600 Butterflies and Moths in Full Color
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600 Butterflies and Moths in Full Color - W. F. Kirby
ARCTIIDAE
Introduction
Butterflies and moths belong to the order Lepidoptera, or scale-winged insects, which forms part of the class Insecta, the largest and most important division of the sub-kingdom Articulata, or jointed animals. The beautiful forms and colors of butterflies, the intricacy of their markings, and their graceful evolutions in the air and around flowers, have always caused them to be much admired by lovers of the beauties of nature. Almost every child has hunted butterflies through the woods and fields, or has reared silkworms or other moths, and been delighted to find the newly emerged insect in the box along with the empty pupa-case. Very often, just the remembrances of these youthful pleasures lead many to return to it in their mature years. The beauty and the wonderful transformations of butterflies and moths have attracted attention and pleased the fancy from the most ancient times. Philosophers have even reverently traced in them the symbol of the soul, and afterwards, of immortality; for there is a beautiful analogy between the graceful winged insect emerging from the dark, motionless pupa, and the spirit leaving its mortal body and winging its flight to higher regions.
W. F. KIRBY
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Copyright © 2007 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2007, contains sixty-one full-color plates from European Butterflies and Moths, originally published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, in 1882. A complete list of the contents of the plates and an Alphabetical Index of Latin Names appear at the end of the book.
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