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Page 219 - But a far more singular fact, is the power which this species possesses of making a noise. Several times when a pair, probably male and female, were chasing each other in an irregular course, they passed within a few yards of me, and I distinctly heard a clicking noise.
Page 219 - yet it very frequently alights on the trunks of trees. On these occasions, its head is invariably placed downwards, and its wings are expanded in a horizontal plane, instead of being folded vertically, as is commonly the case. This is the only butterfly which I have ever seen that uses its legs for running.
Page 138 - the prevalence of white coloration is generally accompanied " with some deficiency in the acuteness of the most important senses, " this colour becomes doubly dangerous ; for it not only renders '' its possessor more conspicuous to its enemies, but at the same time " makes it less ready in detecting the presence of danger.
Page 49 - seized by the object of his attentions, enveloped " by her in a web, and then devoured, a sight which, as he adds, filled him with " horror and indignation.
Page 138 - Few, if any, wild animals are wholly white, the head, the face, or at " least the muzzle or the nose are generally black, and there is reason "to believe that dark pigment is essential to good hearing, as it " certainly is to perfect vision.
Page 138 - As it thus appears certain that greater strength of constitution, and more powerful and acute perceptive faculties are, from some yet unknown cause, associated with dark colours in the Vertebrata, may we not presume that insects are subject to the same law, and that dark varieties of
Page 138 - are able to spread and increase under adverse conditions, whilst the lighter coloured types fail to do so, and are consequently eliminated in the struggle for life, and that the occurrence of melanic forms may be thus reasonably explained as a simple
Page 219 - butterfly is not uncommon, and generally frequents the orange groves. Although a high flier, yet it very frequently alights on the trunks of trees. On these occasions, its head is invariably placed downwards, and its wings are expanded in a horizontal plane, instead of being folded vertically, as is commonly the case. This is the only butterfly which I have ever seen that uses its legs for running.
Page 275 - in an insect may be occasional and purely accidental, but when we see, not single specimens but a constant and invariable prevalence of this harmonizing with the surrounding soil, I cannot but think, that the cause may be mainly the powerful impression of surrounding objects on the female during the all important period of life, viz., that of propagation,
Page 138 - of intellect, accompanied by a slight deficiency in the acuteness of " the senses, as compared with the darker forms.