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THE HAIR STREAKS 



These little butterflies are distinguished from others by the long 

 tail-like prolongations of the hind wings. 



The Gray Hair Streak. — This frisky little brown butterfly has a 

 bright orange-spot on the hind wings and one or two white tipped tails ; 

 it also has orange on the tip of its antennae and its head. Its caterpillar 

 is less than a half an inch long and slug-shaped. It is naked reddish- 

 brown. It feeds upon the fruit and seeds of hop, hawthorne, hound's 

 tongue and St. John's wort. 



The Banded Hair Streak. — This is our common- 

 est hair streak. It frequents openings in the woods, 

 especially scrub oak clearings ; though dull in color 

 it has on the inside at the tip of the hind v wings a 

 blue patch with an orange patch on each side of it. 

 Its caterpillar is slug-shaped, half an inch long, 

 grass-green in color and feeds on oak, hickory and 

 butternut, eating holes in the leaves ; it winters as a 

 newly-hatched caterpillar. 



THE BANDED H.'VIR- 

 STREAK 



Expanse, one and one- 

 fifth inches. Color, 

 dark hroivn or black- 

 ish; lower side of the 

 wings grayish with 

 rows of black spots 

 margined ivith white. 

 Blue spotwithorange 

 spot on each side of 

 it on the hind angle 

 of the loiver iving. 



THE COPPERS 



These are distinguished from the other gossam.er 

 wings by their orange-red and brown colors. 



The JJ^anderer. — This lovely little butterfly is 

 usually found near alders. Its caterpillar is rather 

 wide in the middle and pointed at each end, about one-half inch in length ; 

 its color is brown, marked with brownish stripes. It differs from the 

 caterpillars of other butterflies in that it is not vegetarian, but lives in- 

 stead, upon the woolly plant-lice which infest the alder and thus is a very 

 good friend to this tree. 



THE WANDERER 



Expanse, a little over an inch. Color, 

 dark brown witJi large, irregular. orange- 

 yellow patch in the central part of the 

 fore wing and a similar patch on the 

 outer half of the hind wing. 



THE AMERICAN COPPER 



Expanse, about an inch. Color of front 

 wings, red teith black spots, and borders 

 of hind wings, coppery-brown ivith 

 broad orange-red band on the outer 

 margins. 



The American Copper. — These jolly midgets flit about over lawns 

 almost always playing with each other and sometimes even daring to play 



