The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North AmericaDoubleday & McClure Company, 1898 - 382 páginas |
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Página 82
... South , the chrysalids and caterpillars which may be un- developed at the time of the frosts are destroyed , and that when these insects reappear , as they do every summer , they represent a wave of migration coming northward from the ...
... South , the chrysalids and caterpillars which may be un- developed at the time of the frosts are destroyed , and that when these insects reappear , as they do every summer , they represent a wave of migration coming northward from the ...
Página 85
... are known to inhabit the hot lands of Central and South America . But one genus is found in the Old World , Hamadryas , confined to the Australian region . They are protected like the Euploids and the Heliconians . In flight 85.
... are known to inhabit the hot lands of Central and South America . But one genus is found in the Old World , Hamadryas , confined to the Australian region . They are protected like the Euploids and the Heliconians . In flight 85.
Página 86
... south- western portion of the United States . I myself have never re- ceived specimens of any of them which indisputably came from localities within our limits , and no such specimens are found in the great collection of Mr. W. H. ...
... south- western portion of the United States . I myself have never re- ceived specimens of any of them which indisputably came from localities within our limits , and no such specimens are found in the great collection of Mr. W. H. ...
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... recurved . The feet and legs are black . The caterpillar feeds upon the various species of passion - flower which are found in the South- ern States . Chrysalis . The chrysalis is dark brown , marked with 97 Genus Dione.
... recurved . The feet and legs are black . The caterpillar feeds upon the various species of passion - flower which are found in the South- ern States . Chrysalis . The chrysalis is dark brown , marked with 97 Genus Dione.
Página 99
... South America . ( 1 ) Euptoieta claudia , Cramer , Plate VIII , Fig . 9 , 8 ( The Variegated Fritillary ) . Butterfly . The upper side of both wings is dull ferruginous , darker toward the base , crossed by an irregular black median ...
... South America . ( 1 ) Euptoieta claudia , Cramer , Plate VIII , Fig . 9 , 8 ( The Variegated Fritillary ) . Butterfly . The upper side of both wings is dull ferruginous , darker toward the base , crossed by an irregular black median ...
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The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of ... William Jacob Holland Visualização integral - 1898 |
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Amblyscirtes anal angle antennæ apex Argynnis Arizona Atrytone base Basilarchia Behr black spots blue Boisduval border Brenthis BUTTERFLY BOOK Butterfly.-The California caterpillar feeds cell chrysalis Chrysophanus Colias color Colorado COPYRIGHTED BY W. J. costa Cramer dark brown darker discal discocellular dorsal Early Stages Early Stages.-These Early Stages.-Unknown Entomologist Euchloë Expanse EXPLANATION OF PLATE Fabricius female fore wings fulvous genera Grapta gray ground-color Hair-streak hind wings Hübner inch inner margin insect larva larvæ Lerema life-history light spots Linnæus Lycana Melitæa Mexico milkweed butterfly mottled Neuration of genus nicippe Oarisma ocelli Oligoria outer margin paler palpi Papilio Phyciodes Pieris Plate XLVII Plate XXX preceding species primaries radial vein Reakirt region resembles Satyrus Scudder secondaries sexes shade side the fore side the wings Side view Skipper southern species species is found specimens subcostal subfamily submarginal Texas Thanaos Thecla upper side vein W. J. HOLLAND wings are pale
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Página 282 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With...
Página 93 - Entomology extends the limits of being in a new direction, so that I walk in nature with a sense of greater space and freedom. It suggests besides, that the universe is not. roughhewn, but perfect in its details. Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Página 76 - Lo.! the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With silver fringed, and freckled o'er with gold. On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower, They, idly fluttering, live their little hour ; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring their age, and sunshine all their day.
Página 226 - What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the works of Nature, To raine in th...
Página 197 - Hot midsummer's petted crone, Sweet to me thy drowsy tone Tells of countless sunny hours, Long days, and solid banks of flowers; Of gulfs of sweetness without bound In Indian wildernesses found; Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure, Firmest cheer, and bird-like pleasure.
Página 208 - Then we gather as we travel, Bits of moss and dirty gravel, And we chip off little specimens of stone; And we carry home as prizes Funny bugs, of handy sizes, Just to give the day a scientific tone.
Página 57 - Why art thou here, with thy gaudy dye, When she of the blue and sparkling eye Must sleep in the churchyard low...
Página 169 - Africa, and is one of the commonest, as well as one of the most deadly, of poisonous snakes.
Página 294 - HURT no living thing : Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing, Nor cricket chirping cheerily, Nor grasshopper so light of leap, Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat, Nor harmless worms that creep.
Página 3 - As the laws of Nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole organic world; therefore, the study of butterflies — creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity — instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.