. 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. vaeof the Satyridi are all shaped alike. The body is rather hairy,narrowed at each end, and the last segment is furnished withtwo hooks. The pupai are short and well set, and do not exhibitany of the strange-shaped projections which are common in thechrys
. 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. vaeof the Satyridi are all shaped alike. The body is rather hairy,narrowed at each end, and the last segment is furnished withtwo hooks. The pupai are short and well set, and do not exhibitany of the strange-shaped projections which are common in thechrysalides of the Nyii/phalidi. A pretty butterfly {Ar-o-c galathca), the Marbled White, israther common in the middle of summer in the whole of centraland northern Europe, and it is our commonest representative ofthe Satyridi. The caterpillar lives upon some of the simplestgrasses, and frequents the Timothy grass in England. The but-terfly has the very delicate antennae hardly swollen at their black and Vvhite ornamentation of the perfect insect is verydistinctive, and the accompanying plate shows the fusiform cater- 86 TKAASFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. pillars and a chrysalis, attended by a marbled white, upon the Compositae and by two others in different positions. X •- ~*\ nnx\ \ X^X:V^;^^~^^*««^Ns \\ \\\\ \?^ \ \\V^V\ ^. CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES OF Thccla IValbuni. The genus Ercbia has its species in abundance in mountainousdistricts. They are small butterflies, whose .black wings are THE 8/ ornamented with eye-shaped spots of fawn or red colour; andthese negroes, as they are termed, are found upon the Alps, thePyrenees, the Caucasus, the Hhiialayas, and even upon the RockyMountains. Some closely allied forms, belonging to the genusChionobas, are of a tawny or pale greyish yellow colour, and arefound in the remotest north of Europe, America, Iceland, Siberia,and Kamschatka, and one kind lives in the Alps. There are some Satyridi in South Americ
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