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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
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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).i,;. 492.—Paogonia Amboinensia (Drown, black, ami yellow.) with a bee-like aspect about it. The colour is very dark brown,with a coating of yellow down on the thorax, and a black bandacross the base of the abdomen. WE now take an example of the typical genus, Tdbwrwhilaris, an East Indian insect. The general colour is reddish brown. The head is white, thethorax is traversed by two grey streaks, and the abdomen bythree similar stripes. The large compound eyes are divided into PLATE XX. fpfpf
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THE BREEZE FLIES. 753 two distinct regions. The upper region is composed of very-large facets, while theremainder is composed ofvery small facets. Thisremarkable arrangementof the facets is found inseveral other insects. There is a genus ofTabanidse called Acantho-mera, or thorn-legged,because a sharp spikeprojects from the end ofthe thigh. They are verylarge insects, and muchresemble the grey fliespopularly known as Mil-lers, except that they aremuch larger. The species which is here given is Brazilian. The abdomenis dark brown, and so is the thorax. The latter, however, is

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