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wind and rain for about ten days, then the skin breaks 

 apart and the butterfly emerges. 



Over a large part of its range there are two broods of 

 this butterfly each year. The adults appear in early 

 summer and lay eggs which develop into butterflies again 

 during the latter part of summer. The life-history of this 

 generation is the one described in the last paragraph. The 

 eggs laid by these late summer butterflies, however, re- 

 quire a somewhat different story. They hatch in the 

 same way as the others but when the caterpillars have 

 moulted about twice they form a winter case or hiber- 

 naculum, in exactly the same way as the caterpillars of 

 the Viceroy. They remain within these winter homes 

 till the following spring, when they come forth and com- 

 plete their development producing the early summer brood 

 of butterflies with which our story began. 



The Vicereine 



Basilarchia floridensis 



In Florida and some of the other Southern states there 

 is a butterfly which looks almost like the Viceroy except 

 that the brown coloring of the wings is very much darker. 

 The species has been called the Vicereine as it is believed 

 to mimic the Queen Butterfly, a species closely related to 

 the Monarch and occurring in the Southern states. The 

 Vicereine probably has a life-history very similar to that 

 of its northern cousin. 



Synopsis of the Sovereigns 



Banded Purple (Basilarchia arthemis or Limenitis 

 arthemis). Expanse 2| inches. Ground color of upper 



