. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. AROivIATlC BUTTERFLIES. 1047 EXCURSUS XL.âAROMATIC BUTTERFLIES. With merry lieiirl, whose flushes rise Like s|)len("loiir-\viii^'(5(l liuttertlies From huiiey'il heiirts of (lowers in JIny. âlinbe Christabel. Its rnfmciit was the thousunil dyes Of flowers in the heavenly piiriulise. lloao.âThe poetic mirror. Fritz Muller, a naturalist who has done much by his roGoarches in various fields to bring new evidence in supp
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. AROivIATlC BUTTERFLIES. 1047 EXCURSUS XL.âAROMATIC BUTTERFLIES. With merry lieiirl, whose flushes rise Like s|)len("loiir-\viii^'(5(l liuttertlies From huiiey'il heiirts of (lowers in JIny. âlinbe Christabel. Its rnfmciit was the thousunil dyes Of flowers in the heavenly piiriulise. lloao.âThe poetic mirror. Fritz Muller, a naturalist who has done much by his roGoarches in various fields to bring new evidence in support of Darwin's theory, aston- ished the entomological world about ten years ago with a long list of odors emitted by butterflies and moths. It had been known for a long time that certain butterflies had peculiar odors, but no one imagined the extent and variety of this peculiarity. And indeed this is not altogether strange, since the cases known up to the present time are largely drawn from tropical butterflies, and the odor is always lost ai'ter death, and in many cases is exceedingly faint and fleeting. The study of the apparatus through which the odors are emitted shows that three classes of organs are involved in their production, and the variation in intensity of odor in different creatures leads to the very reasonable belief that the identical organs found in an immense nimiber of butterflies where we can ])erccive no odor, are also scent ^producers, even though their odors may be too etherciil for human senses. The odors produced by butterflies arc very largely confined to the male sex, evidently for the delectation of their mates, and the organs through which they are produced may be divided into three classes : extensible glands, situated upon the abdomen ; tufts or pencils of hairs, found upon various parts of the body, even including the legs and wings ; and scales or sciile-clusters, confined entirely to the wings. In the first class, that of extensible glands,
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