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INSECTS ABROAD. 



the upper wings are green, with a coppery gloss in certain lights, 

 which gloss also extends over the whole of the lower wings. On 

 the under surface of the upper wings there is a row of large^ 

 rounded, black spots. 



Pio. 280.— Omithoptera Cassandra 

 (Black, green, and yellow.) 



The thorax is covered with dense hair of a jetty black, relieved 

 by some spots of bright crimson at the junction of the wings. 

 The abdomen is deep yellow. 



A brief reference has already been made to the larva3 of the 

 Ornithoptera. A figure of one of these remarkable larva3 is here 



