 Thus the caterpillar skin ascends, its plaits are pushed nearer and nearer together, and it is soon reduced to a packet so small that it covers only the end of the tail of the chrysalis (Fig. 106). But here comes the culminating point, the most difficult...  The Canadian Entomologist - Page 2251877Full view - About this book
 | Louis Figuier - 1868 - 556 lehte
...(Fig. 106). But here comes the culminating point, the most difficult part of the operation. The pupa, which is shorter than the caterpillar, is at some...which it must fix itself; it is only supported by that ahe'ii extremity of the caterpillar's skin which had not Butterfly completing , ,. _ , . . the operation... | |
 | Louis Figuier - 1869 - 560 lehte
...chrysalis (Fig. 106). But here comes the culminating point, the most difficult part of the operation. The chrysalis, which is shorter than the caterpillar,...which it must fix itself; it is only supported by that Fig. 106. — Chrysalis of ~ V , . , ' ' the amaii Tortoise-sheii extremity oi the caterpillar s skin... | |
 | Louis Guillaume Figuier - 1872 - 612 lehte
...chrysalis (Fig. 106). But here comes the culminating point, the most difficult part of the operation. The chrysalis, which is shorter than the caterpillar, is at some distance from the silky netwerk to which it must fix itself ; it is only supported by that extremity of the caterpillar's skin... | |
 | 1878 - 628 lehte
...subject, and quotes from Figuier's Insect World the following account of the pupation of Urticce : " The chrysalis, which is shorter than the caterpillar,...the silky net-work to which it must fix itself: it i's only supported by that extremity of the caterpillar's skin which has not been split open. It has... | |
 | 1879 - 446 lehte
...Vanessa artica : — " But here comes the culminating point, the most difficult part of the operation. The chrysalis, which is shorter than the caterpillar,...by that extremity of the caterpillar's skin which had not been split open. It has neither legs nor arms, and yet it must free itself from this remaining... | |
 | James William Tutt - 1922 - 524 lehte
...Hi., pp. 208-209. " But here comes the culminating point, the most difficult part of the operation. The chrysalis, which is shorter than the caterpillar, is at some distance from the silky net work to which it must fix itself ; it is only supported by that extremity of the caterpillar's... | |
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