. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. XYiMl'HAIJXAK: ASI'VAXAX. 285 hciiifT Diihlin (Fiixon), Siincook "two or throe" (TliMxtcr), nnd Milfonl, X. II., "c'oniinon" (Whitney). iindWillianititown. Mush., not rare ( Scnd- (ler). Mr. Lvniaii, wlio took Hpeeiniens al)OMi Portland. Me., whicli lie once considered astyanax, now looks on them as proserjiina. Stoir in first illustration of the liiitterHy reports it from Africa I OvipOBition. The eg
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. XYiMl'HAIJXAK: ASI'VAXAX. 285 hciiifT Diihlin (Fiixon), Siincook "two or throe" (TliMxtcr), nnd Milfonl, X. II., "c'oniinon" (Whitney). iindWillianititown. Mush., not rare ( Scnd- (ler). Mr. Lvniaii, wlio took Hpeeiniens al)OMi Portland. Me., whicli lie once considered astyanax, now looks on them as proserjiina. Stoir in first illustration of the liiitterHy reports it from Africa I OvipOBition. The eg>^s are laid on the upper surface of leaves at the very tip, after the manner of the jjenus. I am indebted for specimens tu Miss Guild and Messrs. Anj^us and Emery. Food plant- Tlie caterpillar is polypha<^ous. livinl)ot. Kirtland. Kdwards, Mundt, Jack), |)()plar (on which an enclosed female lay for me), and aspen (Kdwards). Habits of the caterpillar. AN'hilc feeding, it usts upon the upper surface of the leaf, eating the edges from the apex to the Idisc. invariably returning to the same spot at each meal until all is devoured excepting the hasal half of the midrii), when it passes to the adjoining leaf. .Vfter eating, the caterpillar â¢â a very peculiar posture, which the contour of the body renders still more grotesipic ; the anterior half of the body is strongly arche<l, the ujjper portion of the front of the head just toucliing the ground ; the thoracic horns are thus tlu'own menacingly for- ward and all the true legs and the anterior pair of prolegs are raised above the ground : nor is this all, for the hinder extremity is also raised, the prolegs of the sixth abdominal segment barely touching the ground, and the parts behind lifted high in the air and thiMist hoiMzontally backward, so that tiie tubercles of the eighth and ninth abdominal segments are i)rought on a level with the anterior liinich : while the anal [)rok'gs are so retracted K'd. i to 1)0 n
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