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Chinesische Schmetterlinge : Der braune Atlas
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Insects. XXVIII. Vol. IV. No. 68., A BUTTERFLY OF CHINA., The brown Atlas., This enormous butterfly which is a native of China, belongs to the class of the moths and is superiour in magnitude to ail the kncnvn butterflies; for it equals the size of a common bat. China is not alone its native country but it is likewife met with in the hot régions of the Eaft-and Weft-Indies where in gênerai the insects are of a superiour magnitude and beauty to those in our countries. Its colour is a beautiful cinamon brown variegated with yellow, black, white and blue and of a most elegant aspect. It is principally remarkable for a triangulär spot in each of the wings which being edged with a black line consists of a thin glass-like fkin so transparent that any object, like the orange branches in our picture, may be seen as if it were through a window. Its Caterpillar which is about four inches long and as thick as a raan's finger, lives on orangetrees and spins itself into a thick coccon the web of which is ufed by the Chinese as a kind of coarfe filk for different stuffs.
