578 THE NATUftAh Hmmnr [ciiap, xxxix 



of them, in those repeated ehivations and depressioijs which 

 have luft their record in mysterious, but atili intt;lligible 

 characters on the face of organic nature. 



The insects of New Guinea are less known than the 

 birds, hut they seem almost equally remarkable for fine 

 forms and brilliant coloura. The magnificent green and 

 yellow Ornithopter^ are abimdant, and have most probably 

 spread westward from this point as far as India. Among 

 the smaUer butterflies are several peculiar genera of Nym- 

 pkaUdffi and Lycsenidse, remiirkable for their large size, 

 singular markings, or brilliant coloration. The largest 



and most beautiful of the clear-winged moths (Cocytia 

 d'urvillei) is found here, as well as the large and 

 handsome green moth (Kyctalemon orontes). The beetles 

 furnisi ns with many species of lai-ge size, and of 

 the most brilliant metallic lustre, among which the 

 Tmesisternus rairabilis, a longicora beetle of a golden 

 green colour ; the excessively briUiant rose-chafei-s, Lomap- 

 tera wallacei and Anacamptorhina fulgida \ one of the 

 handsomest of tlie Bupi-estidte, Cidodema wallacei j and 



