INNOXIOUS INSECTS, 



THE GO AT- WEED BUTTERFLY— Paphia gly cerium, Doubleday, 



[Lepidoptera, Nymphalidoe.) 



There is is an interesting 

 and rare butterfly known to 

 entomologists by the name of 

 Paphia glycerium, which oc- 

 curs in Missouri, Texas and 

 'Illinois, and perhaps in other 

 southwestern States. It is an 

 interesting species on ac- 

 count of the dissimilarity of 

 the sexes, and of the position 

 |it holds among the butter- 

 flies; and as its natural his- 

 tory w r as unknown till the 

 present year, I will transcribe 

 from the American Ento- 

 mologist, the following ac- 

 count of it, which I w r as ena- 

 bled to prepare from speci- 

 mens kindly sent to me last 

 September by Mr. J. R. Muhleman, of Woodburn, Ills., and from 

 further facts communicated by Mr. L. K. Hayhurst, of Sedalia, Mo. 



Dr. Morris, in his " Synopsis of the Lepidoptera of North Amer- 

 ica," places this butterfly with the Nymphalis family, of which the 

 Disippus Butterfly (Nymphalis disippus, Godt.), is representative. 

 The larva, however, has more the form and habits of that of the Ti- 

 tyrus Skipper (genus Goniloba), while singularly enough, the chrysa- 

 lis resembles that of the Archippus Butterfly (genus Danais). 



The larva feeds on an annual (Croton capitatum) which is toler- 

 ably common in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, and westward, where it 

 is known by the name of Goat-weed, and as no value whatever is at- 



