Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . >** ? •- ?Ir^-- <£ PlO. 379.—Urania Sloanus.(Black, emerald, gold, aud crimson.) The upper wings are velvet-black, and next the base come fivenarrow emerald bars. Then comes a broad bar of ruddy goldextending across the centre of the wing, then a narrow bar ofthe same colour, and lastly, a short stripe of emerald near thetip. The lower wings are crimson glossed with gold and spottedwith black, while the tips are emerald-green. HABITS OF THE UKANIA. 647 A long and admirable descript
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . >** ? •- ?Ir^-- <£ PlO. 379.—Urania Sloanus.(Black, emerald, gold, aud crimson.) The upper wings are velvet-black, and next the base come fivenarrow emerald bars. Then comes a broad bar of ruddy goldextending across the centre of the wing, then a narrow bar ofthe same colour, and lastly, a short stripe of emerald near thetip. The lower wings are crimson glossed with gold and spottedwith black, while the tips are emerald-green. HABITS OF THE UKANIA. 647 A long and admirable description of this Moth and its habitsis given by Mr. Gosse in his work on Jamaica, but want of spaceprohibits it from being inserted here. In describing this beautiful insect, the want of adequatemeans to express colour becomes more and more apparent. Evenas it appears in the sober black and white of the printers ink,it is evidently a striking insect, but in its natural colours it issimply superb. There is but little colouring in the wings, which. Fin. 380.—Cocytia DurviliiWings transparent. Body tlue-grean.) are quite transparent and edged with a bold black line, the onlyexception to which is an orange patch at the base. It is in the body that the chief beauty lies. The thorax isdeep black, and so is the tip of the tail, with the exception of alittle patch of gold-coloured hair. The rest of the abdomen isthe most brilliant blue, glossed with green, and having a satin-like sheen about it. This beautiful insect is a native of NewGuinea. 648 INSECTS ABROAD. We how come to the typical genus of the large group calledCastniicke. 1 may here remark that the best systematic ento-mologists have long entertained doubts as to the right arrange-ment, not only of the Moths, but of Butterflies, and that, as I havealready mentioned withregard to the Hymenoptera, an entirelynew arrangement seems to be imminent. Even as it is, amonth scarcely passes over without some alteration in therelative
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