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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 63

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22 AMONG THE MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. door he came out of unlike the narrow door ofthe Asterias. Looking something like a saw-fly, and more like a wasp, it was a large ichneu-mon fly. The parent ichneumon, having stungthe caterpillar and deposited the ^^^, theichneumon was safe in his provided… … CHNEHMCJN FLY. pant, eating him up and then making his ownway into the world, leaving the chrysalisentirely empty, and quite whole, with theexception of the round door. His head andslender body, antennae, and six feet, are all anochre yellow. The eyes are large, jetty black,and oval-shaped, and…

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