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THE BUTTERFLIES OF LAGGAN, N. W. T.; ACCOUNT OF CERTAIN SPECIES INHABITING THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN LATITUDE 51° 25′

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Thomas. E. Bean
Thomas. E. Bean
Affiliation:
Laggan, Alberta.
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Definite Marks of the ♀.—Observation of 62 caught specimens enables me to supplement, in some degree, Mr. Strecker's description. The smallest measures 46 mm., equal to 1.8 inch. The largest is 58.5 mm., or 2.3 inches. The average expanse of the 62 is 52.5 mm., or 2.07 inches. The cell spot above primary is larger than in the males, and has never that semi-obsolete appeaarnce which it presents in some of the males; it varies from a small but definite spot of .5 mm. in diameter to a spot of 1.5mm., is usually sub-rotund, sometimes sub-linearm and is frequently centered with yellow in moderate degree.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 22 , Issue 7 , July 1890 , pp. 126 - 132
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1890

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* I hope none of my younger readers entertain the absurd mediæval supersition that hibernating caterpillars pass the winter in a frozen condition. In successful hibernation they do not get near to such a condition; but if they do absolutely freeze, then are they undone caterpillars. Valkyria gives them sleep, unmixed with dreams, and they wake in Valhalla.