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INSECTS ABROAD. 



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spotted with black. The larva, however, which is here 

 shown, is very remarkable. The larvae of all the Arctias 

 are thickly covered with hair, as we know from the larva 



of our common Tiger 

 Moth, which goes by 

 the jjopular name of 

 ^v^3olly Beai'. In this 

 species the larva bears 

 such a resomblance to a 

 hedgehog, that the per- 

 fect insect lias been 

 popularly named the 

 Hedgehog Moth. I may 

 here remark that the 

 generic name Ardia sig- 

 nifies " a bear," and that 

 the specific name 7ki&c//« 

 refers to one of the bears 

 which goes by that name. 

 It is a native of Georgia. 

 In the British IMuseum there is a specimen of the larva of' 

 Ardia hyperhorea, the hairs of which are so long that the insect 

 might well be called the Porcupine Moth. 



The line insect %vhich is next shown is a native of the Hima- 

 layas, and fully deserves its specific title of imperial. 



The upper wings are rich dark brown, boldly streaked with 

 cream-white. The lower wings are deep yellow, marked with 

 patches of rather paler brown than that of the upper pair. 

 The abdomen is scarlet ringed with black, and the thorax is 

 black. On either side of the thorax is a large pointed tuft of 

 snowy white, contrasting beautifully with the black and scarlet 

 of the tliorax and abdomen. There is a little black spot in the 

 centre of the tuft. The genus liypercamjia is a very large one, 

 and widely distributed. 



Not very long before writing this account I was in the 

 British Museum, when a great sensation was caused by the 

 arrival of a new and lieautiful insect allied to the Tiger Moths. 

 It was so remarkable that an alteration was at once made in 



