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 boards border Brighton Brimstone BRIMSTONE BUTTERFLY British butterflies butterfly appears cabinet captured Cardamines caterpillar caterpillar is green centre chrysalis CLOUDED SULPHUR Clouded Yellow collector Common Blue creature creature's dark brown Dingy Skipper distinct distinguished district Ditto Edusa eggs entomological entomologist Epping eyes fcap feeds female flower front wing Garden White genus greenish ground colour Hair-streak heaths hind wings insect Isle of Wight July and August Large Tortoiseshell larvæ localities magnified male marked Meadow Brown moths orange pale PEARL-BORDERED places plants Plate XIV Polychloros Polyommatus pretty Purple Emperor reddish row of black Scotland seen sexes shape shown at fig Silver-washed Fritillary Skipper SMALL PEARL-BORDERED FRITILLARY sometimes species specimens stripes Swallow-tailed tawny tint upper side upper surface upper wing Vanessa white butterflies Wood
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Page 28 - Stothard learnt the art of combining colours by closely studying butterflies' wings: he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
Page 10 - It is impossible not to wonder, that an insect which executes them but once in its life, should execute them so well. We must necessarily conclude that it has been instructed by a GREAT MASTER ; for he who has rendered it necessary for the insect to undergo this change, has likewise given it all the requisite means for accomplishing it in safety...
Page 63 - Continental steamers, on their passage, for many hundreds of yards, while the insects strewed the decks in all directions. The flight reached England about twelve o'clock at noon, and dispersed themselves inland and along shore, darkening the air as they went. During the...