The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 357
. -TOBTOISESHELL- ST[ N accordance with our promise we now turn for a time from]l( the subject of apparatus, and proceedto introduce the readerto our friends the butterflies at home in their native haunts.Now, what is a butterfly P This, on first thoughts, would wings in a horizontal position), but… … CATEEPILLAB, CHETSALIS, AND PERFECT INSECT—PEACOCK BUTTEBFLY. appear to be a very simple question to answer; but it is by nomeans so easily disposed of; for, unless the presence of certainspecifically-shaped plumules observable nnder the microscopeon the wings of the males be regarded as deciding…
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