76 CATERPILLARS AND THEIR MOTHS 



Six clays later the first ones turned purplish on the 

 dorsum, and prepared to spin. They were from an 

 inch and three quarters to two inches long. The next 

 day they spun, and four days later they pupated, 

 having passed from egg to pupa in twenty-four days. 



The pui)9e were slender, the wing-covers being 

 darker brown than the body. The tongue-case was 

 not raised. 



To feed this last brood we had to forage in our 

 neighbor's garden and beg for snowberry-twigs, for 

 our bush was entirely stripped; but neighbors are 

 very kind when we need help of this sort, and we had 

 the satisfaction of carrying the family through two 

 generations, and starting a third through eggs from 

 the moths which emerged the next spring. These 

 eggs we gave away, however, being content with two 

 generations and wishing to give the suowberry- and 

 honeysuckle-bushes time to recover from their defolia- 

 tion. It is not often that we have to strip a bush or 

 tree so completely, but it did no harm as far as we 

 could learn. 



Mr. Beutenmiiller gives the range of diffinis as "from 

 Canada to Florida, and westward to Missouri and 

 Iowa." The only place wheru we have seen the moths 

 flying in numbers is Wonalancet, among the White 

 Mountains, where we saw scores of them feeding at 

 the large pasture-thistles, and so overcome by the 

 fragrance or the nectar that they were easily caught 

 with a small box and its cover, sometimes two or three 

 being shut in at one scoop. They flew at midday and 

 looked like large and beautiful bees as they hovered 

 over the thistles, thrusting their long tongues far 



