. Butterfly and moth book [microform] : personal studies and observations of the more familiar species. Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons nocturnes; Moths. —iinIII h»» ready to fly A (ATKRI'IM^AII Wnn WK.\PONS OF DEFKNrR a bright <ttn«r).y«.||„w in color, had juNtemerf?. ed. By the time he had a twig, and l»«*fore hij* wings were entirely " unfurled," we fumed thecamera U|)on him and continued to photograph him until he was ready to fly, Thefemaleswere some- what larger than th- male and entirely dif- * ferent in color, being. )f a soft reddish-brown; they had the bi
. Butterfly and moth book [microform] : personal studies and observations of the more familiar species. Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons nocturnes; Moths. —iinIII h»» ready to fly A (ATKRI'IM^AII Wnn WK.\PONS OF DEFKNrR a bright <ttn«r).y«.||„w in color, had juNtemerf?. ed. By the time he had a twig, and l»«*fore hij* wings were entirely " unfurled," we fumed thecamera U|)on him and continued to photograph him until he was ready to fly, Thefemaleswere some- what larger than th- male and entirely dif- * ferent in color, being. )f a soft reddish-brown; they had the big eye-spots or. ih,- on the fiffeenth. and on the -enty-first her eggs were a deep yellow with a dark spot in each; later, I learned that thv black head of the larva is responsi- ble for this spot. The eggs grew dark before hat- ching, because the yellow-brown bodies of the cat- erpillars showed Th«f-„ . , through thetrans- The f«^« we., Uncer «.d «. diffe«„t in color parent shdls 61. 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 Robertson-Miller, Ellen, 1859-1937. Toronto : McClelland & Goodchild
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