Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 670
ems to be, that has adhered to your fingerand thumb. If you had then examined the wing,you might have seen that a little rubbed spacewas visible where you had touched it. If youhad been so curious and so interested that youhad scraped a little of this dust from your finger,and had placed it under… … THE CURIOUSLY POINTED SCALES.Many kinds of scales show dainty veining. Lepidopterand moths) means scale-winged. (butterflies colors would have been beautiful and perhapsbrilliant; in the figure the delicate tints cannotbe reproduced with the black ink. This dust is now known to be composed oflittle…
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