THE BUGOMG. 



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Arabul that is so fond of the Bugong as to dash at it while the 

 natives are cooking it. For this audacity, however, the bird 

 mostly pays with its life, a club being flung at it with the 

 unerring aim of the savage. The popular name of " moth " is 

 probably given to this insect because the body is very stout. 

 The colour of the Bngong is brown, with two round black 

 spots on the upper wings. 



The Lorenzo (given on opposite page) is a native of the Solomon 

 Islands, and appears to be scarce, as there is only one specimen in 

 the British Museum. The colour is brown, with two little white 

 patches on the upper wings, and an interrupted band of white 

 on the low r er wings. Both sides are coloured alike. 



Although the Euplceas are mostly clad in sober colours, some 

 of them are really handsome insects. There is, for example, 

 Euploza Diocletia, of the Philippines, a really beautiful Butterfly, 

 its wings glowing with changing purple, just like those of our 

 Purple Emperor. Another rather striking insect is JSuplosa 

 Palla, of Arii, which is quite black except a single row of round 

 white spots upon the edges of the wings. 



Here is the insect to which reference was made in the descrip- 

 tion of Dismorphia arise, page 573. The resemblance between 



K,. ?,?.2.— Thyridia [orMethona] Psidii. 

 (Black and pale yellow.) 



