 | Great Britain - 1877 - 938 pages
...foliage. The tiger, walking horizontally on the ground, has transverse bars; the caterpillar, clinging to the grass in a vertical position, has longitudinal lines, while those which live on large veined leaves have oblique lines like the oblique ribs of the leaves. Thus, then, I think, we... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1879 - 316 pages
...grass-frequenting caterpillars have longitudinal lines, corresponding with those of the herbage around ; while " those which live on large-veined leaves have...oblique lines, like the oblique ribs of the leaves." The jungle cats, too, such as the tiger, have perpendicular stripes, "rendering them very difficult... | |
 | Grant Allen - Art - 1879 - 308 pages
...grass-frequenting caterpillars' have longitudinal lines, corresponding with those of the herbage around; while "those which live on large-veined leaves have...oblique lines, like the oblique ribs of the leaves." The jungle cats, too, such as the tiger, have perpendicular stripes, "rendering them very difficult... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Archaeology - 1879 - 220 pages
...foliage, The tiger, walking horizontally on the ground, has transverse bars ; the caterpillar, clinging to the grass in a vertical position, has longitudinal lines ; while those which live on large- veined leaves have oblique lines, like the oblique ribs of the leaves. It might, however, be... | |
 | John Lubbock (1st baron Avebury.) - Natural history - 1882 - 244 pages
...foliage. The tiger, walking horizontally on the ground, has transverse bars ; the caterpillar, clinging to the grass in a vertical position, has longitudinal...oblique lines, like the oblique ribs of the leaves. 5. It might, however, be suggested that the cases given above are exceptional. I have, therefore, in... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 852 pages
...foliage. The tiger, walking horizontally on the ground, has transverse bars ; the caterpillar, clinging to the grass in a vertical position, has longitudinal lines, while those which live on large veined GREEN PASTURES AND PICCADILLY. leaves have oblique lines like the oblique •ribs of the... | |
 | 1877 - 936 pages
...foliage. The tiger, walking horizontally on the ground, has transverse bars ; the caterpillar, clinging to the grass in a vertical position, has longitudinal lines, while those which live on large veined leaves have oblique lines like the oblique ribs of the leaves. Thus, then, I think, we... | |
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... caterpillars are either longitudinal or oblique. This, however, so far from constituting a real difference, confirms the explanation, because in each case the direction of the lines follows those of the foliage. The tiger, walking horizontally on... 