The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North AmericaDoubleday & McClure Company, 1898 - 382 páginas |
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... club - shaped enlargement , and because of this clubbed form of the antennæ the entire group are known as the Rhopalocera , the word being compounded from the Greek FIG . 33.- Labial palpus of Colias , magnified 10 diameters . word ...
... club - shaped enlargement , and because of this clubbed form of the antennæ the entire group are known as the Rhopalocera , the word being compounded from the Greek FIG . 33.- Labial palpus of Colias , magnified 10 diameters . word ...
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... club , and the word xépas ( keras ) which means a born . It will be observed from what has been said that the head in these creatures is to a large extent the seat of the organs of sense and alimentation . What the function of the ...
... club , and the word xépas ( keras ) which means a born . It will be observed from what has been said that the head in these creatures is to a large extent the seat of the organs of sense and alimentation . What the function of the ...
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... club- shaped appearance ( Fig . 76 ) . This form of an- tennæ is very unusual among the moths , and only occurs in a few rare genera , found in tropical countries , which seem to represent connecting - links between the butterflies and ...
... club- shaped appearance ( Fig . 76 ) . This form of an- tennæ is very unusual among the moths , and only occurs in a few rare genera , found in tropical countries , which seem to represent connecting - links between the butterflies and ...
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... club - shaped , but are of various other forms . Some moths have thread - like antennæ tapering to a fine point ; others have feather - shaped antennæ ; FIG . 77. - Antennæ of moths . others still have an- tennæ which are prismatic in ...
... club - shaped , but are of various other forms . Some moths have thread - like antennæ tapering to a fine point ; others have feather - shaped antennæ ; FIG . 77. - Antennæ of moths . others still have an- tennæ which are prismatic in ...
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... club long and not broad ; palpi stout ; the thorax some- what compressed , with the top arched . The abdomen is mod- erately stout , bearing on the eighth segment , on either side , in the case of the male , clasps which are quite ...
... club long and not broad ; palpi stout ; the thorax some- what compressed , with the top arched . The abdomen is mod- erately stout , bearing on the eighth segment , on either side , in the case of the male , clasps which are quite ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
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.