. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. drop down, holding on by a silken thread, and they make THE GE0ME7R1XA. their cocoon when they have attained their full growth with alittle silk, and place it under the leaves. The moths fly in the. THE CATERPILLARS AND MOTHS OF Abraxas grossitlariata. mo
. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. drop down, holding on by a silken thread, and they make THE GE0ME7R1XA. their cocoon when they have attained their full growth with alittle silk, and place it under the leaves. The moths fly in the. THE CATERPILLARS AND MOTHS OF Abraxas grossitlariata. month of July, and frequent hedges, gooseberry bushes, andgardens, where they delight, like butterflies, in the open sun- 136 7-A:^,VSF0y^A/.lT/0iVS OF ixsEcrs. shine; in fact, they resemble them very much, and their tintsare very vivid and pretty. The engraving shows one of thespecies of the Zcrcuidcc (the Large Magpie) in the moth stateand as a caterpillar. There are some moths closely allied tothem—but which have stouter bodies and a great dislike ofsunshine—whose caterpillars grow to a great size, and are verygeometric in their method of walking. PJialceiia bctitlaria hasa caterpillar which is of a green or brown colour, and iscovered with little wart-like growths. It goes into the earth,makes an oval-shaped resting place, and is transformed into achrysalis during the month of September. The moth flies in themonth of May, or early in June in the following year, and somespecimens measure nearly two inches across the wings. I
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