Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Rhyssa nobilitator.(Black and yellow.) Celebes by Mr. Wallace, who has done so much toward enrich-ing our collections. Its colour is light yellow and shining black,arranged in the peculiar pattern shown in the are some species of Rhyssa inhabiting China. They muchresemble the Celebes insect, except that chestnut has takenthe place of black. Another species, Rhyssa lunator, is wellknown in Canada. It is about as large as Rhyssa nobilitator,but is paler in colour and has
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Rhyssa nobilitator.(Black and yellow.) Celebes by Mr. Wallace, who has done so much toward enrich-ing our collections. Its colour is light yellow and shining black,arranged in the peculiar pattern shown in the are some species of Rhyssa inhabiting China. They muchresemble the Celebes insect, except that chestnut has takenthe place of black. Another species, Rhyssa lunator, is wellknown in Canada. It is about as large as Rhyssa nobilitator,but is paler in colour and has the ovipositor half as long again. D D 402 INSKCTS ABROAD. The genus Thyreodon extends over a considerable portion ofthe globe. The fine insect which is here shown is a native of Brazil, andis one of the largest as well as the most beautiful of the head is black, and the thorax appears at first to be of thesame colour, but is in reality of the richest and deepest purple,with a velvet-like surface. The abdomen is black. It is muchcompressed, and is attached to the thorax by a curiously long. Fig. cyaneus.(Black ; wings glossed with purple.} and curved footstalk. The wings are singularly beautiful, beingdark brown glossed with purple, and shining like mother-of-pearl. There are many species of Thyreodon in the British Brazilian species has the wings brown, with a largepale yellow spot in the middle of each ; and one which inhabitsChina has the wings glossed with a beautiful golden yellow. Among all the. larger Ichneumon Flies there arc nunc thaisurpass in beauty the species which is figured on the next page,and very few that even approach it. There is nothing very remarkable about the body, which isblack, as are the head and thorax. The legs are also black,except the basal half of the tibia, which is yellow. The chiefbeauty of the insect lies in its wings, which are coloured in amost gorgeous fashion. As is the case with so many of thesei
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