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INSECTS ABROAD. 



vermilion stripes. The lower pair are also black, marked with 

 one broad band of orange, and another of greenish yellow. It is, 

 however, a singularly variable insect in point of colour, for there 

 are several specimens in the British Museum which have the 

 bauds of the upper wings green instead of red. 



The insect which is here shown is a native of the Celebes, and 

 is an example of mimicry, not of another insect, but of vegetable 



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i- 1>-. SIB. — Ajijiias Zariuda. 

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life. The colour of the wings is a ruddy orange, exactly the hue 

 of the Virginian Creeper leaf in the middle of autumn. The 

 long pointed shape of the wings adds to the resemblance, which 

 is so close that, if one of these insects were to settle on a A r ii- 

 ginian Creeper, the keenest-sighted entomologist would have very 

 great difficulty in distinguishing it from the leaves among which 

 it had alighted. It is slightly variable in its hue, some speci- 

 mens having rather more of the yellow and less of the red than 

 the generality. These are probably females. 



Like 1 Msmorphia, this is a very large genus, containing species 

 of very dill'erent rnluu,-, some of them 80 closely resembling our 



