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 150
and not at allvain, as he takes no pains to show his chiefbeauty, the exquisitely colored hinder wings,which are almost entirely covered by the frontones. Thus far he has not been seen to uncoilhis tongue, though tempted by sugared wateron moss and flowers, and, last and chiefest, bya leaf-cluster… … XIX. THE FOX-FACED MOTH. [ADONETA SPINULOIDES].
Butterflies -- Juvenile literature · Moths -- Juvenile literature
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