Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Im. ii :.—ClisiocHUipii .-ylvutii-n and Laxra.(Brown ami dun.) The general colour of the larva is dark black-grey with lightgrey and yellowish streaks. In the background is seen the web<^instructed by this larva, which much resembles that which isspun by the larvae of the common English Lackey Moth. Owing to the size of the insect, which measures six inchesacross the wings, the figure of Ceratocampa regalia is muchreduced in dimensions. It is a native of North America, andis more comm
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Im. ii :.—ClisiocHUipii .-ylvutii-n and Laxra.(Brown ami dun.) The general colour of the larva is dark black-grey with lightgrey and yellowish streaks. In the background is seen the web<^instructed by this larva, which much resembles that which isspun by the larvae of the common English Lackey Moth. Owing to the size of the insect, which measures six inchesacross the wings, the figure of Ceratocampa regalia is muchreduced in dimensions. It is a native of North America, andis more common than welcome. The colour of the upper wings is olive, streaked with lightred, and the lower wings are rust-red, paling into yellow towardsthe upper edge. The thorax is rust-red, edged and streakedwith yellow, and the abdomen is coloured in the same manner,the edges of the segments being marked with yellow. As may be seen by the illustration on page 682, the larva is aformidable looking creature, with its panoply of horrent n most places where it lives it is dreaded almost as much asif it
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