THE CLOUDED SULPHUR BUTTERFLY. 



Taking the season through, probably no butterfly is more 

 familiar than the common sulphur yellow species, frequently 

 mentioned in books as the philodice butterfly (Fig. 26). It is 

 also often spoken of as the yellow butterfly, and occasionally is 

 called the clover butterfly. Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, the emi- 

 nent student of butterflies, has adopted for it the name of 

 clouded sulphur butterfly, which is a very fitting one. 



l<'l(i '^(i -Clouded S\ili)lnir Butterfly. 



It is a comparatively simple matter to follow the life-history 

 of the clouded svdphur butterfly through a cycle of its exist- 

 ence. Place a clover stem in a bottle of water, with the 

 leaves i)rojccting upward, and put it under some such shelter 

 as is furnished by an ()[)en-mouthed bell-jar or a large paste- 



