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INSECTS ABROAD. 



Iii these insects the whole body is composed of a material 

 very much resembling the wing of a dragon fly, except that the 



nervures form two kinds of 

 meshes, the one large and 

 square, and the others small 

 and hexagonal, which fill up 

 the space between the large 

 meshes. In this species 

 the colour is reddish yellow, 

 but in another, (Eda infor- 

 mis, the creature looks 

 exactly as if it were nothing 

 but the cast skin of some 

 insect, so colourless and 

 translucent is the whole of 

 its structure. Both species 

 are Brazilian. The fijnire 



Fig. 4S1. — (Eda inermifl. 

 (Reddish and transeulent.) 



is about twice the size of the real insect. 



As. will be seen in the two following insects, the thorax is the 



Fig. 482. — Bocydiuni tint iiiti.il ml irif.>rum. 

 (Blown, black thorax.) 



part in which eccentricity of form seems to have reached its 

 utmost limits. 



