Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 330.—Euploea imitata.(Brown and white.) The species which is here given is a native of the SolomonIslands. Above, the upper wings are brown at the base, be-coming white at the tip, the outline being waved as shown in ,88 INSECTS ABROAD. the illustration. The lower wings are smoky grey-brown. Below,the colour is very much paler, and there are three white spotson the upper wings and five on the lower. One Australian species, Euplaa hamata, is remarkable forbeing used as food by the na
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 330.—Euploea imitata.(Brown and white.) The species which is here given is a native of the SolomonIslands. Above, the upper wings are brown at the base, be-coming white at the tip, the outline being waved as shown in ,88 INSECTS ABROAD. the illustration. The lower wings are smoky grey-brown. Below,the colour is very much paler, and there are three white spotson the upper wings and five on the lower. One Australian species, Euplaa hamata, is remarkable forbeing used as food by the natives, who know the insect by thename of Bugong. In certain seasons the Bugongs arrive in vastswarms, just as do locusts in many parts of the world. They. Via. 881.—Euplcea Lorenzo,(Brown and white.) settle upon the rocks, and the natives then light fires so as tosmother them with the smoke, when they are swept into fires are then lighted on the rocky ground, and the moths,as they are called, thrown on the heated ground and stirred aboutuntil they are cooked and the wings and legs separated from thebodies. They are then pounded into lumps and are fit to beeaten. Mr. Bennett describes the flavour as resembling that ofa sweet nut. The natives become exceedingly fat upon this curious diet,though at first it always disagrees with them. Birds, as well asmen, feed upon the Bugong, and there is a species of crow called THE BUGOMG. 589 Arabul that is so fond of the Bugong as to dash at it while thenatives are cooking it. For this audacity, however, the birdmostly pays with its life, a club being flung at it with theunerring aim of the savage. The popular name of moth isprobably given to this insect because the body is very stout
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