Identifier: threeyoungcruso00murr (find matches)
Title: Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Murrill, William A.
Subjects: Natural history--West Indies.
Publisher: New York city,: W. A. Murrill
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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butterfly, but it had a broad darkband on the margin of the hind wing. He also sawa yellow one a good deal larger than the one withwhich he was familiar. One of the most interesting new kinds had pe-culiar, long, narrow, yellow and black, transparentwings; and the birds would not eat them any morethan they would the milkweed butterfly. Theywere brilliantly colored and conspicuous, but seemedto have some peculiar charm that protected them. Victorina collected by the hundreds on rottingmangoes and sucked their juice; dione liked vanilla;black page loved the hot sunshine fully as much asthe butterflies farther north; while cracker had apeculiar habit of resting with its wings folded flaton a tree trunk like a catocala moth, or underwing,and crawling around to the opposite side like a squir-rel when the boys came toward it. Sometimes,there would be nearly a dozen cracker butterflies onthe same trunk and they would almost jostle oneanother in their haste to get around. Three Young Crusoes
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, 2. The zebra and black swallowtails of the United States.3. The mud-loving butterfly of the United States and the West Indies. licking the The viceroy, whichmilkweed butterfly >rotectS itself from hialthough much small( \v Insects and Their Relatives 173 Then there was flam-flam, and donkey eyes, andzebra, but not the zebra William knew. The blackswallowtail had an unfamiliar yellow band acrossits front wing; while the only skipper seen had brown-ish wings, a blue back, and long blue tails. Chil-ades, syntarucoides, eurema, kricogonia, acolastus,hesperia, anastrus, padraona, calpodes, and nic-oniades completed the list. Moths First of all, William recognized his enemy of thetobacco fields, the big tobacco-fly, hovering aboutthe Jimson weeds at dusk. Resembling this inshape and habit, were the frangipani sphinx, theblue-green sphinx, the brownish-yellow sphinx, andthe green sphinx. A beautiful little moth with rose-colored hindwings and narrow, white front wings covered withorange

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