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here the red border is interrupted by dark marginal spots; the 

 fore wings are also furnished with two black bars in the cell and 

 an extramesial series of similar oblique bars. Under surface 

 light brown, tinged on the disk of the fore wings with red and 

 spotted as above ; the hind wings are traversed by a submarginal 

 sinuous red stripe, an extramesial sinuous series, and an intra- 

 mesial straight series of black dots. Expanse 1-li inches. 



Caterpillar. — Onisciform. Head minute, yellowish green. 

 Body naked, pilose, grass-green with a faint dusky dorsal line and 

 darker, sometimes roseate, along the middle of the sides. Length 

 nearly f inch. 



Chrysalis. — Light brown or livid, tinged slightly with yellow- 

 ish green, dotted with blackish, the dots on the abdomen arranged 

 longitudinally in a dorsal series and on either side, above and in- 

 cluding the spiracles, five series, sometimes faint. Length nearly 

 I inch. 



This lively and pugnacious butterfly is found everywhere 

 in our district, always in the full sunshine. Even the 

 lovers of nature shut up w^ithin the avails of our large cities 

 can enjoy in any public park a sight of these ubiquitous 

 flutterers, can watch them in their hymeneal dance as they 

 toss themselves up and down in contra-unison and then 

 dash away to repeat the sport elsewhere; they are fearless 

 little brilliants and heed not an approaching footstep until 

 just upon them. They are double-brooded in the northern, 

 triple-brooded in the southern, part of our district, changing 

 in New England at about the latitude of Concord, N. H. 

 In the double-brooded district, the first brood usually ap- 

 pears in the first week of June and lasts until the middle 

 of July; the second appears at about the close of the first 

 week of August and flies nearly through September. In 

 the triple-brooded district it first appears about the middle 

 of May and continues nearly to the end of June; the next 

 brood flies from about the end of the first week of July 

 until the middle or latter part of August; the third appears 

 toward the end of August and flies through September. 

 Winter is passed in the chrysalis state, or possibly, in some 



