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. 1901 Excerpt: ...matter because the moth is wet and heavy; but at last a place of support is found, and the moth hangs heavily from it (Figs. 151, 152, and 153). It is no longer a prisoner in its snug Fio. 183.--Polyphemus mnth (female) ten minutes after leaving cocoon. Getting stronger! Natural size. Photographed from life. silken ...
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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. 1901 Excerpt: ...matter because the moth is wet and heavy; but at last a place of support is found, and the moth hangs heavily from it (Figs. 151, 152, and 153). It is no longer a prisoner in its snug Fio. 183.--Polyphemus mnth (female) ten minutes after leaving cocoon. Getting stronger! Natural size. Photographed from life. silken house as it has been for nine long months. It is free; it is full of life. The blood courses out into the antennae, out into the wings; the wings expand, stretch out in length and breadth: the colors are revealed, the pattern is unfolded. In about an hour the moth is in its perfection, though the wings are not yet dry enough or strong enough to be used in flight. The Polyphemus moth measures five or six inches across the wings. Its foundation color is light or dark ochre yellow, usually with a distinct pink tinge. The wings have at their centers yellow-bordered, windowlike spots, which are made more conspicuous on the hind wings by deep borders of black flecked with bine. The other markings of the wings are in shades of brown, gray, and pink, and are as shown in Figs. 148 and 154. The transparent spots of the wings are likely to be smaller in the male than in the female, whereas the feather-like antenna? are very broad in the male and narrow in the female. (Compare Figs. 151 and 153.) The wings are held extended horizontally while the moth is in resting position. The Polyphemus, like most moths, is a night-flier, and so, although common, is seldom or never seen in the woods. Its resemblance t.. i.r.-w. Fto. 154.--Polyphemus (male) in resting position; under surface. Unopened cocoon anil cocoon from which this moth came, at right.: natural size. Photographed from life. leaves hulps to hide it from us. The Polyphemus usually lays its three hundred e..
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