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It abounds about the biological laboratory at Flathead lake, and 

 specimens showing great variation have been captured. Brandegee has 

 taken it at Helena and Wiley at Miles City. It is abundant in extreme 

 ends of the state. Cooley reports it abundant at Bozeman. It seems to 

 be everywhere one of the most common insects. It is known among 

 entomologists to be the most widely distributed of all butterflies, so far 

 as present knowledges goes. Its food plants are thistles, (Carduus), 

 Urtica, (nettle), Onicus, (plumed thistle), and Altheca (marsh mallow). 

 Coubeaux calls it abundantly around ^ig Sandy. Collected by Coues along 

 the 4th parrallel in 1874. 



THE WEST COAST LADY. Vanessa caryae, Hubner. Fig, 80. 



Fig. 80. Vanessa caryae, 4 upper, 5 lov/er surface. 



Butterfly — It is distinguished from P. cardui by absence of the roseate 

 tint peculiar to that species. It has a complete black bar across the 

 cell in the primaries. Expanse 2.00 in. 



Distribution — It ranges Irom Vancouver to Argentina; found as far 

 east as Utah. Two specimens have been taken at Missoula. As it 

 has been taken by no one else Missoula is perhaps as far east as it will 

 be found. 



HUNTER'S BUTTERFLY, Vanessa huntera, Fabricius. 



Fig. 80a. Vanessa huntera, natural size. 



