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The microscope and its revelations (1891)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 986

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and most interesting held. In tig. 687 wegive a group of eggs, all but the central form being eggs of organismsof this order. It is thus with the eggs of many insects ; they areobjects of great beauty, on account of the regularity of their formand the symmetry of the markings on their surface (fig.… … Fig. 688.—Eggs of butterflies and moths. which are found covering large patches of the leaves of that plant)being as remarkable as any. Those of the puss-moth (Ceryravinula), the privet hawk-moth (Sphinx Ugustri^ the small tortoise-shell butterfly ( Vanessa urticce), the meadow-brown butterfly…

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