. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects -- Ontario Periodicals. 190S ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 25. side had been broken off. You give it a poke, and it swerves ; and some small feet are protruded ; and you perceive that it is a living moth (Calocampa curvirnacula, Morris) And once more, you notice a seeming patch of lichen on a birch-tree. You approach to examine it ; when suddenly, from beneath the deceptive fore-wings, a pair of gorgeous scarlet secondaries are display- ed ; and the creature flies off to a place of security It is Catucala parta Guen. Fig. 8. How
. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects -- Ontario Periodicals. 190S ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 25. side had been broken off. You give it a poke, and it swerves ; and some small feet are protruded ; and you perceive that it is a living moth (Calocampa curvirnacula, Morris) And once more, you notice a seeming patch of lichen on a birch-tree. You approach to examine it ; when suddenly, from beneath the deceptive fore-wings, a pair of gorgeous scarlet secondaries are display- ed ; and the creature flies off to a place of security It is Catucala parta Guen. Fig. 8. How rapid the nervous ac- tion-how great the muscular force, that can carry the frog- hopper out of reach, that can J'^iS- 8- Oatocala parta (Red Underwing Moth). display, and set in motion, so effectively, the ample wings of the moth ! There is a beetle {Limnlodes paradoxus, Matth.) so small that it looks like the dot that we place over the letter i ; yet it is gifted with nervous and muscular forces according to its need ; and we can— " trace in nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine, Contrivance intricate, express'd with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees. The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty vvork, who speaks and it is done. The invisible in things scarce seen reveal'd. To 'vhom an atom is an ample ; * In the progression of catt rpillais a remarkable phenomenon may be witnessed. If a semi- translucent caterpillar be placed, when in motion, against the light—as upon a window pane— there will be observed a backward muscular action, within the body, which takes the appear- ance of a succession of wavelets passing from segment to segment, from the head to the farther extremity. It is owing to from ganglion to ganglion the muscles that set the the real advance — the forward movement. Fig. 9. lulus multistriatus. the nerve power passi
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