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 241
ight look at it carefully and thinkit a perfect, unbroken chrysalis. Besides thesix flanges described, there were also sixminiature ones, which scarcely showed besidethe longer curved ones, but which, like them,fell off, and were, in part, at least, attached tothe little brown cocoon. Just twelve… … XXXVI. THE SMARTWEED CATERPILLAR. ON the 25th of May, 1878, a bright-col-ored caterpillar, which I had found onthe smartweed, made a cocoon. It was verythin, and of an almost glass-like material, ex-cept that the top was ornamented by fifteen ortwenty of the little knobs of the pink blossomson…
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