The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 294
captures on thespot; time may be an object, and the insects plentiful, and ofsuch kinds as will remain perfectly quiet in pill-boxes or chip-boxes. Here we may as well say that all the butterflies, withthe exception of the Wood Lady (Leucophasia sinapis)—whichbatters the tips of its wings when thus… … ELEPHANT HAWK MOTH. treatment. It is, on the other hand, always dangerous to boxany of the larger Hawk Moths or Bombyces, partly onaccount of their fluttering, and partly owing to their habits ofshamming death, and thus rolling about, to their detriment;though the little Clearwings (Scsiidce) may…
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