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changeable purple, is very fine. It has already become 

 quite numerous, especially near the little brook that crosses 

 the road below the maple grove : this place, from some cause 

 which I am not aware of, is a very favourite resort of many 

 species of butterflies. 



FATHER. I have noticed the same fact, having seen spe- 

 cies there that I had not met with anywhere else ; and on 

 a fine summer day many kinds are always thronging that 



BALTIMORE FRITILLARV. 



(Melitcea Phaeton.) 



lane. I caught, a day or two ago, in that very spot, a 

 beautiful little butterfly, the Baltimore Fritillary (Melitaa- 

 Phaeton). It is the first specimen I have ever seen in 



