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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 



beautiful that, wlieu sucees.sful, one will consider the time well spent 

 in striving at tlieni. 



This species is found over the whole of the eastern United States, 



Liint'iiitis. Hybrid. Male. 



except the most noi'thern part, where another allied insect, Limenitis 

 arthemis/tuhes its place. Hybrids l)etween these two species, or what 

 are supposed to be such by naturalists, are occasionally taken. These 

 var}' from insects which show a slight trace of the white bars across the 



Limenitis. Hybrid. Male. Underside. 



wings, to those in which llie l)ars are almost as conspicuous as in the 

 following described species. The coloring of the rest of the insect is 

 similar to Litaenit'tH ursula. The larva is a curiously shaped and 



