Image: The papilios of Great Britain - systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature with the natural history of each species (1795) (14781760254)

Description: Nymphalis antiopa Identifier: papiliosofgreatb00lewi (find matches) Title: The papilios of Great Britain : systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature with the natural history of each species ... Year: 1795 (1790s) Authors: Lewin, William, d. 1795 Subjects: Butterflies Publisher: London : Printed for J. Johnson ... Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: number of thefe infects were flying and foaring about for the fpace of twelve or fourteendays ; and then, as if v.itli one confent, they migrated from us, and were no more feen. The female, fig. 4, difiirs from the male only in fize, being much the largeft. Thecaterpillars, fig. i, and chryfalis, fig. 2, are figured from Rcefel; and the following ishis account of their breeding : When the caterpillars are near the lime of their transfor-mation, tlicy retire to a place of flieltcr, there fixing their hind legs by a glutinous web,with their heads downwards, and bent towards tlie belly, fig. 3. In a days timethe Qcin flips ofi^, and the chryfalis appears as reprefented, fig. 2. They hang in thisftate about fourteen days, and then the butterflies are produced. The females lay tlieireggs on the branches of willow trees, in the early part of the funimer; and the youngcaterpillars come forth in three weeks: but if the eggs be laid in the autumn, they remainin that ftatc the whole winter. J- Text Appearing After Image: TirzeufiTi a^i. fTr ja,^r ( 7 ) DIVISION I. MOUCHES PORTE-PLUMES. LEPIDOPTERES DE LINN^US.ORDRE I. MOUCHES DE JOUR. Les ailes font au nombre de quatre, et garnies de petites plumes: le corps eft velu ; latrompe, ou probofcide, eft longue, et roulee en forme de fpirale, quand elle neft point enadlion. GENRE I. PAPILLONS. PAPILLONS DE LINN^US. lis ont des antennes a mafle: quatre ailes; perpendiculaires au plan de pofition dans Ietatde repos: les chenilles, ou larves, ont fix grifFes, huit pattes, et deux crochets. SECTION I. PAPILLONS AUX AILES DENTELEES. Les larves font heriffies depuies et de poils : elles fe fufpendent par la queue quand ellesfe changent en chryfalide ou en nymphe. ESPECE I. LE PAPILLON DU SAULE. PI. i. Antiopa. Limiieus.Camberwell Beauty. Harris. Trois de ces fuperbes et tares infectes furent pris en 1748, pres de Camberwell, dans Iccomte de Surry : depuiscctte epoque jufquen 1789, il neft point parvenu a notre connoif-fance.quonenaitvudautresde cette efpece en Angpapiliosofgreatb00lewi Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The papilios of Great Britain - systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature with the natural history of each species (1795) (14781760254)
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