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 19
... apex , and this may be rounded , acute , falcate ( somewhat sickle - shaped ) , or square . The angle formed by the outer margin of the front wing with the inner margin is commonly known as the outer angle . The correspond- ing angle on ...
... apex , and this may be rounded , acute , falcate ( somewhat sickle - shaped ) , or square . The angle formed by the outer margin of the front wing with the inner margin is commonly known as the outer angle . The correspond- ing angle on ...
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... apex of the fore wing . There are always from four to five subcostal nervules . In the hind wing the subcostal is simple . The median vein in the hind wing has three nervules as in the fore wing . Be- tween the subcostal and the median ...
... apex of the fore wing . There are always from four to five subcostal nervules . In the hind wing the subcostal is simple . The median vein in the hind wing has three nervules as in the fore wing . Be- tween the subcostal and the median ...
Página 80
... apex and more or less excavated about the middle of the outer border ; the hind wings are rounded and generally much smaller than the fore wings ; the outer mar- gin is regular , without tails , and the inner margin is sometimes ...
... apex and more or less excavated about the middle of the outer border ; the hind wings are rounded and generally much smaller than the fore wings ; the outer mar- gin is regular , without tails , and the inner margin is sometimes ...
Página 81
... apex , having a triangular outline , the outer mar- gin approximately as long as the inner margin ; the costal border is regularly bowed ; the outer border is slightly exca- vated , the outer angle rounded ; the hind wings are well ...
... apex , having a triangular outline , the outer mar- gin approximately as long as the inner margin ; the costal border is regularly bowed ; the outer border is slightly exca- vated , the outer angle rounded ; the hind wings are well ...
Página 82
... apex of the fore wings . The males have the wings less broadly bordered with black than the females , and on the first median nervule of the hind wings there is a black scent - pouch . Egg . The egg is ovate conical , and is well ...
... apex of the fore wings . The males have the wings less broadly bordered with black than the females , and on the first median nervule of the hind wings there is a black scent - pouch . Egg . The egg is ovate conical , and is well ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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.