Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . e on both the body has a very butterfly-like aspect, as if to increasethe resemblance. The thorax has a tuft of long, pale brown down,and the abdomen is brown above and yellow at the sides. The genus Clisiocampa is familiar to English entomologistson account of the pretty and variable little Ground LackeyMoth {Clisiocampa castrensis). The present species is spread over a considerable portion ofEurope. Like our own insect, it is so variable that to describeit is not an easy tas
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . e on both the body has a very butterfly-like aspect, as if to increasethe resemblance. The thorax has a tuft of long, pale brown down,and the abdomen is brown above and yellow at the sides. The genus Clisiocampa is familiar to English entomologistson account of the pretty and variable little Ground LackeyMoth {Clisiocampa castrensis). The present species is spread over a considerable portion ofEurope. Like our own insect, it is so variable that to describeit is not an easy task, the description which would apply to onespecimen being quite unsuitable when applied to another. Themale is smaller than the female, and of rather brighter colours,the upper surface of the first pair of wings having a beautifully 680 [NSECTS ABROAD. gilded appearance, which extends even to the long silken hairswhich clothe the thorax and abdomen. This lovely golden hairalso runs along the edge of the lower wings, but it cannot beseen without a favourable light, which brings it out in ail itsradiance.
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