A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



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active all winter and the same is true of a few moths. In April, the 

 spring hrood of some of the moths appeal's, mainly small pjn-alids, 

 geometrids, and tineids, with a few noctuids; as the season advances 

 the number of species rapidly increases, and without doubt in sum- 

 mer a large number could be found. In April, several species of 

 Crambus or Grass Web-worm moths and other moths were common 

 in grassland, but most of those obtained have not been determined 

 specifically. 



Little Sulphur Butterfly. (Eurema lisa Hub.; Scudder*= Terias lisa 

 of most writers, as in Jones, 1863 and 1876.) 



Figure 112. 



This species, referred to above, is one of the most abundant. Its 

 pale sulphur- or canary-yellow wings are externally bordered with 

 dark brown, and the front wings are tipped with the same, and 



112 114 



C 



Figure 112. — Little Sulphur (Eurema lisa); male; natural size; after Scudder. 

 Figure 113. — Clouded Sulphur (Eurymus philodiee); A, male imago, wings 

 reversed on right side ; % natural size ; B, larva ; after Packard. Figure 

 114. — The same ; wings of female ; natural size ; after Scudder. 



edged with reddish. The male has a few reddish specks on under 

 side of hind wings. The expanse of its wings is about 1.25 inches. 

 Hurdis (Rough Notes, pp. 317-323) mentions a large flock, con- 

 taining thousands, that arrived, doubtless from over seas, Oct. I<», 

 L847. J. M. Jones publishedf in 1875 an account of a vast flock 

 that arrived, Oct. 1, 1874. They were first seen out at sea by fisher- 

 men fishing on the reefs. They arrived on the north side of the 

 .Main Island, appearing like a vast cloud, which soon divided into 



* In naming the butterflies I have followed the nomenclature of Mr. S. H. 

 Seudders classical work : Butterflies of the E. U. States and Canada. 



t Psyche, i, p. 121, 1875 ; and Entom. Soc. Lond., ix, p. 54, March, 1876. 



