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OxN SOME OF OUR COMMON INSECTS. 



13. THE DISIPPUS BUTTERFLY— Li?nefiitis disippis,Godi. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



In the annual report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, for 

 1872, this insect is referred to at some length, and from the material there 

 given much of the following has been condensed. In the perfect or 

 winged state it is tolerably common throughout Ontario, and in this 

 condition it very closely resembles our common red or archippics butter- 

 fly, see Can. Ent., vol. v, p. 4, from which, however, it may always be 

 distinguished by its smaller size and by a black band which crosses the 

 hind wings, which band is entirely wanting in the archippus. 



Fig. 5 represents the disippus butterfly. The ground color of the 

 wings is a warm orange red, wdth the veins heavy and black, and the 

 margins spotted with white. In the figure the left wings represent the 

 upper surface, while those of the right, which are slightly detached 

 from the body, show the underside ; the two surfaces differ but 



very little in color or markings. The butterfly appears on the wing rather 

 late in the summer, when it may frequently be seen hovering about willow 

 bushes, on which the female usually deposits her eggs, that being the 

 favorite food plant of the larva. 



The egg, which is well shown in fig. 6, is a very beautiful object ; a 

 represents it highly magnified, while at c it is shown of the natural size 

 and in its usual position on a willow leaf. At d one of the minute cells 



