Identifier: insectsabroadbei00wooduoft (find matches)
Title: Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h, shining, silken grey, the segments beingedged with pink, and a dark chocolate stripe passing along thecentre of the thorax. We now come to those beautiful Moths the Uranias. Theylook very much more like butterflies than moths, and, indeed,were until quite lately classed among the former insects. Notonly do they look like butterflies, but they possess all thehabits of butterflies, being diurnal, and flying quite high in thefull rays of the sun. There are very many species of Urania,spread over a considerable portion of the globe. The genericname of Urania signifies heavenly, and is given to these insectspartly on account of their high-flying habits, and partly byreason of their splendid colouring, which places them amongthe most magnificent of all the Moth tribes. I will briefly describe the colours of the two species which havebeen selected as examples. The insect which is here shown really looks too gorgeous fora Moth, the brilliant colours which adorn its wings being of PLATE XV.
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THE URANIA MOTHS. 645 metallic brilliance, and shifting about with every change oflight. The ground colour of the wings is velvet-black, varie-gated with glittering emerald-green marks disposed as seen inthe illustration. The lower wings are also velvet-black, butthey are crossed in the centre by a broad bar of singularly bright

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