The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 6 of 31 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 6 of 31 (Classic Reprint) written by C. G. Barrett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 6 of 31 The following day the clouds were higher, and, skirting Loch Assynt by the Lochinver road until we reached the ruined castle, we turned towards the mountains, ascending the right hand bank of the Calda burn. A gleam of sunshine brought out a number of Lyccenu Icarus, nearly all the under-sides of which were very pale, and with relatively small spots; a form which, so far as my limited experience goes, is abundant in n.w. Ireland, as well as in n.w. Scotland, and difiers considerably from the usual southern type. A specimen that I collected near the same locality four years previously is beautifully streaked with bluish-black at the base of the hind-wings, and the usual spots very indistinct, almost obsolete. The same year, but a few miles nearer Lochinver, I found anonympka Typhon and Argynnis Aglaia in great abundance the females of the latter being very large and so richly coloured as to bear to this species almost the same relation that the var. Valezinu does to A. Papbiu. Beyond a few L. Caesium, and a solitary specimen of Eupz'thecia nanata that we kicked up in the wet heather, we found no more insects during ourlong climb into the mountains, cloud and occasional showers preventing anything flying. 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.