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observer as being especially characteristic. The insects, 

 however, at once attract attention ; the grand blue morpho 

 butterflies ; the exquisite catagrammas, with their fantastic 

 markings beneath ; the immense variety of the Heliconoid 

 butterflies, with their elongated wings and antennae and 

 striking colouration,, and the wonderful variety and beauty 



SOUTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



of the little Erycinidse, a family almost confined to South 

 America. Among other insects we notice the strangely- 

 formed and fantastically-coloured harlequin-beetle; the 

 huge rhinoceros-beetle ; the large lanthorn-fly, and many 

 others, as being equally peculiar. 



Passing next to the room which illustrates the opposite 

 continent of Africa, we are presented with a contrast in 

 the forms of life at once marvellous and interesting. 

 From the poorest continent in mammals we pass to the 



