British Butterflies and Their Transformations (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from British Butterflies and Their TransformationsThe beautiful tribes of Butter¿ies and Moths constitute one of the primary divisions or orders of winged insects, which has been termed Lepidoptera (scale winged) by Linnaeus, the great nomenclaturist of the animal and vegetable kingdoms: aname derived from the Greek, in allusion to the structure of the wings, which are four in number, of a membranous texture, and covered on both sides with innumerable minute scales, resting upon each other like the tiles of a roof, and easily removed. It is to these scales that the insects are indebted for their splendid colours, the membrane of the wing itself being colourless.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.