. Animals of land and sea. Zoology; Insects; Zoology. 148 ANIMALS OF LAND AND SEA with features taken from the fossils. The great reptiles of the past are all extinct, on the land as well as in the sea. Passing now to insects we f^nd in South America the moth with the greatest spread of wing. This is the owl-moth or agrippina, with an expanse of ii inches. The Atlas moth of. Figs. 407-411. Four young Dragon-flies, and the adult of one of them. For explanations of the figures see p. xxiii. southeastern and southern Asia and the adjacent islands has much broader wings w^hich spread 10 inches in
. Animals of land and sea. Zoology; Insects; Zoology. 148 ANIMALS OF LAND AND SEA with features taken from the fossils. The great reptiles of the past are all extinct, on the land as well as in the sea. Passing now to insects we f^nd in South America the moth with the greatest spread of wing. This is the owl-moth or agrippina, with an expanse of ii inches. The Atlas moth of. Figs. 407-411. Four young Dragon-flies, and the adult of one of them. For explanations of the figures see p. xxiii. southeastern and southern Asia and the adjacent islands has much broader wings w^hich spread 10 inches in the largest I have measured, but probably sometimes more. Our largest moth in eastern North America is the common cecropia, reaching 71/2 inches in expanse; the equally common pclyphemus is not much smaller, reaching 61/2 inches. The broadest butterfly is Papilio antimaclms of western Africa, from 8 to 9 inches across the wings, but its wings are. 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 Clark, Austin Hobart, b. 1880. New York, D. Van Nostrand company
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