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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 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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uced one-half. In some specimens the wings arewholly translucent, as shown in the illustration, and in othersthey are spotted with brown at the intersections of the nervures.Their whole surface is extremely iridescent. The remarkable insect called Cystosoma Saundersii is anative of Australia, and is a singular example of imitation,being almost exactly like the Cystocoelia which has been de-scribed on page 342. In this insect the abdomen of the male is extremely large,and quite hollow, th« vital portions only occupying a slightstreak of thicker substance on the lower surface of the abdomen.The horny cover of the drum, to wdiich reference has beenmade, is seen just at the base of the lower wings. The objectof this singular structure is uncertain, but some entomologiststhink that the hollow abdomen may increase the resonance ofthe sound produced by the drums. The female has a much smaller abdomen, but it is solid andopaque, whereas that of the male is quite translucent. The PLATE XVIII.
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THE LANTKJiX FLY, 73:3 general colour is green. The upper wings are pale green, withhe nervures of the lower surface traced in a brighter green, and

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