Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . nding into a black stripe along the lower edge. Inthis patch there are three round spots, which are powdered witha blue dust. The abdomen is cream-coloured, with some blackspots. The female resembles the male, but the colours are duller, andthere is a larger proportion of brown. Another fine example of this genus is seen in SerecinusMontela, also a native of Northern China. The illustration 5S4 INSECTS ABROW). represents a male, which is coloured as follows. The groundhue is yellowish wh
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . nding into a black stripe along the lower edge. Inthis patch there are three round spots, which are powdered witha blue dust. The abdomen is cream-coloured, with some blackspots. The female resembles the male, but the colours are duller, andthere is a larger proportion of brown. Another fine example of this genus is seen in SerecinusMontela, also a native of Northern China. The illustration 5S4 INSECTS ABROW). represents a male, which is coloured as follows. The groundhue is yellowish white, upon which are drawn a number of darkbrown stripes and marks. There is a large scarlet patch at theanal angle of the lower wings, and the tail is slightly powderedwith blue. Below, the colour is much the same, except that thepatch on the lower wings is black, and has only a slight streakof red running through its middle. In order to show the contrast which often exists betweenthe colour of the two sexes, the female of the same speciesis given on the opposite page. In this sex the colours are quite. Fio. ?,11.—Serecinus Montcla. Male.(White, brown, and scarlet.) as conspicuous as those of the male, though there is about themthat almost indefinable dimness which is generally to be foundin female Lepidoptera. The upper wings are brown, and are marked with three dis-tinct rows of yellow spots running in a line with the outer edge,several streaks of the same hue being between the third row andthe base of the wing. The lower wings are coloured after thesame fashion near the base, but at the anal angle there is aninterrupted band of blue, above which is a row of crimsonmarks. The tails are black, and there is a patch of brightyellow at the base. PLATE XIII
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