A BUTTERFLY SERENADE 



April 1 4th 



NSECT hunters the world over will need 

 no introduction to the butterfly whose 

 portrait is given above the cosmopoli- 

 tan Vanessa Antiopa of the books, the 

 " yellow edge " of the American boy's 

 cabinet, the " Camberwell Beauty" of 

 England, known to every country boy 

 as the first butterfly that flits in the early spring, and a 

 challenge for a chase at any time. But we must make 

 our acquaintance with Antiopa anew, for he has evident- 

 ly kept a secret from most of us all these years. It 

 evidently has something more to say for itself which 

 few of us have heard. 



Here is a matter for our boys to look into. A Mis- 

 sissippi naturalist writes to our Government Entomo- 

 logical Department : " Vanessa Antiopa has a ' voice.' I 

 heard it in Europe, in Lorraine, from two mating An- 



