Hardwicke's science-gossip - an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature (1868) (14779521434)

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Hardwicke's science-gossip - an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature (1868) (14779521434)

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Hardwicke's science-gossip - an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature (1868) (14779521434)

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Identifier: hardwickesscienc04cook (find matches)
Title: Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825 Taylor, J. E. (John Ellor), 1837-1895
Subjects: Science Natural history
Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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Eig. 35. The Swallow-tailed Butterfly (Papilio Machaon). Feb. 1, 1868.) HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 37
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Fig. 36. The Hobnet Cleabwing (Sphecia apifomis). 3S HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. (Feb.), 1S6S. the Swallow-tailed Butterfly (Papilio machaori) andits food-plant, the wild carrot. The three stages ofcaterpillar, chrysalis, and imago are all represented,and although the wings of the latter are displayedin a manner hardly peculiar to the insects which wehave so often seen floating about iu profusion atHorning Fen, they are undoubtedly in the orthodoxposition, as represented by the cabinets of Frenchentomologists. The second plate (fig. 3G) represents the metamor-phoses of the Hornet Moth, the Sphecia apiformis oiEnglish entomologists, but named Sesia apiformisin the present work. It affects the trunks androots of poplars in its early stages, and when matureits clear wings and banded body would probablymislead the novice into a belief that it Mas moreclosely allied to bees and hornets, than to butter-flies or moths. The microscopist has not hithertomade the most of our indigenous species o

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