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INSECTS ABROAD. 



frequenting the skirts of forests and the margins of streams in 

 forest districts. 



"The males often settle on the ground in damp and muddy 

 places, in company with many Papilionidse and Pieridte. When 

 thus resting, with wings erect, they are at once distinguishable from 

 all around them by the peculiar attitude they assume, the upper 

 wings being depressed between the lower pair, so that its basal 



Fio. 322. — Hebuiiioia (or Ijihias) leucogjmia. 

 (Red, yellow, ami black.) 



half is completely hidden by them. As probably a consequence 

 of this, we find that this basal half of the upper wings is always 

 pale in colour on the under side, and devoid of the. characteristic 

 markings of the exposed portions. The females fly rather low, 

 in woods and thickets, and, seldom coming out into the open 

 grounds, are therefore less easily captured. 



" I found the female of this interesting species flying among 

 dense thickets in the island of Borneo, and was completely 



