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INSECTS ABROAD 



mode of accounting for the nomenclature is to consider that one 

 eye is reckoned with each wing. The insect has rather a large 

 ranee of locality, being found both in North and South America. 

 The figure represents the male insect, in which the colours 

 are more distinctly shown than in the female, and the marks 

 more closely resemble eyes. I take the description from a 

 specimen in my collection. The upper wings are reddish brown, 

 becoming rather pinkish on the outer edge, and having a narrow- 

 pink line running parallel with the edge. A waved mark of a 

 similar hue is near the base of the wing, and near the centre is 



Fig. 406 Teles Polyphemus. 



(Pale blown, pink, ami yellow.) 



a transparent eye-like spot. The lower wings are of a darker 

 colour, and the pink stripe is accompanied by one of a blackish 

 hue. The transparent eye-like spot is about the size of that of 

 the upper wings, but is so surrounded with yellow and black 

 as to bear a singular resemblance to a human eye with dark 

 eyebrows. 



The body is of the same colour as the upper wings, and the 

 thorax is clothed with long hairs, which in the male project in 

 two long tufts over the base of the wings. The insect being 

 a very large one, the figure is little more than half its real size. 



THE two following illustrations represent an insect very beauti- 

 ful both in form and colour, the Attacus [or Tclca] luna of North 



