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 219
the cocoon ismade with the leaf on which it feeds drawnpartially or entirely about it, and this issecurely fastened to the tree stem or branchlet;but often upon so small a stem that this tightwinding does little toward the safety of thechrysalis. Many fall from the tree and areblown about, until,… … ATTACUS CYNTHIA: a, i:<;GS ; l>, l.AK\A ; C, CUCUUN ; d, CUKYSAUb, e, FEMALE MOTH (after Riley),178 ATTACUS CYNTHIA. 179 the chrysalids of a dark yellowish-brown, andin shape much like those of the Prometheus. The first of these cocoons gave up itsbeautiful imago on the 24th of April,…
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