The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North AmericaDoubleday & McClure Company, 1898 - 382 páginas |
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... body of the larvæ of lepi- doptera consists normally of thirteen rings , or segments , the first constituting the head . The head is always conspicuous , com- posed of horny or chitinous material , but varying exceedingly in form and ...
... body of the larvæ of lepi- doptera consists normally of thirteen rings , or segments , the first constituting the head . The head is always conspicuous , com- posed of horny or chitinous material , but varying exceedingly in form and ...
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... body of the caterpillar is covered by a thin skin , which often lies in wrinkled folds , admitting of great freedom of motion . The body is composed , as we have seen , of rings , or segments , the first three of which , back of the ...
... body of the caterpillar is covered by a thin skin , which often lies in wrinkled folds , admitting of great freedom of motion . The body is composed , as we have seen , of rings , or segments , the first three of which , back of the ...
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... body from side to side . Moults . -Caterpillars in the process of growth and develop- ment from time to time shed their skins . This process is called moulting . Moulting takes place , as a rule , at regular intervals , FIG . 22. - Head ...
... body from side to side . Moults . -Caterpillars in the process of growth and develop- ment from time to time shed their skins . This process is called moulting . Moulting takes place , as a rule , at regular intervals , FIG . 22. - Head ...
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... body are ensheathed in the corresponding segments of the a b chrysalis , and soldered over these segments are ensheathing plates of chitinous matter under which are the wings of the butterfly , as well as all the other organs neces ...
... body are ensheathed in the corresponding segments of the a b chrysalis , and soldered over these segments are ensheathing plates of chitinous matter under which are the wings of the butterfly , as well as all the other organs neces ...
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... body is robbed of its liquid contents in a large degree ; the abdomen is shortened up ; the chitinous rings which compose its external skeleton become set and hardened ; the wings are expanded , and then the moment arrives when , on ...
... body is robbed of its liquid contents in a large degree ; the abdomen is shortened up ; the chitinous rings which compose its external skeleton become set and hardened ; the wings are expanded , and then the moment arrives when , on ...
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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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anal angle Anosia antennæ apex Argynnis Arizona base Basilarchia Behr black markings black spots blue Boisduval border Brenthis British Columbia buff BUTTERFLY BOOK Butterfly.-The California caterpillar feeds cell chrysalis Chrysophanus Colias color Colorado COPYRIGHTED BY W. J. costa Cramer dark brown dark markings darker discal Early Stages Early Stages.-These Early Stages.-Unknown Entomologist Euchloë eurynome Expanse EXPLANATION OF PLATE Fabricius female fore wings fulvous genera Grapta ground-color Hair-streak hind wings Hübner inch inner margin insect larva larvæ lepidoptera life-history Linnæus Lycana male Melitæa Mexico milkweed butterfly mottled myrina Neuration of genus North America ocelli outer margin paler palpi Papilio Phyciodes Pieris Plate XXX preceding species primaries ranges Reakirt region resembles Satyrus Scudder secondaries side the fore side the wings Side view silvered southern species species is found specimens spines subcostal subfamily submarginal Texas Thecla tropical upper side W. J. HOLLAND wings are pale yellow
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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.