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INSECTS ABROAD. 



was brought. Generally they are dull coloured and small, and 



this is the only one 

 which takes the eye at 

 a first glance. 



From the base to the 

 centre the colour of the 

 upper wings is dark 

 brown. Then comes a 

 stripe of greenish yellow, 

 and the rest of the 



wing is chocolate-brown. 

 The lower 

 dark brown, 



wings 



hi;. 440. Panagra tricolor. 

 i Hi own, yellow, and orange.). 



are 

 and in 

 the centre there is a 

 patch of warm 



large 



orange. 



The genus Abraxas is familiar to all English entomologists on 



Kio. 441.— Abraxas tigrata. 

 (Orange and black.) 



account of the Magpie Moths. On taking out the drawer con- 



