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. 1871 Excerpt: ...first moult they lose their black heads and assumegreen ones; they hybernate early, and are full fed by the end of the following March, when they rest in a perfectly straight position on a blade of grass. The head is subglobose, wider than the second segment, and scabrous, the raised points which cause the scabrosity ...
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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. 1871 Excerpt: ...first moult they lose their black heads and assumegreen ones; they hybernate early, and are full fed by the end of the following March, when they rest in a perfectly straight position on a blade of grass. The head is subglobose, wider than the second segment, and scabrous, the raised points which cause the scabrosity emitting small but rigid bristles: the body is slightly shuttleshaped, the attenuation being more manifest towards the anal extremity; the incisions of the segments are deeply and conspicuously marked; the segments are again transversely wrinkled or divided into narrow sections; the entire surface is slightly scabrous, and covered with very minute but stiff bristles; the anal extremity is produced into two parallel points directed backwards. The colour of the head and body is either dull olive green or dull pale umber brown; in either case the body has three compound or triple stripes; one of these is dorsal, and is composed of a medio-dorsal dark smokecoloured stripe, and two yellowish or whitish marginal stripes, the dark medio-dorsal stripe being in some specimens again divided by a very narrow and indistinct white stripe; this median compound stripe terminates with the twelfth segment; the other compound stripes are lateral, composed of the same colours, and terminating in the anal points. Early in April the caterpillar spins a slight silken covering on a stalk, stem, or blade of grass, and, suspending itself therefrom by the anal claspers, is changed to an obese ChrySalis, with the head broadly notched; the thorax, wing-cases, and body are gibbose, and suspended in an oblique position by numerous small hooks at the anal extremity: the skin of the caterpillar always remains attached to the anal extremity, even after the butterfly has escape...
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