. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. The CUuiflcation of Butterflies The Lvc^NiDit, the "Gossamer-winged ; This great family comprises the butterflies which are familiarly known as the "hair-streaks," the "blues," and the "; The males have four and the females six walking feet. The cat- erpillars are small, short, and slug-shaped. The chrysalids are provided with a girdle, are attached at the end of the abdomen, and lie closely oppressed to the s
. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. The CUuiflcation of Butterflies The Lvc^NiDit, the "Gossamer-winged ; This great family comprises the butterflies which are familiarly known as the "hair-streaks," the "blues," and the "; The males have four and the females six walking feet. The cat- erpillars are small, short, and slug-shaped. The chrysalids are provided with a girdle, are attached at the end of the abdomen, and lie closely oppressed to the surface upon which they have undergone transformation. Blue is a very common color in this family, which includes some of the gayest of the small forms which are found in the butterfly world. In alighting they always carry toeir wings folded together and upright. The PAPiLioNiDit, the " Swallowtails " and their allies. These butterflies have six walking feet in both sexes. The cater- pillars are elongate, and in some genera provided with osmateria, or protrusive organs secreting a powerful and disagreeable odor. The chrysalids are elongate, attached at the anal extremity, and held in place by a girdle of silk, but not closely oppressed to the surface upon which they have undergone transformation. The Hesperiid/C, or the "; They are generally small in si^e, with stout bodies, very quick and powerful in flight. They have six walking feet in both sexes. The tibia of the hind feet, with few exceptions, have spurs. The caterpillars are cylindrical, smooth, tapering forward and back- ward from the middle, and generally having large globular heads. For the most part they undergo transformation into chrysalids which have a girdle and an anal hook, or cremaster, in a loose co- coon, composed of a few threads of silk, and thus approximate the moths in their habits. The genus Megathymus has the curious habit of burrowing in its larval stage in the underground s
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