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Title: A manual for the study of insects
Identifier: CUbiodiversity1226889-8579 (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. joint author
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: Ithaca, N. Y. , Comstock Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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364 THE STUDY OF INSECTS. die of each wing there is a pale band edged with zigzag, dark brown lines. The larva lives upon apple, cherry, oak, birch, maple, and ash. When full grown it measures two and one half inches in length and one half inch in breadth. The upper side is slate-gray, mottled with black, with two transverse scarlet. bands, one on the second and one on the third thoracic segments. There is a black spot at each end and in the middle of each of these bands. The larva is found during July and August. It is said that the cocoons are attached to limbs like those of Tolype; but the larvse of this species which we have bred made their cocoons between leaves, or in the folds of the muslin bag enclosing the limb upon which they were feeding. The species passes the winter in the pupa state; \F^% and the moth appears in v' June, when it lays its ^* eggs upon the leaves of 'V5 the trees it infests. Superfamily Hesperhna (Hes-per-i-i'na). The Skippers. The Skippers are so called on account of their peculiar mode of flight. They fly in the daytime and dart suddenly from place to place. When at rest most species hold the wings erect in a vertical position like butterflies; in some the fore wings are thus held while the hind wings are extend- Y.o.,,s.-.w.ng^oiEpargyreusmyrus. ^^ horizontally; and a few extend both pairs of wings horizontally. The antennae
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