. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. , l! !!'t| I Mil' SUBFAMILY HELICONIINyt (THE HELICONIANS) " Men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the ; Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act iii, sc. iii. Medium or large-sized butterflies, with the fore wings twice us long as they are broad; the hind wings relatively small and rounded upon the outer margin; without tails. The palpi are produced. The antennae, which are nearly as long as the body, are provided at the tip with a gr
. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. , l! !!'t| I Mil' SUBFAMILY HELICONIINyt (THE HELICONIANS) " Men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the ; Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act iii, sc. iii. Medium or large-sized butterflies, with the fore wings twice us long as they are broad; the hind wings relatively small and rounded upon the outer margin; without tails. The palpi are produced. The antennae, which are nearly as long as the body, are provided at the tip with a gradually tapering club, thicker and stouter than in the Ithomiinae, and are clothed with scales on the upper surface. The fore legs are very feebly developed in both sexes. The eggs are cylindrical, twice as high as wide, tapering rather abruptly toward the apex, which is truncated; they are ribbed longi- tudinally, with strongly developed cross- ridges, giving the egg a somewhat pitted appearance. The caterpillar, when emerg- ing from the egg, has the head somewhat larger than the body; each segment is clothed with hairs, which upon the first moult are replaced by branching spines. The caterpillar, when it reaches maturity, is provided with six branching spines on each segment. The chrysalis is very pecu- liar in shape, and is strongly angulated and covered with curious projections, which cause it to somewhat resemble a shriveled leaf. These butterflies are extremely numerous in the tropics of the New World, and are there represented by a number of genera which are rich in species. Most of them are very gaily colored, the preva- lent tints being black banded with yellow or crimson, sometimes marked with a brilliant blue luster. They are evidently very strongly protected. Belt, in his "Naturalist in Nicaragua," tells 9>. Fig. 84.—Neuration of the genus Heliconius. t I, !:('!'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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