HOW TO KNOW THE BUTTERFLIES 



Cu 3 . Expanse of wings one and one-third to one and one- 

 half inches. 



Caterpillar. — Length not quite three-fourths of an inch; 

 head black ; body downy, light yellowish green in color with 

 a dull green stripe down the back and seven oblique stripes 

 of the same color along the side. 



Food-plants. — Oak and milk-vetch. 



This is very much like the preceding species in 

 the blue-green metallic colors of its wings above 

 except that it has more of blue and less of green 

 in the sheen ; but as if to mark the species dis- 

 tinct beyond cavil, a white line runs across the 

 lower side of the front and hind wings, making a 

 distinct white M on the latter near the anal 

 angle, and this plainly written initial is punctuated 

 with a crimson period. While the white-m hair- 

 streak occasionally is found as far north as New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, it is essentially 

 a species of the South and frequents the live-oak 

 hummocks of that region. It is supposed to be 

 triple-brooded. 



I hold you at last in my hand, 



Exquisite child of the air ; 

 Can I ever understand 



How you grew to be so fair? 



Alice Freeman Palmer. 



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