. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. 20O Marvels of Insect Life. SKciimns nf tlu' malo more than ;vin imlus tlu^ wiiixs. uru vulvetx black and lierv nranur, the latter colour replacing the Krccn of the allied si,ecie>. The beauty and brilliancy of this Insect are indescribable, and none but a naturalist can understand the intense excitement I experienced when I at length captured .1^ On taking it out of mv net and opening the glorious wings, my heart began to beat violently, the blood rushed to my head, a
. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. 20O Marvels of Insect Life. SKciimns nf tlu' malo more than ;vin imlus tlu^ wiiixs. uru vulvetx black and lierv nranur, the latter colour replacing the Krccn of the allied si,ecie>. The beauty and brilliancy of this Insect are indescribable, and none but a naturalist can understand the intense excitement I experienced when I at length captured .1^ On taking it out of mv net and opening the glorious wings, my heart began to beat violently, the blood rushed to my head, and I felt much more like fainting than 1 haye done when in apprehension of immediate death. I had a headache the res âf the day. so great 'â .s the excitement produced by what will appear to most peojile a yi'ry inadi'cpiati' ; A superb species' comes from Queensland. ,\mboina, etc., and measures from se\-en to ten inches across the fori â wings of the female. In the mali' these are black, but a little removed from the front margin there is a feather-like streak ' of vivid green stretching nearly from the base to the lip. and along the hinder margin then- is a narrower wavy streak of the same brilliant colour. On the hind- wings this green colour predominates, the black being restricted to a narrow border, the nervures are traced out .n black scales across the green, and between the nervures are five large, black spots. Five other spots (two of them minute) on the fore-border are (if â bright ochre. A fringe of long, brown hairs fills up the space between the inner ^^^^^^^^^ . margin of the hind-wings rnd the body I^^^^H^^HJI The head and fore-body are black, with i^^^^^^^^^r a sprinkling of green down the centre of the latter. The hind-body is oihre coloured. The richness presented hv this contrast of colour is very fine. No one would imagine trom an inspeitiun of cabinet specimens that the male â.,âââââ. and female could belong to the same species "f
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