Genus Euptoieta 



This species has been taken as far north as Long Island and 

 Connecticut, though it is a very rare visitant in New England ; it 

 is quite common in Virginia and thence southward, and occurs 

 not infrequently in southern Illinois and Indiana, ranging west- 

 ward and southward over the entire continent to the Isthmus of 

 Panama, and thence extending over the South American conti- 

 nent, wherever favorable conditions occur. 



(2) Euptoieta hegesia, Cramer, Plate VIII, Fig. 8, $ (The 

 Mexican Fritillary). 



The upper side is marked very much as in the preceding 

 species, but all the lines are finer and somewhat more regular, 

 and the basal and discal areas of the hind wings are without dark 

 spots in most specimens. The under side is less mottled and 

 more uniformly dark rusty-brown than in E. claudia. Expanse, 

 about 2 inches. 



The life-history of this species has not as yet been thoroughly 

 worked out, but there is every reason to believe that the insect 

 in its early stages very closely approaches the Variegated Frit- 

 illary. It is a Southern form, and only occasionally is taken in 

 Arizona and southern California. It is common in Central and 

 South America. 



LUTHER'S SADDEST EXPERIENCE 



" Luther, he was persecuted, 

 Excommunicated, hooted, 

 Disappointed, egged, and booted ; 

 Yelled at by minutest boys, 

 Waked up by nocturnal noise, 

 Scratched and torn by fiendish cats, 

 Highwayed by voracious rats. 



" Oft upon his locks so hoary 

 Water fell from upper story ; 

 Oft a turnip or potato 

 Struck upon his back or pate, Oh ! 

 And wherever he betook him, 

 A papal bull was sure to hook him. 



" But the saddest of all 

 I am forced to relate : 



Of a diet of worms 



He was forced to partake 



Of a diet of worms 



For the Protestants' sake ; 



Munching crawling caterpillars, 



Beetles mixed with moths and millers;. 



Instead of butter, on his bread, 



A sauce of butterflies was spread. 



Was not this a horrid feast 



For a Christian and a priest? 



" Now, if you do not credit me, 

 Consult D'Aubigne's history. 

 You '11 find what I have told you 

 Most fearfully and sternly true." 



Yale Literary Magazine, 1852. 



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