Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . Fig. 107. 232 LEPIDOPTERA. etc., giving us an unfailing test of the difference in rank of thetwo suborders. In their habits and transformations, and in their externalanatomy, the Lep-idoptera vary lessthan other h e Lepidop-tera, while in theperfect state, canbe scarcely said towalk much, com-pared with beetlesFi=- 1G8- and other walking insects, the legs being only used to support them while at rest,and not for locomotion. They move al
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . Fig. 107. 232 LEPIDOPTERA. etc., giving us an unfailing test of the difference in rank of thetwo suborders. In their habits and transformations, and in their externalanatomy, the Lep-idoptera vary lessthan other h e Lepidop-tera, while in theperfect state, canbe scarcely said towalk much, com-pared with beetlesFi=- 1G8- and other walking insects, the legs being only used to support them while at rest,and not for locomotion. They move almost entirely by theirbroad wings, whichwith them are morehighly specializedthan in other in-sects. Their forewings are usuallytriangular in form,while. wings theirare hindsome-
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