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Updated: May 3, 2025
Since the publication of "A Girl of the Limberlost" , I have received hundreds of letters asking me to write of my experiences with the lepidoptera of the swamp. This book professes to be nothing more. Because so many enemies prey upon the large night moths in all stages, they are nowhere sufficiently numerous to be pests, or common enough to be given local names, as have the birds.
If these gentlemen are wise they will discuss, when they meet, the weather, or the Death Duties, or some other extraneous subject, and leave their respective hobbies in the stable. Never mind what your hobby is books, prints, drawings, china, scarabaei, lepidoptera keep it to yourself and for those like-minded with you.
He quotes, also, Guenee, that Setina produces a sound like the ticking of a watch, apparently by the aid of "two large tympaniform vesicles, situated in the pectoral region"; and these "are much more developed in the male than in the female." Hence the sound-producing organs in the Lepidoptera appear to stand in some relation with the sexual functions.
Proportions, difference of, in distinct races. Protective colouring in butterflies; in lizards; in birds; in mammals. Protective nature of the dull colouring of female Lepidoptera. Protective resemblances in fishes. Protozoa, absence of secondary sexual characters in. Pruner-Bey, on the occurrence of the supra-condyloid foramen in the humerus of man; on the colour of negro infants.
Sexual characters, secondary; relations of polygamy to; transmitted through both sexes; gradation of, in birds. Sexual differences in man. Sexual selection, explanation of; influence of, on the colouring of Lepidoptera; objections to; action of, in mankind. Sexual selection in spiders. Sexual selection, supplemental note on. Sexual similarity. Shaler, Prof., sizes of sexes in whales. Shame.
A few general observations on the comparative importance of the different orders may be interesting to the English entomologist. The large and brilliantly-coloured Lepidoptera bespeak the zone they inhabit, far more plainly than any other race of animals.
Gryce in Steel's Wood, he having gone to catch such rare specimens of sleeping lepidoptera as the place afforded and his eyes could discern. Gone! no one knew where. Gone in the night like a falling star, like a passing cloud gone and left no trace, vanished like the sunshine of yesterday or the flowers of last spring!
By chance I have given a few words in my first volume, now some time printed off, about mimetic butterflies, and have touched on two of your points, viz. on species already widely dissimilar not being made to resemble each other, and about the variations in Lepidoptera being often well pronounced. How strange it is that Mr.
Bates and other observers reporting that they have never seen them attacked by the birds, reptiles, or insects which prey upon other lepidoptera. Now it is a curious fact that very different South American butterflies put on, as it were, the exact dress of these offensive beauties and mimic them even in their mode of flight. In explaining the mode of action of this protecting resemblance Mr.
I must confine myself in this place to a few remarks on the order Lepidoptera, and on the ants, several kinds of which, found chiefly on the Upper Amazons, exhibit the most extraordinary instincts. I found about 550 distinct species of butterflies at Ega.
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