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THE BUTTERFLY HUNTERS. 



apple and cherry trees, on which it leaves its eggs. You 

 will often find the chrysalis on these trees. It remains 

 there through the Winter, and the butterfly does not leave 

 it until the last of May or first of June. The Papilio 

 Turhus flies very high, but it often descends and hovers 

 about small pools of water after a shower. Some seasons 



Papilio Asterias. 



it is very common, and may be found in great numbers 

 in any orchard or pasture where old apple-trees are stand- 

 ing. Almost all the large varieties of butterflies vary in 

 numbers in different years. Some years they disappear 

 almost entirely, and the following Spring they will per- 

 haps come out more abundant than ever. 



