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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 228

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butterflies. Anotherbutterfly-collector says that in Georgia halfthe females of the Turnus are black. In all that I have seen, the male and femaleTurnus butterflies are yellow and black andvery much alike in their appearance. Why there should be this curious change ofcolor in those of the Southern… … XXXIV. THE BEECH-NUT BOX. [lIMACODES SCAPHA.] {For illustration, see />re/ace.) IT is said by Harris, in his EntomologicalCorrespondence, of that most singulargenus of moths, the Limacodes, that theyremain a long time in their cocoons, or inearth, before turning to pupaj. To this factthe student…

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