The figures of these men and women straggled past the flower-bed with a curiously irregular movement not unlike that of the white and blue butterflies who crossed the turf in zig-zag flights from bed to bed.
Some butterflies that are supposed to be protected have the protective markings on the underside, so that these are actually hidden when the insects are flying from pursuing birds.
Butterflies in particular, and especially their markings and coloration, are taken as illustrations.
We might suppose, therefore, that the butterflieswhich possess this peculiar form were better able to escape pursuit.
My collection of butterflies was not large; but I obtained some rare and very handsome insects, the most remarkable being the Ornithoptera Brookeana, one of the most elegant species known.
The beautiful Longicorns were scarcer than usual, and the few butterflies were all of tropical species.
This was a better locality, and I obtained some fine butterflies and very good birds, among which was one more specimen of the rare ground dove (Phlegaenas tristigmata), which I had first obtained near the Maros waterfall in South Celebes.
The rare and beautiful Butterflies of Celebes were the chief object of my search, and I found many species altogether new to me, but they were generally so active and shy as to render their capture a matter of great difficulty.
Many of the finest tropical butterflies have this habit, and they are generally so intent upon their meal that they can be easily be reached and captured.
The road was shady and apparently much trodden by horses and cattle, and I quickly obtained some butterflies I had not before met with.
The most abundant butterflies were the whites and yellows (Pieridae), several of which I had already found at Lombock and at Coupang, while others were new to me.
In the more shady parts butterflies were tolerably abundant; the most common being species of Euplaea and Danais, which frequent gardens and shrubberies, and owing to their weak flight are easily captured.
In the denser thickets I would capture the small metal-blue butterflies (Amblypodia) sitting on the leaves, as well as some rare and beautiful leaf-beetles of the families Hispidae and Chrysomelidae.
In butterflies I was rather more successful, obtaining several fine species quite new to me, and a considerable number of very rare and beautiful insects.
The butterflies of that island are in many cases characterised by a peculiarity of outline, which distinguishes them at a glance from those of any other part of the world.
The next day, he did a little more, and, near the latter part of the afternoon, Jonas saw him running about after butterflies in the yard, and asked him if he had got his work all done.
He accordingly walked slowly along to the house, stopping to look at the grasshoppers and butterflies by the way.
The pleasure of catching butterflieswould be the amusement of play.
And all around her, too, the delicate white blossoms poured out fragrance, and the giant swallow-tail butterflies in gold and black fluttered and floated among the blossoms or clung to them as though stupefied by their heavy sweetness.
All day long brilliant butterflies hover on great curved wings over the jungle edge; all day long the cock-quail whistles from wall and hedge, and the crestless jays, sapphire winged, flit across the dunes.
A few butterflies still flitted in the golden radiance, but already that solemn harbinger of sunset, the garden toad, had emerged from leafy obscurity into the gravel path, and hopped heavily forward as Malcourt passed by.
He leaned on his elbows, hands clasped, looking out into the sunlight where myriads of brilliant butterflies were fluttering over the carpet of white phlox.
And that's how Gray and I caught the swift Ajax butterflies for his collection!
Malcourt continued to stare at the orange-and-yellow butterflies dancing over the snowy beds of blossoms.
Just see those zebra-striped butterflies darting like lightning over the palmetto scrub!
Drowsed by the sun, and the white sand, and the foam, their thoughts slept like butterflies on the flowers of delight.
Three or four butterflies fluttered up and down in agitated little leaps, around him.
Soon the pink butterflies had gone, leaving a scarlet stretch like a field of poppies in the fens.
On the higher paths a fresh breeze was energetically chasing the butterflies and driving the few small clouds disconsolate out of the sky.
The brief pink butterfliesof sunrise and sunset rose up from the mown fields of darkness, and fluttered low in a cloud.
During the afternoon some twenty-four butterflies actually collected around the refuse and with their antennae sensed the dainties--shall I say?
The cook had thrown on the shore the heads and entrails of fish and by some unknown method the butterflies were able to ascertain its location.
The Rauzzini is, I fancy, like one of the splendid butterflies we came upon in the Straits, fluttering from flower to flower.
Immediately beautiful butterflies filled the room, dazzling the eyes and shining in all the colours of the silk itself.
A little later they brought in a table of rice for each of the party, and Chon took a mouthful of his, and then blew it out toward the courtyard, when the rice changed into beautiful butterflies that flew gaily away.
No human being had ever visited those groves perfumed by orchids, gauzy as the wings of the butterflies which poised over them and sipped the nectar stored in their slender throats.
If not a duty, at least it is a source of happiness, for the particular insects which revel in the nectar of the perpetually flowering shrub are the two most gorgeous butterflies of the land--pleasantly known as Ulysses and Cassandra.
The golden flowers, grouped in huge heads, are rich in nectar, attracting birds and butterflies by day and flying foxes at night.
Pomeloes have put forth new growth a yard long in less than a fortnight, and are preparing a bridal array of blooms such as will make birds and butterflies frantic with admiration and perfume the scene for the compass of a mile.
I hadn't the least idea that you were in the service; butterflies and diplomacy!
Are there not rare butterflies in the Amazonian swamps?
Who knows anything about rare butterflies appreciates the peril of the pursuit; one never picks the going and often stumbles.
If I had a million, no pirates orbutterflies for mine.
Butterflies did not excite his concern in the least.
He was a hunter of butterflies by nature; but he possessed a something more than a mere smattering of other odd crafts.
Also look very carefully on the under side of leaves, on twigs, and on the bark of trees for chrysalids of butterflies and cocoons of moths.
Butterflies may generally be distinguished from moths by their habit of holding their wings together above them when at rest, by the feelers which are knobbed at the end, and by the rather slender abdomen.
Upon our return, long after the sun's rays had grown strong, we observed some of the butterflies showed signs of reanimation.
The observations on the death-rate of bees and butterflies on the glacier, to be referred to presently, seem to negative such a hypothesis, and to show that a large preponderance of bees over butterflies make their way to the heights.
The bees resembled our hive bee in appearance, the butterflies resembled the small white variety common in our gardens, which has yellow and black upon its wings.
The ants and the butterfliessip for a brief moment of its waters, and again vanish into the 100 inorganic: life, love and death encompassed in a day.
As regards the conditions of insect life in the higher alps, it came to my notice in a very striking manner that vast numbers of such bees and butterflies as venture up perish in the cold of night time.
In the sunshine the Alpine butterfliesflitted from stone to stone.
I have a branch covered with moss, and I have pinned thebutterflies to it.
The bees flew in and out of the window; butterflies chased each other over the garden.
Professor Weismann comes to the same conclusion with respect to certain European butterflies in his valuable essay 'Ueber den Saison- Dimorphismus' 1875.
In return, Chrysanthème gives Campanule a magic fan, with paintings that change at will from butterfliesfluttering round cherry-blossoms, to outlandish monsters pursuing each other across black clouds.
Sucre, with the inevitable little rocks, or little butterflies eternally the same.
There he saw bright-colored butterflies fluttering about the flowers; on one side red-gold beetles were creeping in the grass before his eyes; on the other some huge lizards were sunning themselves on a rock.
Fani, as he stood by a bed of flowers, watching with delight the airy butterflies flitting from blossom to blossom, and then floating away as in ecstacy up into the blue air.
Gay butterflies fluttered hither and thither, sipping sweets from the honey-laden flowers.
Indeed, demure and rather shy, she seemed out of place in that crowd of the more brilliant butterflies of fashion.
Harry Benthall was one of these butterflies among legislators.
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