124 PSYCHGLOGICAL PECULIARITIES 



functions of body, and seem intended only for gratifi- 

 cation." 



It is but a short step from these characteristics 

 to that of pugnacity, which is manifested by none 

 of our own butterflies so conspicuously as by the 

 American Copper (Heodes hyj^ophlaeas). Watch 

 one on a hot and sunny day in a favorable place, 

 and you will see the fellow dart at every passing 

 object, be it butterfly large or small, or even a 

 blundering grasshopper. So, too, the Buckeye 

 (Junonia coenia) has been described by Jones as 

 " a most pugnacious little creature, and appears to 

 love a quarrel, for you may see three or four of 

 them ascending in the air and buffeting each other, 

 now rising, now falling, unremittingly continuing 

 their aerial warfare." 



How totally different this from the sluggish, lazy, 

 easy-going manner of most of the Satyrids, with 

 their dainty ways, tossing themselves in graceful 

 throws in and out the shrubbery ; or the hurried 

 direct way of the species of Argynnis, or better of 

 Eurymus, zigzagging from spot to spot as if on 

 business of the greatest urgency, though not quite 

 certain where it was ; or the bustling self-impor- 

 tant actions of the larger skippers. Even in the 

 butterflies of wilder spots, less frequently seen, how 



