BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 95 
This common species feeds on grass. a 
The eggs are pale green, nearly globular, 
somewhat flattened, and under a strong lens pio 33. Ree of 
they appear reticulated over the surface with Pamphila zabulon, 
fine six-sided markings. ie 
They hatch in about ten days, and the young larva is one 
tenth of an inch long, with a large, 
prominent, shining black head and a aU imns 
creamy white body with a yellowish Rigel 9. Dina ok 
tinge towards the tail. The second Pamphila zabulon, 
segment is half encircled with a trans- Coa) 
verse line of black. Fig. 84, mature larva (Scudder). 
They station themselves on the inside of the leaves, near 
the joints, drawing portions of the leaves together with 
silken threads, forming a rude case in which they secrete 
themselves. 
This species is taken in Orono during the middle of June. 
55. PAaMPHILA LEONARDUS, Har. 
Pam’-phi-la le-o-nair’-dus. 
Expanse of wings, nearly an inch and a half. 
Upper side of the wings, dark brown, and, in the males, 
thickly overlaid with tawny scales from the base to the outer 
third of the fore wings, and terminating with a row of lighter, 
tawny spots, three below the costa, two beyond the end of 
the cell, a little out of line and separated from the cell by a 
broad dark brown dash, and two or three below, the lower 
ones of which shade off into the color of the base of the wing. 
There is an oblique, velvety black stripe on the middle of the 
fore wing, below the cell, in the males. 
The hind wings have a curved, central, tawny band, not 
reaching either margin, but broken into about five spots by 
the dark brown veins. The part of the wing towards the ab- 
domen, and the upper side of the body, more or less covered 
with dull tawny hairs. 
Under side of the wings, bright reddish brown; the fore 
wings, blackish from the cell to the hinder margin, and 
