. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. SUBFAMILY SATYRINi€ (THE SATYRS). n : J " Aught unsavory or uncban Hath my insect never seen; But violets and bilberry bells, IMaple-sap and daffodils, Grass with green flag half-mast high, Succory to match the sky. Columbine with horn of honey. Scented fern and agrimony. Clover, catch-fly, adder's-tongue, And brier-roses dwelt ; Embrson. The butterflies belonging to this subfamily are, for the most part, of medium size, and are generally obscure in col
. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. SUBFAMILY SATYRINi€ (THE SATYRS). n : J " Aught unsavory or uncban Hath my insect never seen; But violets and bilberry bells, IMaple-sap and daffodils, Grass with green flag half-mast high, Succory to match the sky. Columbine with horn of honey. Scented fern and agrimony. Clover, catch-fly, adder's-tongue, And brier-roses dwelt ; Embrson. The butterflies belonging to this subfamily are, for the most part, of medium size, and are generally obscure in color, being of some shade of brown or gray, though a few species within our territory are brightly colored. Gaily colored species belonging to this subfamily are more numerous in the tropics of both hemi- spheres. The wings are very generally ornamented, especially upon the under side, by eye-like spots, dark, pupiled in the center with a point of lighter color, and ringed around with one or more light circles. They are possessed of a weak flight, flitting and dancing about among herbage, and often hiding among the weeds and grasses. Most of them are forest-loving insects, though a few inhabit the cold and bleak summits of mountains and grassy patches near the margins of streams in the far North, while some are found on the treeless prairies of the West. In the warmer regions of the Gulf States a few species are found which have the habit of flitting about the grass of the roadsides and in open spaces about houses. The veins of the fore wings are generally greatly swollen at the base, enabling them thus to be quickly distinguished from all other butterflies of this family. The eggs, so far as we have knowledge of them, are subspher- «97 :' S ! I 111 Hi]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Holla
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