British Butterflies

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William S. Coleman. British Butterflies

British Butterflies

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. Introduction

CHAPTER I

Footnotes

CHAPTER II. The Imago

CHAPTER II

Footnotes

CHAPTER III. Butterfly Life

CHAPTER III

Footnotes

CHAPTER IV. How to catch a Butterfly

CHAPTER IV

Footnotes

CHAPTER V. How to kill a Butterfly

CHAPTER V

Footnotes

CHAPTER VI. The British Butterflies Separately Described

CHAPTER VI

REPUTED BRITISH SPECIES

Footnotes

Plates

PLATE I

PLATE II

PLATE III

PLATE IV

PLATE V

PLATE VI

PLATE VII

PLATE VIII

PLATE IX

PLATE X

PLATE XI

PLATE XII

PLATE XIII

PLATE XIV

PLATE XV

PLATE XVI

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William S. Coleman

Published by Good Press, 2021

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All those beautiful little butterflies called the Hair-streaks (fig. 9), the Blues (fig. 10), and the Coppers, have very short and fat caterpillars, that remind one forcibly of wood-lice—a shape shared also by that small butterfly with a big name, the Duke of Burgundy Fritillary (fig. 8), an insect very distinct from the Fritillaries above mentioned with thorny caterpillars.

The legs of a caterpillar are usually sixteen in number, and composed of two distinct kinds, viz. of six true legs, answering to those of the perfect insect, and placed on the foremost segments of the body; and of ten others, called "prolegs;" temporary legs, used principally for strengthening the creature's hold upon leaf or branch.

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