The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North AmericaDoubleday & McClure Company, 1898 - 382 páginas |
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... less fortunate American fellow . It is to meet this want on this side of the Atlantic that this volume has been written . Its aim is to guide the amateur collector in right paths and to pre- pare him by the intelligent accomplishment of ...
... less fortunate American fellow . It is to meet this want on this side of the Atlantic that this volume has been written . Its aim is to guide the amateur collector in right paths and to pre- pare him by the intelligent accomplishment of ...
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... less rigidity . Hardly any- thing in the range of insect life is more interesting than this rapid development of the butterfly after its first emergence from the chrysalis . The body is robbed of its liquid contents in a large degree ...
... less rigidity . Hardly any- thing in the range of insect life is more interesting than this rapid development of the butterfly after its first emergence from the chrysalis . The body is robbed of its liquid contents in a large degree ...
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... less oval in form , being somewhat flattened upon its upper surface . It is composed of three parts , or segments , closely united , which can only be dis- tinguished from one another by a careful dissection . segment is known as the ...
... less oval in form , being somewhat flattened upon its upper surface . It is composed of three parts , or segments , closely united , which can only be dis- tinguished from one another by a careful dissection . segment is known as the ...
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... less degree secured from observation and attack . Or they possess forms and colors which cause them to approximate in appear- ance other creatures , which for some reason are feared or disliked by animals which might prey upon them ...
... less degree secured from observation and attack . Or they possess forms and colors which cause them to approximate in appear- ance other creatures , which for some reason are feared or disliked by animals which might prey upon them ...
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... less than eighteen inches deep ; the ring should be not less than a foot in diameter . Such a net can be made at a cost of but a few cents , and will be , in most cases , as efficient as b с FIG . 44. - a , net ; b , ferrule to receive ...
... less than eighteen inches deep ; the ring should be not less than a foot in diameter . Such a net can be made at a cost of but a few cents , and will be , in most cases , as efficient as b с FIG . 44. - a , net ; b , ferrule to receive ...
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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.