HOW TO KNOW THE BUTTERFLIES 



in exposed places bits of the leaves and the thistle 

 spines bitten off for the purpose. The pretty 

 pearly, greenish or bluish chrysalid seamed with 

 black and banded with pale brown and set with 

 gilt tubercles may be found in the last nest of the 

 caterpillar. In the northern United States the 

 butterfly is double-brooded and winters in the 

 adult stage. In Southern countries the cosmop- 

 olite is on the wing all winter. 



Over the fields where the brown quails whistle, 



Over the ferns where the rabbits lie, 

 Floats the tremulous down of a thistle. 



Is it the soul of a butterfly ? 



Higginson. 



The Buckeye 

 Junonia ccenia (Ju-no'ni-a cce'ni-a) 



Plate XXIV, Fig. 3 



The wings above are blackish brown ; on each there are 

 two eye-spots, a large one and a small one ; the small one of 

 the fore wings is sometimes obscure. On the fore wings there 

 are two transverse fulvous bars in cell R + M, and an oblique 

 whitish band beyond these, which arises on the costal margin 

 and extends to the larger eye-spot. Expanse of wings two 

 inches to two and one-half inches. 



Caterpillar. — Length one and one-fourth inches. It is 

 dark gray in color with yellow lengthwise stripes and is spotted 



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