Foreign Butterflies

_N. Etheocles_ is a native of Africa, and is found chiefly on the coast of Guinea. It is nearly of the size of _C. Jasius_; the surface greenish-black, with a broad white band r...

The genus Helicopis was proposed by Fabricius in his _Systema Glossatarum_, and he refers to the species above mentioned as one of its typical forms. Although its characters are...

The caterpillar lives on the _Aristolochia pistolochia_. Sometimes the colour is reddish-yellow, at other times brown or dull yellowish-green, with numerous rows of black lines...

This delicate and handsome species is much the smallest, the expansion of the wings not being quite four inches. The ground colour is dusky white, with two remote rows of rounde...

The female is considerably larger, frequently measuring nearly eight inches between the tips of the wings. The prevailing colour is dark brown, deepening towards the extremities...

These insects were, no doubt, the first that attracted the attention of naturalists, in consequence of their imposing appearance and striking metamorphoses. Collections of them...

A new direction was thus given to his studies, for zoology as a science had hitherto occupied but little of his regard. Indeed, the only knowledge of this subject which he posse...

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Such are the principal subjects to which Lamarck’s attention was directed, together with some of the results to which his investigations led him. After his establishment in the...

With opinions having such a decided tendency to materialism, it is not surprising that Lamarck seldom makes allusion to a Deity, and when he does so, he nearly confines himself...

Although the butterfly seems to occur so frequently, we are not aware that the caterpillar has been noticed by any competent observer since the time of Madam Merian, at least no...