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Title: Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Step, Edward, 1855-1931
Subjects: Insects Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : R. M. McBride
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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haschanged its form and feeds externally. In the third cell the beetle-grub has grown to a large size, and is sucking the dwindled wasp-grub;finally, it has become a chrysalis. The male (left) and female beetlesare shown above the cells. About four times the natural size. 125 126 Marvels of Insect Life. representative of a numerous ,^enus of large and liandsome butterfliesthat inhabit the African and Indian regions. It measures about threeinches (from two and a half to three and a quarter) across the expandedwings. All the wings are brown in colour, with a kind of marginal bandof orange ; a row of six orange spots on the fore-wing, parallel to this band ; andfour small blue spots within the marginal band of the hind-wings, w^hich are edgedwith a narrow line of black outside the orange. The tails are also black. The underside shows a beautiful but complicated pattern of spots, bands, and streaks of grey,mnroon, brown, white, orange, and black. Tlic caterpillar is green and shagreened ;
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Photo 6y) Eggs of Snake-Fly. (C. B. W illiams, t .l:.S. A group of eggs of the spot ted-necked snake-fly, from nature, in dicayed wood of a tree stump. Enlarged to twenty-tbrcr times thenatural dimensions. the head lighter in tint, with four yellow, horn-like points, which are tipped withred. A line of yellow extends along each side from near the head to the hinderextremity. On the back are two orange rings. It feeds at night on the leaves ofthe so-called strawberry-tree,^ with which its colour harmonizes ; so also does thatof the chrysalis, which hangs from a twig and might be ovt>rlooked as a curledleaf. Its wing-cases are slightly tinged w^ith blue. The pasha is very rapid in its flight, and very thfluult to capture. It habituallyflies high, like the pur))le emperor, and like that royal buttfrllx chiefly comes 1 iVrbiiliis uiUdo.

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