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 264
FIG. 98. XL. THE I)Fx:eptive moth. MORE like a very modest, trustworthyQuaker looks the richly mottled sil-very-gray moth A/>a^e/a Amer7ca7ia\\\\\c\-\ stolein upon me on Sabbath, April 20, 1890,from its plain gray parchment-like cocoon; … FIG. 99. SO stiff and hard an one, that in making hisexit the whole of the rich brown chrysalis in-side it was thrown out into the box beside theclinging moth. Still, demure, quiet, whyshould it be named Apatela—deceptive?223 224 AMONG THE MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. Because some entomologists are…
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