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Excerpt from The Canadian Entomologist, 1877, Vol. 9
And 1s.of the chrysalids I had placed on ice, 2oth Sept, laying them in a tin box directly on the surface Of the ice, the temperature Of the house being 40� Far. Part were so placed within three hours after the forming of the chrysalis, and before they had hardened; others within Six hours, and others within nine hours, and so all remained for seven days, that being the longest summer period of the chrysalis. On remov ing them from the ice, they seemed to me dead. They were soft, and when they became hard had a shrivelled surface. I brought them to Coalburgh, and discovered no Sign Of life till 21st Oct, when the weather suddenly became hot, the mercury rising to.87�, with a south wind. In two days 15 butterflies emerged, every one marez'a, not a doubtful form among them in either sex. There were 10 males, 5 females of the former 5 were of var. C, 4 Of D, 1 Of B. Of the 5 females, 1 was var. C, 4 Of B. The other three chrysalids were dead. All the butterflies of this brood were diminutive, starved by the cold, but those from the ice were sensibly smaller than the others. All the examples of var. B were more intense in the coloringof the under surface than any I'ever saw in nature, and the single male was as deeply colored as the females, and this also I never saw in nature. The examples Of the other vars. Were extreme, but not so unusual. 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.
