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HABITS OF INSECTS. 



it to vary greatly in form, but in the moths the 

 same uniformity does not appear to be maintained, 

 as a few specimens will manifest : 



No. 1. Scales from wings of phalaena pronuba yellow under- 

 whig. 2. Ghost moth. 3. Phalaena bucephala buff tip. 4. Ph. 

 vinula puss moth. 5. Ph. potatoria, a, the female drinker moth. 

 6. Papilio brassicse great white. 7. Pap. Napi green-veined 

 butterflies. 8. Large brown moth (name omitted). 9. Acherontia 

 atropos death's head. 



But the variety of clothing with which insects are 

 decorated is most admirable and curious ! The 

 upper arid the under vestiture of the wings, their 

 fringes^ that which covers the body in different 

 parts, varies greatly ; the bird, splendidly habited 

 as he sometimes is, frequently will be found draped 

 with less variety of form and colour than the insect 

 which escapes our notice by his actions, and the 

 power of our eyes by the small ness of its parts. 

 Our lepidopterous creatures seem to be most charac- 

 teristically framed and constituted for the different 



