THE BUTTERFLY HUNTERS. 79 



Aphrodite butterfly expands over three inches. It first 

 appears in the month of July, and flies about in the mead- 

 ows all through August. By the first of September you 

 will find it faded and weak, trying, in vain to raise itself 

 above the low shrubs growing close to the ground. You 

 will not find any more butterflies as large as this, except 

 some of the varieties I have already described to you, 

 many of which linger round the fields all through the 

 month of August. The genus Cynthia, to which Frank's 

 Hunter's butterfly belongs, possesses some of very good 

 size, but none as large as the Aphrodite butterfly. 



" Here are two smaller butterflies belonging to the genus 

 Argynnis. They resemble each other so closely that with- 

 out special attention you cannot distinguish them apart. 

 This one is the Argynnis Myrina. You see it is very small, 

 expanding less than two inches, but the same in color as 

 the Aphrodite butterfly I have just described, the wings 

 being of tawny orange, and marked in the same manner, 

 except that on the hind wings of the Myrina butterfly are 

 some black lines. The under side of the wings are paler 

 in color, but marked with the silvery spots arranged in 

 rows. There is a row of black dots between the two 

 outer rows of silver. This little butterfly may be found 

 in low grounds all through the Summer. There are two 

 broods. The first leaves the chrysalis about the first of 

 June, and some of these are still hovering about when the 



