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. 1896 Excerpt: ... the outer third of the costa, crosses the wings to the outer fourth of the hind margin, forming an obtuse angle in the middle of its course; an oblique leaden streak in the apical portion of the subterminal space. Terminal line-black above, followed by three black dots below. Fringes silvery gray. Hind wings pale gray ...
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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. 1896 Excerpt: ... the outer third of the costa, crosses the wings to the outer fourth of the hind margin, forming an obtuse angle in the middle of its course; an oblique leaden streak in the apical portion of the subterminal space. Terminal line-black above, followed by three black dots below. Fringes silvery gray. Hind wings pale gray to dark gray, with a darker terminal line not reaching the anal angle; fringes whitish. (Fig. 1, /.) Habitat.--Maine, Massachusetts, New York, California, Europe. Food, grass, cranberry, sheep-sorrel. "Egg.--When first laid, pellucid white, obovate, broadly rounded at both extremities, but slightly more so at base than at summit; broadest barely below the middle, 0.36 mm. high and 0.3 mm. broad, with about twenty-three straight and vertical ribs of slight elevation reaching to the dome of the summit, their interspaces crossed by finer, horizontal, raised cross-lines, which traverse also the vertical ribs, giving them a beaded appearance, the surface thus broken up into quadrangular cells whose length (the width Fig. 1.--Orambua hortuellus: a, egg, with summit ranch enlarged; 6, mature larva; c, one of the abdominal segments of larva; d, pnpa; e, neat of young larva: In grasa; /, Imago--all enlarged.--From " Insect Life." of the interspaces between the ribs) in the middle of the egg is 0.04 mm., and whose height is scarcely 0.02 mm., the surface itself very delicately shagreened. On the dome of the summit the surface is broken into polygonal cells which are about 0.04 mm. in diameter below, and grow smaller toward the apex." (Fig. 1, a.) (Scudder.) "Larva, First Stage.--Head diameter, 0.2 mm.; body diameter, 0.125 mm.; length, 0.99 mm. General color a smutty white; head a little darker than the rest of the body. Scatter...
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Good. First edition, 1896. Cloth-backed boards, illustrated with plates at the rear (including 6 in color! ), 81 pp., clean unmarked text, Good copy, marker to one of the early blank pages, soiling and age-toning to the pages and the page-edges, creasing and light tearing to the edges of some of the pages, wear to the edges of the book's covers including some rubbing or loss along the edges, no dust jacket.
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Good+ Ex-Lib. Clean blue paper covered boards with black lettering. Grey cloth spine. Text tight, clean and intact. Illustrated with color & B/W plates. Internal hinge with paper tear, covers firmly attached. Spine with cloth tear and lightly rubbed ends. Library number on spine. Book-plate inside front cover. Science, Insects, Crambidae; Ex-Library; Color & B/W Plates; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 90 pages.