. The book of butterflies, sphinges, and moths; illustrated by one hundred and forty-four engravings, coloured after nature. Lepidoptera. MISCELLANEOUS FACTS. 17.'} however, that moths, like many other nocturnal animals, are endowed with this curious power, to enable them to see their way clearly at a time when the vision of diurnal creatures is of little or no ; *. Variety of tho Peacock Butterfly. In the first edition of this work we gave the above figure of the Peacock Butterfly, and described its ordinary form, omitting to point out the peculiar- ities of its conformation. This
. The book of butterflies, sphinges, and moths; illustrated by one hundred and forty-four engravings, coloured after nature. Lepidoptera. MISCELLANEOUS FACTS. 17.'} however, that moths, like many other nocturnal animals, are endowed with this curious power, to enable them to see their way clearly at a time when the vision of diurnal creatures is of little or no ; *. Variety of tho Peacock Butterfly. In the first edition of this work we gave the above figure of the Peacock Butterfly, and described its ordinary form, omitting to point out the peculiar- ities of its conformation. This specimen was captured near Oxford in 1828, and is a curiously shaped variety. The supe- rior wings arc about a fourth larger than the inferior ones, in proportion to those of the ordinary speci- mens ; the whole insect being much more triangular in its general form, and the indentations on the margins of both upper and under wings considerably * Field Naturalist's Magazine, vol. i. p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862. London, Whittaker & Co. ; [etc. ,etc. ]
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