By this change in the position of the parties, the zygaenahad lost its advantage.
Fierce as is the zygaena and dreaded above all others of its tribe,-- half the dread no doubt is attributable to its hideous configuration.
Something besides: for it now occurred to Snowball that the cunning zygaena was trying to pass him, with the design of making a razzia towards the helpless party in his rear.
It was only after seeing the zygaena float lifeless on the water, and becoming satisfied that Snowball had come out of the struggle safe as well as victorious, that the boy gave utterance to a shout.
But it was a game in which the outside player had all the advantage; for, although the zygaena had by far the greater distance to traverse, what was but sport to it was fatigue and the danger of drowning to its adversaries.
When it pleased the Coromantee to dismount from his slippery saddle, the zygaena floated by his side,--a carcass stained with its own blood, that for fathoms around encrimsoned the azure waters of the ocean!
Should the zygaena once get past him and continue on towards the sailor, swift swimmer as Snowball was, he could have no chance of overtaking a fish.
The cunning zygaena took no heed of either; but with its dark dorsal fin, set like a well-bent sail, it kept straight on towards the easier victims.
Other diseases and pests of the vine met with are anthracnose, pourridie, Septosporium Fuckelii, cuscute, Cochylis, Zygaena ampelophaga and Pyralis.
At the same moment that Nub caught sight of the zygaena the mate also saw it; he fully expected that it would dash at the black and seize him in its dreadful jaws.
It seemed surprising that the zygaena could endure them, but its wonderful vitality is well-known--the terrific gashes which Nub inflicted in no way impeding its rapid progress.
The Ram Sphinx of Geoffroy, or the Six-spot Burnet Moth (Zygaena filipendulae, Fig.
The Six-spotted Burnet (Zygaena Filipendulae) So common is this moth, and so conspicuous when it flies in the blazing sun, that it must be familiar to almost everybody.
There are other cocoons that should be noticed here, such as those formed by the larva of Zygaena Filipendulae, and some Bombyces, saw-flies (Tenthredo L.
The only British genera of this order are Zygaena and Ino; the latter, however, appears to be merely a species of some extra-European genus, as I have remarked several exotics of precisely similar form.
The circumstance of Zygaena having been so long considered a Sphinx will warrant its situation on the very circumference of the circle which contains its order, until a more appropriate occupant of that situation can be found.
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