SOME FLORIDA BUTTERFLIES. 155 



length. These beetles and the whip scorpion are the 

 only rewards of a half hour's search along this path- 

 way, the sand yielding little nourishment to attract 

 living forms. 



In the garden and orchard adjoining an old dwell- 

 ing on the river side of the peninsula butterflies are 

 plentiful. Among them are two old friends whom 



Fig. 49 The Painted Beauty. 



(After Harris.) 

 (The under side of wing ia shown on the right.) 



I first met fifteen years ago in Indiana, viz., the 

 painted beauty, Pyrameis hunter a Fab., which ranges 

 from Nova Scotia to Mexico; and the silver-spotted 

 skipper, Eudamus tityrus Fab., also a form of ex- 

 tended range. The latter are flitting in numbers 

 about the showy purple blossoms of the large flower- 

 ing verbena, V. auhletia. Here also I take a single 

 specimen of Pamphila maculata Edw., a dark brown 

 skipper, with wing expanse of one and a half inches, 

 whose range is confined to the Gulf states. Several 



