. Scientific lectures. Science; Natural history; Archaeology. 54 ON PLANTS AND INSECTS. [lect. three points:—What do the eye-spots and the faint lateral line mean ? and why are some green, and some brown, offering thus such a marked contrast to the leaves of the Epildbium parvum, on which they feed ? Other Fig. 40.—Chmrocampa elpenor. First stage. questions will suggest themselves later. I must now call your attention to the fact that, when the caterpillars first quit the egg, and come into the world (Fig. 40), they are quite different in appearance,, being, like so many other. Fig. 41.—Chcuro
. Scientific lectures. Science; Natural history; Archaeology. 54 ON PLANTS AND INSECTS. [lect. three points:—What do the eye-spots and the faint lateral line mean ? and why are some green, and some brown, offering thus such a marked contrast to the leaves of the Epildbium parvum, on which they feed ? Other Fig. 40.—Chmrocampa elpenor. First stage. questions will suggest themselves later. I must now call your attention to the fact that, when the caterpillars first quit the egg, and come into the world (Fig. 40), they are quite different in appearance,, being, like so many other. Fig. 41.—Chcurocampa small caterpillars, bright green, and almost exactly the colour of the leaves on which they feed. That this colour is not a necessary or direct consequence of the food, we see from the case of quadrupeds, which, as I need scarcely. 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 Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913. London, New York, Macmillan and Co.
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