Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . THE CEEEPEK MOTH. 677 over the whole of the West Indies. The species which isrepresented on page 678 is a native of Guatemala. As may be inferred from the specific name rubescens, or ruddy, a reddish tint is spread over the wings, and is moreconspicuous on the upper than on the lower pairs. The generalhue is pale yellow, washed with red, and two pinkish brownlines traverse the upper wings, one nearly straight running from. Fio. HO.—Brahmsea certliia.(Brown, black, ami grey,) the tip to t
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . THE CEEEPEK MOTH. 677 over the whole of the West Indies. The species which isrepresented on page 678 is a native of Guatemala. As may be inferred from the specific name rubescens, or ruddy, a reddish tint is spread over the wings, and is moreconspicuous on the upper than on the lower pairs. The generalhue is pale yellow, washed with red, and two pinkish brownlines traverse the upper wings, one nearly straight running from. Fio. HO.—Brahmsea certliia.(Brown, black, ami grey,) the tip to the inner edge, and the other, a curved line, being nearthe base. The lower wings are marked more definitely than the upperpair. The most conspicuous mark is a large circular eye. Thespot in the middle is white upon an olive ground; then comes arather wide circle of black and another of yellow, divided fromthe brown of the wing by a narrow black line. Of the threecurved lines which run parallel to the top of the wing, the outer 678 INSECTS ABROAD. is pinkish yellow, the next yellow, and the last and innermostdark olive-green. One species, Hifljcrchirea lincosa, is very
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