HOW TO KNOW THE BUTTERFLIES 



The Banded Elfin 

 Incisalia niphon (In-ci-sa'li-a ni'phon) 

 Plate XXXV, Fig. 7, 8, 9 

 See description under the brown elfin above. 

 Caterpillar. — Slug-shaped; length a little more than 

 half an inch. It has a little brown head ; the downy body 

 is green, with two lengthwise whitish stripes along each side. 

 Food-plant. — Pine. 



The banded elfin is dull dark brown above, but 

 beneath, especially on the hind wings, it looks like 

 an elfin checker-board made in varying shades of 

 brown with white dividing lines here and there. 

 This butterfly is an active little creature and loves 

 the open spaces in the pine woods. Its home is 

 in the northeastern United States, and it has not 

 been taken west of New York. It is single- 

 brooded, and the caterpillars require almost the 

 entire season to mature. 



The Coral Hair-streak 



Strymoii titus (Stry'mon ti'tus) 



Plate XXXV, Fig. 10, 11, 12 



The upper surface of the wings is dark brown, with or with- 

 out an outer marginal row of orange spots or an indistinct 

 orange band. The discal stigma is present in the males, and 

 the outline of the hind wings differs in the two sexes. The 

 under surface is a soft slaty brown, sometimes tinged with vio- 



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