Butterfly-hunting in many lands : notes of a field naturalist / by George B. Lonstaff ; to which are added translations of papers by Fritz Müller on the scent-organs of butterflies and moths ; with a note by E.B. Poulton.

  • Lonstaff, George B.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Butterfly-hunting in many lands : notes of a field naturalist / by George B. Lonstaff ; to which are added translations of papers by Fritz Müller on the scent-organs of butterflies and moths ; with a note by E.B. Poulton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER IX PAGE NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA, 1910 Albatross — Hobart — Wellington — Immigrants — Hot Lakes — Eruption of Pohoto—Wanganui River — The Land of Ferns — Peripatus — Sugaring —Christ Church—A startling Likeness—Dunedin—Lake Wakatipu—A Perilous Ford—Paradise—New Species—Sydney—Successful Mimicry— Melbourne—Adelaide—Halley’s Comet 439 CHAPTER X BUTTERFLY BIONOMICS § 1, Scents—§ 2, Coloured Juices—§ 3, Tenacity of Life—§ 4, Mutilations by Foes—§ 5. Experiments on Palatability—§ 6, Successful Mimicry—§ 7, Peculiarities of Flight—§ 8, Heliotropism—§ 9, List and Shadow—§ 10, Inverted Attitude—§ 11, Attitudes at Rest—§ 12, Some Cosmopolitan Lepidoptera—§ 13, Seasonal Forms—§ 14, Selection of Coloured Resting Places 489 APPENDIX PAPERS BY FRITZ MULLER, TRANSLATED BY MR. E. A. ELLIOTT, F.Z.S., F.E.S. Introductory Note by Professor E. B. Poulton, D.Sc., F.R.S 601 § I. On Hair-tufts, Felted Patches, and similar Structures on the Wings of Male Lepidoptera. [From the German] 604 § II. On the Sexual Spots of the Males of Danais erippus and D. gilippus. (Plate A.) [From the Porhiguese] 616 § III. On the Scent-organs of the Butterflies, Epicalia acontius, Linn., and Myscelia orsis, Drury. (Plate B.) [From the Portuguese] .... 621 § IV. On Scent-organs on the Legs of certain Lepidoptera. (Plate C.) [From the Portuguese] 626 § V. On Scent-Organs on the Legs of certain Lepidoptora. (Supplement.) (Plate D.) [From the Portuguese] 631 § VI. On the Scent-organs of Antirrhaca archaca, Hiibn. (Plato E.) [From the Portuguese] 634 § VII. On the Costal Fold of the Hcspcridac. (Plates F and G.) [From the Portuguese] 640 §VIII. Where is tho Seat of the Musky Scont in Hawk-Moths? [From the German] 649
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