Hundreds of millions of years ago, gigantic insects once roamed ... This inhabitant of New Guinea is the largest species of butterfly in the world. It exhibits a strong degree of sexual dimorphism ...

IN Mr. McLachlan's note “On Some Peculiar Points in the Insect Fauna of Chili” (NATURE, vol. xvii. p. 162), I see, with surprise, the remark that “the large islands of New Zealand furnish us ...

New Zealand was isolated for more than ... and thaw and come out alive and kicking. It is the world’s largest freeze tolerant insect and can withstand 80 percent of its body tissues freezing.