 Camilla, that, long after he was unable to pursue her, he used to go to the woods, and sit down on a style, for the sole purpose of feasting his eyes with her fascinating evolutions !" The hinder section of the body is the abdomen, which presents nothing...  British Butterflies - Page 58by James Duncan - 1860 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adrian Hardy Haworth - Lepidoptera - 1803 - 430 pages
...Camilla, that long after he was unable to pursue her, he used to go to the woods, and sit down on a stile, for the sole purpose of feasting his eyes with her fascinating evolutions. The following admirable lines of Pope, Virgil, and Dryden, although not all of them exactly necessary to... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - Entomology - 1835 - 418 pages
...-London, so highly delighted at the inimitable flight of Camilla, that, long after he was unable to pursue her, he used to go to the woods, and sit down on a...attached to the posterior part of the thorax by a very small portion of its diameter. It is without any appendage at the extremity, there being nothing... | |
 | 1855 - 528 pages
...335 long after he was unabled to pursue her, he used to go into the woods, and sit down on a stile, for the sole purpose of feasting his eyes with her fascinating evolutions." Lemenitis, we may remember, was one of the names of Venus, and by Leech, Westwood, and some others,... | |
 | John Obadiah Westwood - Butterflies - 1855 - 236 pages
...(Sibilla), that long after he was unable to pursue her he used to go to the woods and sit down on a stile, for the sole purpose of feasting his eyes with her fascinating evolutions." (Haworth, " Lep. Brit." p. 30). The remaining British species belonging to the family Nymphalidae constitute... | |
 | John William Douglas - Beneficial insects - 1856 - 266 pages
...(Sybilla), that long after he was unable to pursue her he used to go to the woods, and sit down on a stile, for the sole purpose of feasting his eyes with her fascinating evolutions." * Black Park is now the nearest locality to London for this species : the larva feeds on honeysuckle.... | |
 | Biology - 1891 - 582 pages
...that, long after he was unable to pursue her, he used to go to the woods, and sit down on a stile, for the sole purpose of feasting his eyes with her fascinating evolutions " (Ifawnrt/i : /.<'/>. / /•//. i. 30). "In its beautiful flight, when it skims aloft, it rivals the... | |
 | William Forsell Kirby - Butterflies - 1896 - 484 pages
...camilla that long after he was unable to pursue her, he used to go to the woods, and sit down on a stile, for the sole purpose of feasting his eyes with her fascinating evolutions." The Rev. Revett Sheppard, writing in Miss Jermyn's "Butterfly Collector's Vade Mecum " (ed. 2), p. 12i,... | |
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