Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . was placed ina separate cage, to which a number was attached. It was thencarefully drawn in colours, and its food-plants noted, a similarnumber being affixed to the drawing. When it underwent itsfirst change the pupa was drawn, also in colours, and the samewhen the perfect insect appeared; all the drawings having the EEAEING OF INSECTS. 547 same number as that which was affixed to the cage in which thelarva was bred. This system being stringently carried out, mis-takes were evidently imp
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . was placed ina separate cage, to which a number was attached. It was thencarefully drawn in colours, and its food-plants noted, a similarnumber being affixed to the drawing. When it underwent itsfirst change the pupa was drawn, also in colours, and the samewhen the perfect insect appeared; all the drawings having the EEAEING OF INSECTS. 547 same number as that which was affixed to the cage in which thelarva was bred. This system being stringently carried out, mis-takes were evidently impossible, and thus a vast number of in-disputable facts were added to our stores of Natural History. In addition to the instructions thus given, I should be dis-posed to add a further suggestion. No provision is here madefor preserving the insect for dissection. So, if several specimensof a larva could be found, I should suggest that a larva, pupa,perfect insect, and if possible some of the eggs, should be placedin spirits for the use of dissectors, the bottles being of coursenumbered like the Fio. 207.—Paiilio caudius. Female.(Black, white, and red.) The insect now before us is a native of Java. The upper sur-face of the wings is black, and upon them is a large white spot,flanked on either side by a grey spot. The lower wings aremarked with red very much like those of Papilio patros. The female is coloured much like the male, though she is not sobright, and there are slight differences of marking. The undersurface of the upper pair of wings is entirely brown, but thelower wings are decorated with two large oval spots, set side by N N 2 548 INSECTS ABROAD. side and surrounded by five smaller spots. These marks arevery prettily coloured, being pink round their edges and white inthe middle, so as to give them a sort of eye-like appearance. The beautiful insect which is here shown is a native ofMexico. The reader will observe that the tail of the lower wingsis not roun
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