This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...who watch chrysalids know how very certain they are to spring upon you in full-dress when your back is turned for a moment. Out of eleven Saturnia Ids which opened this spring, equally watched, not one was seen during the exit. It was perhaps an hour before his wings were entirely shaken out, but such perfect unfolding ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...who watch chrysalids know how very certain they are to spring upon you in full-dress when your back is turned for a moment. Out of eleven Saturnia Ids which opened this spring, equally watched, not one was seen during the exit. It was perhaps an hour before his wings were entirely shaken out, but such perfect unfolding, without wrinkle or seam, after such long and tight packing, is not seen from any traveller's trunk! XVIII. PHILAMPELUS ACHEMON. "/NLY honey-dew, and sweet manna! _J No more grape leaves for him!" Strange words to say bending over a large ungainly caterpillar, one would think, and yet I knew why he was hurriedly making his way out of sight in the box of earth on which I had not an hour before placed him, and why, as well, he had turned from the fresh leaf of grape I had just brought for his supper. No more grape leaves--done with coarse food and low grovelling life; no more crawling and creeping-Vine-loving Achemon. and half-blind existence. A long, quiet rest, out of all sound and sight, and then a fresh, bright awakening to soar and sip from the daintiest flower chalices, in the exquisite garb of the gentle Philampelus achemon. This I knew was before him, although I had failed the year before in an attempt to see him through these changes, farther than the chrysalis, which I had probably prevented reaching its perfect state by exposing it to the sunlight before I had learned that it should have darkness rather than light until the time of its winged awakening. It was on the first day of October ('81) that I spied him, at the close of a game of croquet we had been enjoying, slowly making his way down a fence-post, beneath the grape-vine. An odd enough, and not very prepossessinglooking fellow (Fig. 58), in his russet-brown FIG. 58....
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