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INSECTS ABKOAI 



It is one of the luminous insects. A general officer who was 

 in Hong Kong saw a number of boys throwing stones at an 

 object on the wall, which, according to his account, shone like 

 a star. He hooked the object down with his cane, brought it 

 into the house, and found that it was the species which has 

 been fiffured. 



Fig. 476. — Hotiuus suboeellatus. 

 (Brown-green, indistinctly spotted.) 



On Plate XVIII. Fig, 2 is shown another species of this 

 remarkable genus. It is a native of Ceylon. 



The upper wings are blackish grey, profusely spotted and 

 mottled with white. The lower wings are grey, changing to 

 black towards the lower edges. 



The pretty insect which is next shown is a native of 

 Venezuela, and is coloured in rather a complicated fashion. 



