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If one desires to rear it in numbers, a female should be captured 

 and induced to lay her ego-.s on a bunch of the food plant, and when 

 the young cater[)illars appear they should be fed with tender shoots 

 and protected from the parasites. 



Papilio asterias. Female. 



There are two broods in one season, and the last, after hatching 

 into larvte and turning to chrysalides, hibernate during tlie winter in 

 this state. 



The male and female butterflies may readil}^ be distinguished 

 from one another, the former being usually smaller and more strik- 

 ingl}' marked, with the yellow spots brighter and more sharply de- 

 fined. The female frecpiently lacks the inner row of large yellow 

 spots seen on tlie upper wings of the male, they being sometimes re- 

 duced in size or wholly wanting, wliile the lower wings are usually 

 adorned with more blue than is to be found on the wings of the male. 

 Beautifulh' colored varieties of this butterfly are occasionally 

 taken, where 3'ellow and rusty red occupy a large part of the area 

 of the winos. 



