226 BUTTERFLIES 



Bangor, Maine. This locality is called the Orono- 

 Stillwater bog and is the only place where collectors have 

 been able to find this species. 



An even more local insect is another of these mountain 

 butterflies found by H. H. Newcomb on Mount Katahdin, 

 Maine. So far as known this species is confined to the 

 higher portion of this mountain and so is even more dis- 

 tinctly localized than the White Mountain butterfly. 

 It is called the Katahdin butterfly {Oeneis noma katahdin). 



The Little Wood Satyr 



Cissia eurytus 



This elfin creature has well been named the Little Wood 

 Satyr, although under our modern conditions it is often 

 found in fields and along hedgeroads rather than in the 

 woods. It has, to a marked degree, the delicacy of struc- 

 ture of its allies and its small size serves to emphasize this 

 appearance. It has also a rather general distribution 

 west to the Mississippi Valley, extending from the corner 

 of Dakota, south through Nebraska, Kansas, and central 

 Texas, and north to Wisconsin, Michigan, and New Eng- 

 land. It occupies the whole of the United States east 

 and south of the lines thus indicated. 



The life-history of this species is very similar to the 

 Common Grayling. The butterflies appear in early 

 summer, deposit their eggs upon grasses, and the resulting 

 larvae feed upon the grasses and grow slowly through the 

 weeks of summer. They become nearly full grown by 

 autumn and hibernate in this condition in such shelter as 



