FAMILY GOSSAMER-WINGED BUTTERFLIES. 121 



lines, or pinkish brown without markings or with heavy dark 

 markings in front and behind. Length ^ inch. 



Chrysalis. — Lighter or darker brown, more or less sprinkled 

 with blackish fuscous dots and blotches and with an obscure 

 dorsal stripe on abdomen ; reticulation with larger meshes than 

 in the other species and not elevated at points of intersection ; 

 abdomen scarcely wider than the thorax, its hairs not more than 

 one fourth the length of the segments. Length about f inch. 



This butterfly is found about shrubbery in all joarts of our 

 district, and is single-brooded, hibernating in all probabil- 

 ity in the Qgg, though eggs have been known to hatch the 

 same season, so that it may also hibernate in an early larval 

 stage. The eggs are pale green, of a turban shaj^e and 

 studded profusely with knobs; they hatch in a few days if in 

 the same season, or mature early in the spring; the cater- 

 pillars, which feed on oaks, hickory, and butternut, eat 

 holes in the leaves and mature the last of June and early 

 in July, the chrysalis state continues from fourteen to 

 twenty days, and the butterflies appear at the end of June 

 or early in July, and are to be found through August and 

 occasionally in September. Eggs are known to be laid all 

 through July and early in August. 



THECLA ED WARDSII— EDWARDS'S HAIR- STREAK. 



Butterfly. — Fore wings of male with a discal stigma; hind 

 wings with a short thread-like tail. Upper surface of wings very 

 dark brown. Under surface slate-brown, the extremity of the 

 cell marked by a dark bar edged with white, and, besides the 

 marginal markings peculiar to the genus, an extramesial series of 

 transversely oval, dark brown, white-ringed spots. Expanse 1| 

 inch. 



Caterpillar. — Onisciform. Head minute, black. Body naked, 

 pilose, tapering but little posteriorly, dark brown marked with 

 yellowish brown, with a broad dorsal dark stripe. Length 

 ^ inch. 



Chrysalis. — Yellowish brown, streaked and blotched with 

 darker brown, with a dark obscure band on the sides; reticula- 



