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Among the moths and butterflies : a revised and enlarged edition of "Insect lives ; or, Born in prison" (1891)

Ballard, Julia P. (Julia Perkins) · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 132

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THE SA TURN I A 10. 91 among the box of specimens in the fall. On thethird of March the single cocoon opened, and amale Saturnia lo appeared (Fig. 51). It is of adeep Indian yellow, with the four wings oblique-ly marked with purplish red, and a number ofspots on each, close together, near the… … FIG. 50. FKMALE lO. letters than any thing else. His mate is muchdarker, with less of the yellow and more of thebrown and purple. Instead of the letters AH, there is a three-scalloped spot of rich, deepbrown, edged with gray. The head is a richsnuff-brown, very velvety, and the handsome,velvety…

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