184 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



tain meadows and on the hillsides in New England. 

 It was named by Dr. Harris after Dr. Boisduval, 

 the entomologist. 



There are other Brownie butterflies, which you 

 will know and the tribe they belong to because of 

 their family likeness. There is, for instance, the 

 Eurytris Brownie and the Nephele Brownie. But 

 we have given enough space to the Brownies and 

 to teU the truth, they do not look as much like the 

 little gnomes for which they are named as do the 

 Skippers. The Brownies are called Brownies be- 

 cause of their color and not because of their habits 

 or form. 



SKIPPERS 



The Skippers, however, have all the character- 

 istics of little dwarfs — big heads, bulging eyes, and 

 short heavy-set bodies (Fig. 165). Even the baby 

 Skippers, the caterpillars (Fig. 166) have big 

 heads. These caterpillars are leaf rollers. While 

 making this illustration, I was unable to find on 

 the locust trees the larva of the Tityrus Skipper 

 (Fig. 165), but I found a leaf roller on a silver 

 poplar tree (Fig. 167), which will serve as an 

 illustration of the ingenious manner in which leaf- 

 rolling caterpillars roll up the leaves. 



