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families represented in the list, Composites and Malvacea. 

 Other entomologists give the following plants : Mal- 

 lows of all kinds, althea, silybum chiccory, helianthus, 

 marianum, velvet- leaf, and okra, 

 and it may be looked for with 

 confidence upon the cotton plant. 



The Phaeton butterfly of 

 my illustration is partial /R 



to the Figwort family, '^ . aL^jM. / 

 its list of selec- 

 tions chiefly 

 comprising the 

 turtle -head, toad- 

 flax, schrophularia, 

 moth-mullein, and 

 painted-cup. The 

 latter, with the scar- 

 let leaves posing as 



blossoms, no one 

 but an expert would 

 think of associating 

 with the other plants 

 mentioned. But I learn 

 from Scudder that this 

 caterpillar is also found on 

 the honeysuckle a poser, this, 

 in truth were it not that it 

 seems a clear case of heedless- 

 ness, an egg that was left while 

 the butterfly was sipping the honey 

 tubes, of course. 



My experience has never disclosed the 

 weird-looking eye-spotted caterpillars of the 

 Troilus butterfly, or blue swallow-tail, upon 

 any other foliage than those of sassafras and 

 spice -wood, the only two Northern species of 



