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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 224

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-winged specimens brought meby a little boy hired to secure the prize formy collection. However, a broken-winged butterfly,is betterthan none, and studying from these, their mar-vellous beauty made me but too glad to learnthat the caterpillar lived chiefly upon the tulip-tree leaves, although it… … l84 AMOAG 7///-; MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. through the upper boughs, (and often aboveall the boughs) of the tallest tulip-trees on thebanks of the Delaware. Now for a search athome. Looking carefully among the lowerleaves of the tulip, no Q.^g was to be seen ;(it needs a trained eye to see a small ^^g…

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