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THE INSECT WORLD. 



the Satyrns janira, or Meadow Brown (Fig. 173), which is very com- 

 mon, in the months of June and July, in vvoods and fields. 



Fig. 172. — Chionobas aello, .] 



We now pass on to the second section of Lepidoptera. | 



It contains those 7uJiosc flight in the majority of species is nocturnal 

 or by twilight^ but by day in some species. The ajitennce are more or less 

 swollen ont in the middle or before their extremities, and, independently of 



Fig. 173. — Meadow brown {Satyrus \HiJ>parchia\janira). 



that, sojneiitnes prismatic, sometimes cyli?idrical, sometimes pectinated or 

 indented. The body — ivhich was stnall in comparison to the 7uings, and 

 7vhich was remarkably thiii between^ the thorax and the abdomen in the 

 first sectiofi of Lepidoptera— is in this section very nmch larger in propor- 

 tion to the wifigs, and is not drawn tightly in. betzveeti the thoi-ax auj 

 the abdomen. The 7vings are horizontal or slightly inclined when tlu 

 insect is at rest ; the upper then cover the lower, 7vhich are generally 

 comparatively short and kept back by a bridle 07i the first, in the case oj 

 the males only. 



