Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 488.—Callipavipus Westwoodii.(Pale brown ; white train.) work is an example of the singular genus Callipappus, a maleof which is here shown. As to the female, she is simply hideous. She is a big, black, 74 6 INSECTS ABROAD. plump, flat, grub-like creatine almost an inch and a hali inlength, and looking as if she would bnrst if touched. The male, on the contrary, is a beautiful, though not brightlycoloured insect. The body and wings are pale brown, but fromthe tail proceeds a train o
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 488.—Callipavipus Westwoodii.(Pale brown ; white train.) work is an example of the singular genus Callipappus, a maleof which is here shown. As to the female, she is simply hideous. She is a big, black, 74 6 INSECTS ABROAD. plump, flat, grub-like creatine almost an inch and a hali inlength, and looking as if she would bnrst if touched. The male, on the contrary, is a beautiful, though not brightlycoloured insect. The body and wings are pale brown, but fromthe tail proceeds a train of soft glistening white threads, look-ing exactly like the tails of the spun-glass birds which are sopopular af bazaars. This species is a native of Australia DIPTERA. DIPTERA. As their name implies, the Diptera possess only two , again, cannot be folded, and the place of the lower pah-is taken by two little winglets or balancers. The mouth isformed for suction. Without going further into technical de-tail, we will proceed to a short description of the insects whichhave been selected as ex
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