The Moth Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Moths of North AmericaDoubleday, Page, 1903 - 479 стор. |
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... common ancestral form may safely be predicated of very few families , so far as such assertion of a common parentage rests upon evidences found in the living structures of to - day . All attempts to classify the lepidoptera in such a ...
... common ancestral form may safely be predicated of very few families , so far as such assertion of a common parentage rests upon evidences found in the living structures of to - day . All attempts to classify the lepidoptera in such a ...
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... common origin . Exceedingly different views have been entertained by natural- ists in recent years in reference to the matters which we are dis- cussing , and various schemes of systematic arrangement have been evolved , many of which ...
... common origin . Exceedingly different views have been entertained by natural- ists in recent years in reference to the matters which we are dis- cussing , and various schemes of systematic arrangement have been evolved , many of which ...
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... common . Its larva feeds upon the Solanaceae and is particularly destructive to tobacco . It is familiarly known in the South as the " tobacco fly . " ( 3 ) Protoparce occulta Rothschild & Jordan , Plate IV , Fig . 4 , 9. ( The Occult ...
... common . Its larva feeds upon the Solanaceae and is particularly destructive to tobacco . It is familiarly known in the South as the " tobacco fly . " ( 3 ) Protoparce occulta Rothschild & Jordan , Plate IV , Fig . 4 , 9. ( The Occult ...
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... common species in the southern States and Central America , but is only occasionally found in the northern States . I have not infrequently taken specimens in southern Indiana , and it is now and then captured in Pennsylvania and even ...
... common species in the southern States and Central America , but is only occasionally found in the northern States . I have not infrequently taken specimens in southern Indiana , and it is now and then captured in Pennsylvania and even ...
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... common in collec- tions . The insect is found in Kansas and the southwestern States . ( 3 ) Hyloicus separatus Neumagen , Plate VI , Fig . 10 , 8 . ( Neumogen's Sphinx . ) Syn . andromeda Boisduval ( partim . ) ; lugens Smith ( partim ...
... common in collec- tions . The insect is found in Kansas and the southwestern States . ( 3 ) Hyloicus separatus Neumagen , Plate VI , Fig . 10 , 8 . ( Neumogen's Sphinx . ) Syn . andromeda Boisduval ( partim . ) ; lugens Smith ( partim ...
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Abbot & Smith abdomen antennæ Apantesis Apatela Appalachian subregion Arizona Atlantic Subregion Boisduval California Canada caterpillar caterpillar feeds Catocala cocoon collection of W. J. color Colorado COLORTYPE common species COPYRIGHTED BY W. J. Cramer Ctenucha Dart Drury Dyar Estigmene Euxoa EXPLANATION OF PLATE Fabricius fauna fore wings genera Genus Grote & Robinson Guenée habitat Hadena Hampson Haploa Harris Harvey hawkmoth Henry Edwards Herrich-Schæffer hind wings Holomelina Hübner Hulst Hyloicus insect insect is found insect occurs insect ranges larva larva feeds larvæ Lepidoptera Linnæus little moth Mamestra Mexico Mississippi Morrison moth MOTH BOOK moth is found moth occurs Neumogen Noctua Noctuida North America northern Atlantic northern portions Packard Plate XXIX preceding species pupa Pygarctia ranges from Canada represented Riley Rocky Mountains Schinia small genus southward species is found species occurs specimens figured Sphinx Strecker territory Texas tibiæ uncommon Underwing W. J. HOLLAND Walker wing with vein XXVII
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