. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. 1326 TllE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. '' tm. ill'"' Riley tells me tliat he once heard complaint of this butterfly in Illinois from ladies wlio cliargud it with destroying their Verbenas. "They get their tongue into the flower, and in retiring pull away flower and all, thus marring and destroying ; Mr. Henry Edwards bus observed this butterfly at the electric light. When at rest, the antennae diverge at an angle of ab
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. 1326 TllE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. '' tm. ill'"' Riley tells me tliat he once heard complaint of this butterfly in Illinois from ladies wlio cliargud it with destroying their Verbenas. "They get their tongue into the flower, and in retiring pull away flower and all, thus marring and destroying ; Mr. Henry Edwards bus observed this butterfly at the electric light. When at rest, the antennae diverge at an angle of about 65°, but the clubs are parallel and the stalks also are parallel at their very base ; viewed from the side the antennae curve very slightly throughout the whole length of the stalk, the general direction being forward; the club is gracefully but strongly curved upward at nearly right angles. When at complete rest, the fore legs—at least those of the male—are bent and appressed to the body, the tarsi being pendant and the claws nearly touching the ground. Mr. W. H. Edwards exposed a chrysalis of this buttei-fly to extreme cold for fifteen days, but it gave the butterfly "; Enemies. Walking one day through a shadowed road where a single example of this butterfly was coursing back and forth, turning always as it met me, I noticed after a short time that it did not return after one of its periodic excursions ; and soon the reason was evident, for I came to its four uninjured wings lying in the damp rut; a bird had snatched it as it passed, l)itten off the uneatable wings, and devoured the body. Tiic caterpillar is attacked by Trogus exesorius (88:3), an Ichneumon which attacks nearly all the Papilioninao described in this work, sang- ing the caterpillar ; the grub changes to pupa after the caterpillar has be- come a chrysalis and tlic perfect insect eats its way out of a circular hole with a ragged edge in the side of the chrysalis in the middle of one
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