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back margin. The butterfly spreads a trifle over 

 an inch. You will find him among the clover and 

 pasture plants. The larva is a greenish-colored 

 caterpillar and the chrysalis (Fig. 147) is short and 

 dumpy in appearance, yellowish-brown in color and 

 peppered with small black spots. 



The blue butterfly (Fig. 148) is a most at- 

 tractive little fellow and very beautiful. It will 

 spread its wings about the same distance as does 

 the copper butterfly. 

 The wings have a satiny 

 lustre and in the male 

 butterfly are an azure 

 blue color ; the female has 

 fore-wings with wide, 

 dusky outer margins and she has a row of black 

 spots on her hind-wings. The under sides of her 

 wings are pearl gray and the fringes are white. 



If you hunt for them you will find other cop- 

 pers and other blues — the Blue Lucia, for instance. 



THE MONARCH 



But we must skip a number of these dainty little 

 fairies and take our butterfly net out along the 

 fences and roads in search of royal game. There 



