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great a diiferenee between the timid Gray- veined 

 White (Pieris oleracea), which, though it feeds 

 upon the produce of the garden, will scarcely let 

 you approach in any near proximity, and the showy 

 Red-banded Purple (Basilarchia arthemis) that 

 will allow you to approach and pick it up with the 

 finoers. What a contrast between the dignified 

 Monarch (Anosia plexippus) moving imperturbably 

 along its own way, undisturbed by the attacks of 

 the smaller butterflies which dash about it, and the 

 vascillating dainty blues which cannot make up 

 their minds just what to do ; or between the wary 

 artful White Mountain butterfly (Oeneis semidea) 

 and the bold and careless Tiger Swallow-tail 

 (Jasoniades glaucus). How rarely one sees collected 

 in one spot on a flower or about a moist spot more 

 than two or three American Coppers (Heodes hypo- 

 phlaeas) ; they are too vicious and quarrelsome to 

 be companionable. How different the equally active 

 but eminently social Clouded Sulphur (Eurymus 

 philodice) or Red-banded Purple (Basilarchia 

 arthemis), which congregate by hmidreds, as do 

 also the Tiger Swallow-tail (Jasoniades glaucus) 

 and many others. The cunning ways of the 

 W^hite Mountain butterfly (Oeneis semidea) in its 

 rocky defenses are elsewhere mentioned, and a simi- 



