The colours of animals : their meaning and use, especially considered in the case of insects (1890)
Poulton, Edward Bagnall, Sir, 1856-1943 · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 173
ssed for food, and are obliged to search for it with extreme care. I have also shown that the cocoon of the Green Silver Lines Moth {Halias prasinana) can be modified in colour like thai of the Small Eggar.^ This species also passes the winter in the chrysalis state, when the brown colour is highly… … Lines Moth (H. pi^asinana) ui)Qn Fig. 37.— The brown cocoon of an oak leaf ; natural size. Green Silver Lines spun upon an oak leaf. spun a white cocoon (see fig. 36). The brown cocoon of the same species is shown in fig. 37. Eemembering the experiments upon the Small Tortoiseshell, it is very…
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