Author : John Bernhard Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781333240394
Book Description
Excerpt from Contribution Toward a Monograph of the Insects of the Lepidopterous Family Noctuidae of Boreal North America: A Revision of the Deltoid Moths Habitat. - Canada, south to Virginia: west to the Mississippi States. New York in July. This is the most common of the Species, and always easily recognized by the brown shaded transverse posterior and subterminal lines. There is very little variation, and this chie y in the relative distinctness of the transverse anterior line. The antennae of the male have been generally described under the generic heading. The pectinations are long, and from most of them there arises near the tip a long Slender bristle, which replaces the pectinations inwardly at the basal third. At this point two joints bear each a stout corneous process, and next to each a stiff bristle or spine. The pectinations are ciliated, the hair very fine and moderate in length on the inner underside. Just below the pectination on that Side is also, on each joint, a short chitinous process, bearing in a pit a short stout bristle or Spine. The fore legs of the male are extremely modified. The coxa is long, grooved, furnished with long hair, forming no tufts or pencils. The trochanter is shorter, but nearly double the length of the femur. The latter is Short and stout, with a circular disklike enlargement at base of underside, which is furnished with coarse pittings and with long black Specialized scales. On the upper Side it is fringed with similar longer hair and scales, forming no tufts. The tibia is reduced to an oval mass of scales covered by a chitinous Shell, and the tarsi are rudimentary, almost completely aborted. The legs furnished with these structures have, of course, entirely lost their normal function as organs of locomotion, and are examples of modification run riot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."