HOW TO KNOW THE BUTTERFLIES 



attraction for his perfume-loving lady Thecla. 

 The slug-like caterpillars eat holes in the leaves. 

 The species is single-brooded, and winters as a 

 newly hatched caterpillar. 



Beneath the summer sky 



From flower to flower let him fly; 



'Tis all that he wishes to do. 



Wordsworth. 



The Striped Hair-streak 



Thecla liparops (Thec'la lip'a-rops) 



Plate XXXIV, Fig. 4, 5, 6 



The upper surface of the wings is uniform blackish brown; 

 there is sometimes an obscure orange spot in cell Cu, of the 

 hind wings. The lower surface is dark brown, with a delicate 

 rufo-purplish tinge; the outer margin is edged with a narrow 

 white line; and the surface of each wing is crossed by from 

 three to five irregular white stripes, the number varying in the 

 different parts of the wing. The spot at the end of the discal 

 cells and the extra mesial band are very wide, and only 

 slightly darker than the remainder of the wing; and the spots 

 of the extra mesial band are discontinuous. Expanse of wings 

 one and one-fifth inches. 



Caterpillar. — Slug-shaped; length one-half inch; body 

 grass green with faint oblique stripes of yellow along the 

 sides. 



Food-plants. — Shadbush; blueberry; oak, and willow. 



This dark, brown Thecla is never common, 

 although it occurs almost everywhere in the 



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