HOW TO KNOW THE BUTTERFLIES 



rence. There are records of its having appeared 

 in swarms ; but usually it is sufficiently rare in 

 any locality to be considered a prize by the butter- 

 fly hunter. Its range is through the eastern 

 United States with the exception of northern 

 New England and southern Florida. It haunts 

 river-banks and marshy places in forests and does 

 not disdain shrubby roadsides ; it is also very 

 fond of visiting raspberry blossoms. The cater- 

 pillar has the habit of rearing the front end of its 

 body and remaining motionless while at rest, like 

 a sphinx caterpillar. It is a most adaptable crea- 

 ture. Mr. Edwards found that if its food-plant 

 dried up it changed to a chrysalid after its third 

 molt, when it was little more than half grown. 

 From such pigmy chrysalids came genuine butter- 

 flies, though somewhat small and pale. It is sup- 

 posed the species winters as a butterfly. 



Yet I remember, when the butterfly 

 Went flickering about me like a flame 

 That quenched itself in roses suddenly. 



James Whitcomb Riley. 



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