from their angular shape have evidently been attachedto a branch. THESE are many species of the genus Hypsa, and in most ofthem the chief colours are yellow and grey. The present species is remarkable for the difference in appear-ance between the sexes. The figure represents the female, whichis coloured as follows. Both pairs of wings are from the baseto two-thirds of their length pale yellow, edged with white andsprinkled with black spots. On the edge of the wings is a bandDf pale brown, very broad at the tips of the upper pair, andnarrowing gradually to the angle of the lower pair. This bandi- traversed by narrow grey streaks, showing the course of thenervures. The male has the yellow pari of the wing much THE ISABELLA MOTH. 663 smaller than the female, and on the lower wings is a large and. Fig. 396.—Hypsa orbicularis. Female.(Pale brown, yellow, and black.) nearly circular patch of greyish brown. This mark has earnedfor the insect the specific name orbicularis, or circular. Theinsect is a native of theEast Indies. There is nothing veryremarkable in the Mothwhich is called ArctiaIsabella, the insect beingsmall, and soberly co-loured. The upper wingsare pale brown, with afew indistinct dark spots,and the lower wings aregreyish yellow, withsome dark spots, andnearly transparent. The legs are red, and the abdomen yellow,
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