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THE INSECT WORLD. 



the Satyrus janira, or Meadow Brown (Fig. 173), which is very com- 

 mon, in the months of June and July, in woods and fields. 





-Chionobas aello. 



We now pass on to the second section of Lepidoptera. 



It contains those whose flight in the majority of species is fiocturndi 

 or by twilight, but by day in some species. The antennce are more or les. 

 sivollen out in the middle or before their extremities, and, independe7itly oj 



Fig. 173. — Meadow Irown (Satyrus {H ipparchia\janira). 



that, sometimes prismatic, sometimes cylindrical, sometimes pectinated o\ 

 i7idented. The body — which was small in coinparison to the wings, am 

 which was remarkably thin between the ihoj^ax aud the abdomen in th 

 first section of Lepidoptera — is in this section very much lajger in propot 

 tion to the wings, and is not draw?i tightly i?i between the thorax am 

 the abdomen. The wings are horizontal or slightly ificlined when th 

 insect is at rest ; the upper then cover the lower, which are generally 

 comparatively short a?id kept back by a bridle on the first^ in the case 

 the males only. 



