This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...the lateral spines less branching, and tipped with longer fulvous bristles. The legs and prolegs, rufous; the former with the tarsus black. Three hours after the molt the larvae had changed to a uniform reddish-brown color. During this stage of development, the larvce disclosed characters in accordance with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...the lateral spines less branching, and tipped with longer fulvous bristles. The legs and prolegs, rufous; the former with the tarsus black. Three hours after the molt the larvae had changed to a uniform reddish-brown color. During this stage of development, the larvce disclosed characters in accordance with descriptions and representations of H. Maia, which enabled me to refer them to that species. Third molting.--June 20th.f Length of larva, one inch. Color, fuscous. Spines of the two superior rows on segments 3-10 and the mesial one on segment 11, red with their terminal third black, simple, fasciculate, thickly radiating from a black, slightly elevated tubercle; the other spines are glossy black, sparsely branched, the branches cylindrical, whitish near their tips, and having inserted in them a delicate, acute black bristle. Stigmata linear, tawny colored. Sting of larva.--Some experiments made with the larva subsequent to the molting above recorded, in examination of its stinging powers, which were first noticed at this stage of its growth, indicate its possession of this means of defense in a degree considerably exceeding that of the closely allied species, Hyperchiria lo (Fabr.). A larva was dropped three or four times from a height of about ten inches upon the back of the first joint of the thumb. The sensation did not differ materially in kind from the sting of the nettle, but was more acute. In a few minutes the siirface became reddened, and in a eliort time numerous slightly elevated whitish blotches made their appearance, accompanied with a burning and itching. The following day the thumb could not be bent without experiencing a sensible degree of pain, which was materially increased by an attempt to bring the joints to a right angle....
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