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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 142

An illustration from Among the moths and butterflies : a revised and enlarged edition of "Insect lives ; or, Born in prison", 1891, leaf 142 — were alike. The first two dif-fered only in the tongue-case, one having thepitcher-handled case, as in the engraving,while the other had two short, straight cases,side by side. What may we not believe possible in trans-formation, when we see the forbidding to-mato worm, after a dark underground… … FIG. 55. CKRATO.MIA gUAUKICOKMS (lIAKKlS), XVII. CERATOMIA QUADRICORNIS (haRRIS). I HAVE dipped the bells of the lily of thevalley in sweetened water and put themin the box where my fine moth, Ccrato7iiiaquadricornis, may have a rich treat. But, asusual with these long-tongued moths, hescorns the…

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