. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. 374 THE STUDY OF INSECTS, UTx wings erect above the back when at rest. There are some moths that have clubbed antennae,and others that fly by day but no moth presents all three of the charac- teristics given above. It is more difficult to distinguish the but- terflies from the skip- pers : yet this can be easily done. In but- terflies the club of the antenna is bluntly rounded at the tip instead of being fur- nished with a re~ curved point as in most skippers; the abdomen is very slen- der ; and some of the branches of radius of the fore wings co«
. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. 374 THE STUDY OF INSECTS, UTx wings erect above the back when at rest. There are some moths that have clubbed antennae,and others that fly by day but no moth presents all three of the charac- teristics given above. It is more difficult to distinguish the but- terflies from the skip- pers : yet this can be easily done. In but- terflies the club of the antenna is bluntly rounded at the tip instead of being fur- nished with a re~ curved point as in most skippers; the abdomen is very slen- der ; and some of the branches of radius of the fore wings co« Fig. 455.—Wings of Basilarckia astyanax^ alcSCC bcVOUd the apex of the discal cell (Fig. 455). There are butterflies in which all of the branches of radius present arise from the discal cell ; but this is due to the fact that two of the branches coalesce to the edge of the wing, as is shown by the fact that in these butterflies radius has less than five branches. ^ This superfamily includes four famiHes, which can be separated as follows:— A. Cubitus of the fore wings apparently four-branched (Fig. 456). p. 375 PAPILIONIDiE. A A. Cubitus of the fore wings apparent!}' three-branched (Fig. 455). B. With six well-developed legs, although in some species the fore. 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 Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. joint author. Ithaca, N. Y. , Comstock Pub. Co.
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