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Title: The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea.) Being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, murs et instincts des insects (!)," and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, and others
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891 Blanchard, Emile, 1819-1900
Subjects: Metamorphosis of insects
Publisher: London, Paris, New York : Cassell, Petter & Galpin
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gs. In the other,the legs are equally deficient, and the pupae of both kinds arefound in a firm cocoon amongst leaves. The perfect insect fliesentirely by day, and soon tatters itself There are some interesting moths which, although they havevery short antennae and a long abdomen, with some evidences ofthe presence of a short oviduct, are still classified among theBombycina. They constitute the family HcpialidcB, and are foundin considerable numbers in America, Africa, and Australia, butonly rarely in Europe. The caterpillars feed on the roots of manyplants, and never come into the light, and they are slim, elongated,and colourless. The largest of the European species is Hepialushinmdi, commonly called the Ghost, and the wings of the malesare snowy white in colour with brownish costae and fringes, whilstthe females are decorated with wings of a dull yellow tint, andwith brick-red bands. The larva is pale in colour, and has areddish-brown plate in front on the second segment, and lives
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Tin-; -MKlAMdRniDSES .)1. /\m,/u Xl<l/////U-//,1. THE BOMBYCINA. 121 upon the roots of hops, nettles, and burdocks, being common allover Europe, and even among the hilly districts. Australia, however, is the land where the Hcpialidcs flourish.One of them has a caterpillar which may really be called enormousin size ; it lives within the trunks of the beef-wood trees, andalthough it is a flabby, flat, and white-looking grub, it is by nomeans despised as a luxury by the natives. The Australians eatthe caterpillars uncooked, and peel and squeeze them first of all,just as we do a fig or a peach. The Goat Moth (Cossiis ligniperdd) is a well-known insect, witha short body and large and broad wings of a pale brownish-whitecolour, marked with short wavy lines. The caterpillar of thisinsect is flesh or wine coloured, and has a few hairs upon it ; anda faint and disagreable smell is evolved from it, which is leftbehind upon the wood over which it has recently crawled. Thislarva gnaws the old

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