British Butterflies: Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species, with an Account of Butterfly Development, Structure, Habits, Localities, Mode of Capture, and Preservation, Etc |
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abundant Adonis Agestis antennæ appears in July Argynnis Ashton Wolds band Bath White beautiful black eye-spots black spots Black-veined White border Brighton Brimstone Brimstone Butterfly British butterflies butterfly appears capture Cardamines caterpillar caterpillar is green centre chrysalis CLOUDED SULPHUR Clouded Yellow collector Common Blue creature creature's dark brown Dingy Skipper distinct distinguished district Edusa eggs entomological entomologist Epping eyes feeds female flight flower front wing Garden White genus GLANVILLE FRITILLARY greenish ground colour Hair-streak heaths hind wings insect Isle of Wight July and August Large Tortoiseshell localities magnified male marked Meadow Brown moths ORANGE-TIP painting pale PEARL-BORDERED places plants Plate XIV Polychloros Polyommatus pretty Purple Emperor Red Admiral reddish row of black Scotland seen sexes shape shown at fig silver spots Silver-washed Fritillary Skipper sometimes specimens stripes Swallow-tailed tawny tint upper side upper surface upper wing Vanessa white butterflies Wood