 ... to what was going on near it. In another spot, I saw as many as sixteen of these large butterflies within the space of a square foot, all engaged in the same strange action. Some of them emitted the liquid more frequently than others ; and one of...  The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Page 2751884Full view - About this book
 | 1894 - 854 pages
...the liquid more frequently and in greater quantity than others, and I noticed one of them squirt it so as to drop fully a quarter or a third of an inch beyond the point on the ground perpendicular to the end of its body. I also noticed in another place a number of white butterflies all busily engaged... | |
 | 1884 - 318 pages
...minutes — as nearly so as I could reckon — and at the end of that time there was caught in it about a salt-spoonful of what seemed to be pure water, without...also engaged in the same curious proceeding. — R. BABON, Antananarivo, Madagascar: January 3rd, 1884 (extracted from "Nature," March 21th, 1884). [That... | |
 | 1889 - 564 pages
...the liquid more frequently and in greater quantity than others, and I noticed one of them squirt it so as to drop fully a quarter or a third of an inch beyond the point on the ground perpendicular to the end of its body. I also saw in another place a number of white butterflies (or moths ?) all... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 660 pages
...the liquid more frequently and in greater quantity than others, and I noticed one of them squirt it so as to drop fully a quarter or a third of an inch beyond the point on the ground perpendicular to the end of its body. I also noticed in another place a number of white butterflies all busily engaged... | |
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