. The book of butterflies, sphinges, and moths; illustrated by one hundred and forty-four engravings, coloured after nature. Lepidoptera. 01' PAPILIONACEOUS INSECTS. i:> Professoi- Rennie mentions having picked up some specimens of the Gipsy Moth in the Netherlands, and enclosed them in chip boxes. On opening one of these some time afterwards, he found that one of the moths had deposited her eggs; but, owing to the situation not being favourable, they were laid in the fonn of a wheel, of which her body was the radius, as represented in the following figure:. mm The rim of this wheel was abo
. The book of butterflies, sphinges, and moths; illustrated by one hundred and forty-four engravings, coloured after nature. Lepidoptera. 01' PAPILIONACEOUS INSECTS. i:> Professoi- Rennie mentions having picked up some specimens of the Gipsy Moth in the Netherlands, and enclosed them in chip boxes. On opening one of these some time afterwards, he found that one of the moths had deposited her eggs; but, owing to the situation not being favourable, they were laid in the fonn of a wheel, of which her body was the radius, as represented in the following figure:. mm The rim of this wheel was about a quarter of an inch broad, and regularly sloped like a candle shade, and had down laid nil around it in an imbricated manner. Another of these captives, although in a box of the same size as the other, instead of fonning a wheel, laid the eggs in a conical foi-m, like a little mound. The Professor conceives that this form might have been assumed in consequence of the moth, in all probability, having laid part of the eggs before being captured, as it did not contain above a sixth of the number which the other deposited. The same general slope was, however, preserved, and it was as regularly thatched as the other, as represented in the following figure:. 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 Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862. London, Whittaker & Co. ; [etc. ,etc. ]
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