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INSECTS ABROAD. 



specimens inclining to chestnut. The bold markings with which 

 it is thickly covered are deep black, and the general effect is 

 exactly that of lines traced on a board with a red-hot iron. The 

 " poker-drawings " which were so much in vogue some twenty 

 years ago, produced exactly the same rich tints as those of the 

 Encaustes. 



Fig. 132. — Encaustes verticalis. 

 (Yellow and black.) 



As is often found in boldly-marked insects, the Encaustes is 

 exceedingly variable, the amount of the black markings being 

 seldom precisely alike in any two specimens, while some speci- 

 mens are very small indeed, and might be easily taken for dif- 

 ferent species. This species belongs to Java. 



The remarkable Beetle which is here shown also belongs to 



Fig. 133.— Erotylushistrio. 



(Yellow, black, and red.) 



the Erotylides, and is a good instance of the typical genus 

 Both in sliape and colour it differs so greatly from the preccdin^i 



