Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . crosses the under wings of the male looks somewhat like thepetals of a crimson flower. THE KRISHNA BUTTERFLY. 553 There is considerable difference in the colour of the upper wings are black above, and on them there is a light-coloured mark. In the male this mark takes the form of a paletriangle, in which are two white spots, whereas in the female itis wholly white. The under wings are also black, crossed in themale by a broad belt of deep crimson, and in the female by asimilarl
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . crosses the under wings of the male looks somewhat like thepetals of a crimson flower. THE KRISHNA BUTTERFLY. 553 There is considerable difference in the colour of the upper wings are black above, and on them there is a light-coloured mark. In the male this mark takes the form of a paletriangle, in which are two white spots, whereas in the female itis wholly white. The under wings are also black, crossed in themale by a broad belt of deep crimson, and in the female by asimilarly shaped band of pink, darker at the edges than in thecentre. The illustration is taken from a female specimen. Inboth sexes the bar is crossed by several black nervures, so as todivide it into a number of parallel markings. The body and abdomen are black, diversified with scarletspots, more vivid than the hue on the bars of the lower insect was taken at Santa Fe de Bogota. To describe the splendid insect which is known as PapilioKrishna is a very difficult task, owing to the variety and com-. Fig. 303.—Papilio Krishna ) (Black and green.) plication of the colours. The two specimens in the BritishMuseum came from Bhotan, in India, and the name of Krishnahas been given to it as a recognition of its Indian origin. As 554 INSECTS ABROAD. this is a large insect, the female measuring fully five inches inspread of wing, the figure has been necessarily diminishednearly one-half. Above, the upper wings are deep black, speckled profuselywith gold-green dots that look just as if emerald-dust had beensprinkled regularly over them. The magnifying glass soonshows that each of these green specks is a single green the middle of the wing runs a narrow golden yellowbar, interrupted by the nervures, which retain their black hue,and break up the bar into a succession of contiguous yellowspots. The under wings are much more complicated in the base is a large t
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