Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals
Recent advances in the arts make it possible to illustrate books at much less cost than formerly. An important invention is the process of printing in three colors from half-tone plates. The author of this manual was one of the first to use this process in illustrating a work...
Recent advances in the arts make it possible to illustrate books at much less cost than formerly. An important invention is the process of printing in three colors from half-ton...
2. Part 2Butterflies take their nourishment in fluid form, principally from the cups which Flora provides. The organ of ingestion is the proboscis, which communicates with a bulb-like re...
3. Part 3The collector having provided himself with a net for capturing insects must also provide himself with one or more collecting jars. It is well to have several of these of a size...
4. Part 4In recent years an ingenious friend of mine has devised a system of mounting butterflies under glass in cases made of a shell of plaster of paris, which he backs with cardboard...
5. Part 5Abundant in southern California, according to W. G. Wright, preferring plains, and being confined mainly to the little hot valleys which traverse them. According to the same aut...
6. Part 6The _butterflies_ of this are like those of the last genus in the structure of their wings, except that the hind wings are not angulate, and below the hind wings are generally m...
7. Part 7Medium or moderately large-sized butterflies. Costal and subcostal fused near base; cells of both wings closed. Upper side of wings curiously marked with checkered spots, genera...
8. Part 8This is a great family of small or rather less than medium-sized butterflies, which is found in both the eastern and western hemispheres, but is mostly confined to the American...
9. Part 9On the upper side the wings of the male are pale shining blue with a narrow black border; of the female darker blue broadly margined with dusky. On the under side in both sexes...
10. Part 10Allied to the three following species, but may be told apart at once by the solid black outer borders of the wings and the absence of the black band on the hind margin of the fo...
11. Part 11Ranges north of the boundary between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, descending into the United States as far south as Colorado and northern California upon the hi...
12. Part 12Lycæna, genus, 162; acmon, 168; ammon, 168; amyntula, 166; aster, 163; comyntas, 166; couperi, 163; exilis, 167; heteronea, 169; isophthalma, 167; lucia, 165; lygdamus, 169; mar...
13. Part 13Pg 9: “TEE PLACE OF” replaced with “THE PLACE OF” Pg 48: Positions of “e” and “f” labels were reversed Pg 91: “minature” replaced with “miniature” Pg 151: Duplicate “its” remove...