676 [NSECT3 ABROAD. 



We have seen many examples of tailed insects, but few in 

 which the tails run to such an extraordinary length as in the 

 Tropcca Lcto, figured at No. 1, Plate XVII. The insect is a 

 native of the East Indies. This is not the largest species, as it 

 is much exceeded by Tropcca Mccnas of Northern India. 



The colour is very simple, the light parts being greenish 

 yellow, and the dark parts pinkish brown. On the lower wings 

 there is a rather large spot of orange, and near the middle of 

 the upper pair is a large eye-like spot, the upper part of which 

 is dark brown, followed by a black curved stripe, and then by a 

 partly translucent spot. The tails are pink brown, and their 

 widened ends are yellow. 



On the same Plate, Fig. 2, is shown a South African Moth 

 ealled Ginanisa Isis. 



Though not brilliant, it is a pretty insect, having a soft owl- 

 like aspect, and its colours being almost every possible mixture 

 of brown, black, and grey, the last colour being most pre- 

 dominant at the base and near the outer edge. On the upper 

 wing there is a spot of black, followed by a transparent spot, 

 and on the lower wings there is a large and complicated eye, the 

 colours of which are arranged as follows. In the middle is a 

 transparent spot surrounded with black, and that again by a 

 larger circle of the same hue. Then comes a rather wide circle 

 of yellow, followed by another of pink, both being bounded by 

 black lines. The outer edge of the wings is dark brown. 



I presume that my readers are acquainted with that pretty 

 little bird the common Creeper. One of its scientific names is 

 Certhia, and the accompanying insect has been named after it 

 in consequence of the similarity of colouring. 



In the Moth as well as the bird, brown is the leading colour, 

 but it is so varied and broken up with grey, black, and yellow, 

 that it is impossible to state what is really the ground colour. 

 The outer edge of the wing is yellowish, and the two light 

 patches near the tip are yellow. The series of angular marks are 

 white, and look just as if they had been painted with Chinese 

 white. The base of the upper wings is very dark brown. The 

 insect is a native of Northern India. 



The genius llyperchirea is a very large one, and is spread 



