DIFFEEENT ASPECTS OF THE HXME INSECT. 



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when the insect is at rest 

 outspread wings, that when 

 of each other, one "set" as 

 wings, they would scarcely 

 same species. 



We will begin Avith the 

 velvet-black, crossed with a 

 glittering, emerald green, 

 stripes and patches, and 



is so different from its as})ect with 

 two specimens are placed alongside 

 if flying, and the other with closed 

 be recognized as belonging to the 



upper wings. The ground colour is 

 number of narrow streaks of shining, 

 On the wing are a number of white 

 there is one point which requires 



Fio S95 — Eia>-mia pulolielld 

 (Black, green, orange, and yellow.) 



special notice. I have already mentioned the conspicuous 

 difference between the appearance of the insect in two different 

 attitudes. This is partly due to the general outline of the 

 insect, which is heart-shaped when the wings are closed, but 

 chiefly to the shape and colour of one of the markings on 

 the upper pair of wings. If the reader will refer to the figure, 

 he will see that at the base of the wing there is a white patch, 

 follow^ed by a grey stripe, and then b}' a curved bar of a light 

 colour. Now this bar is bright orange, and when the wings are 

 closed, these bars form a continuous collar-like mark, and have 

 a singularly conspicuous effect. 



The lower wings are brightly coloured. At the base they are 



