. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. There iiilglit'st tliou sing tliy sweet Creator's pniise, AnJ turn at quiet o'er soiiie lioly boots, Or time the accent of thy liarniless lays Unto the nuirinur of the gentle brook, Whiles roundabout thy greedy eye doth lool., Observing wonders inso'me tlower'by, This bent, tliat leaf, this worm, that butterfly. Peaciiam.âif«)V( mihi ct silcnlitnn. CoNSiDKUiNO mimicry in butterflies, we pointed out that it was not the least among the st
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. There iiilglit'st tliou sing tliy sweet Creator's pniise, AnJ turn at quiet o'er soiiie lioly boots, Or time the accent of thy liarniless lays Unto the nuirinur of the gentle brook, Whiles roundabout thy greedy eye doth lool., Observing wonders inso'me tlower'by, This bent, tliat leaf, this worm, that butterfly. Peaciiam.âif«)V( mihi ct silcnlitnn. CoNSiDKUiNO mimicry in butterflies, we pointed out that it was not the least among the strange elements of that phenomenon tliat these extraordi- nary departures from a normal type should be gained jjiu-ely for protection during tlie final days of a life, the earlier periods of which were subject to far sreater dangers than the later. When, however, we come to examine the earlier stages themselves, though we siiall find, as far as I am aware, no cases of parastatic mimicry, we do find that protective colors and markings, if not striking, are at least very general; so general, indeed, that it might be (juestioned whether there exists a single one of the caterpillars of our butterflies whose markings do not serve in some special way for its protection. Lubbock and Weismann have pointed out that caterpillars of Lepidop- tera generally are green in their earliest stage. This, however, is not universally true. Within the narrow scope of our own butterflies we have many instances in which this is not the case. The caterpillar of Oeneis macouni is even brilliantly striped ; those of nearly all species of Papilioninae are almost black with a white saddle, and there are many others, likeEurymue and Basilarchia, which, though having certainly a green tinge, are never- theless so obscured by other colors as to have a dusky effect which is at most only greenish. But the fact remains that as a very general rule, caterpil- lars of butterflies as well as of moths are when hatc
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