. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. PhM h 7. Kdward,-\ [OI„t„ BATH WHITE BUTTERFLY Common or the of Europe well worth noting". The female is consider- ably larger than the male, but in the coloured figure the former has been reduced, owing to the exigencies of space. Mr. A. R. Wallace writes as follows of the capture of the first specimen : — "One day about the beginning of January, I found a beautiful shrub with large white leafy bracts and yellow flowers, a species of Mus- sEenda, and saw one of th
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. PhM h 7. Kdward,-\ [OI„t„ BATH WHITE BUTTERFLY Common or the of Europe well worth noting". The female is consider- ably larger than the male, but in the coloured figure the former has been reduced, owing to the exigencies of space. Mr. A. R. Wallace writes as follows of the capture of the first specimen : — "One day about the beginning of January, I found a beautiful shrub with large white leafy bracts and yellow flowers, a species of Mus- sEenda, and saw one of these noble insects hovering over it, but it was too quick for me, and flew awa_\-. The next day I went again to the same shrub and succeeded in catching a female, and the day after a fine male. I found it to be as I had expected, a perfectly new and most magnificent species, and one of the most gorgeously coloured butterflies in the world. Fine specimens of the male are more than seven inches across the wings, which are velvety black and fiery orange, the latter colour replacing the green of the allied species. The beauty and brilliancy of this insect are indescrib- able, and none but a naturalist can understand the intense excitement I experienced when I at length captured it. On taking it out of my net and open- ing the glorious wings, my heart began to beat violently, the blood rushed to my head, and I felt much more like fainting than I have done when in apprehension of immediate death. I had a headache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement produced by what will appear to most people a very inadequate ; The Skippers, the last family of butterflies, are comparatively stout-bodied insects, with the antenna; widely apart at the base, and sometimes forked at the. 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
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