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southern New England, where it is very rare, west and south, over 

 the entire country to the foot-hills of the Rocky Mountains. It 

 is very comm.on in the lower Appalachian region, and in southern 

 Ohio, Indian, Kentucky, and Tennessee is especially abundant." 



The big "Tiger Swallow-tail " {Papilio turnus), the brilliant 

 yellow butterfly, so conspicuously m.arked with black, is too well 

 known to require either description or a figure ; it has been locally 

 called the "lordly Tumus." There is a black form, of the female 

 which occurs in the southern part of its range, and which was, for a 

 long time, regarded as a distinct species. There is also, in Sitka, 

 a sm_all, yellow, dwarf form., and specim.ens of this are to be found in 

 private and museum collections. 



A much handsomer and very m.uch larger butterfly than the 

 Tiger Swallow-tail is the Daunus {P. daunus), which is found in 

 many parts of the Rocky Mountains, being especially abundant in 

 certain parts of Arizona. It closely resembles in general appear- 

 ance P. turnus, but may at once be recognized by its larger size and 

 the fact that it has two "tails" on either posterior wing — an outer 

 long one and a shorter inner one — instead of the single one on 

 either wing as in Ttirnus. In the sm_all P. pilumnus, there are 

 three "tails" on either side, which gives this butterfly a very elegant 

 appearance. It is a Mexican species (feeding on laurel leaves in 

 its early stages), but has been taken in Arizona. 



The Hst of our Swallow-tails and their near alHes is a long one, 

 and it will be quite out of the question to even mention them all by 

 name here ; but I cannot finish with them without at least calling 

 attention to the famiUar black one, here shown on page 254, which 

 is a male of this species (P. troilus). Besides occurring throughout 

 the Atlantic States, this handsome butterfly is to be found in 

 certain localities down the Mississippi River. I recall having taken 

 it once or twice in the environs of New Orleans, while I have cap- 

 tured scores of specimens of it in the New England and Middle 

 States, where also occurs the beautiful "Pipe-vine Swallow-tail" 

 (P. pkilenor). 



Fine specimens of the Monarch butterfly are here shown on page 

 258, they being a pair I captured upon some Goldenrod at Bradley 

 Hills, (Edgemoor) , Maryland, a number of years ago. This species 

 is the Anosia plexippus of science, and is so well known as not to 

 require any special description. Its general color is of a lively 

 reddish, set off with black markings and venations. Rows of 



