THE GOSSAMER-WINGED BUTTERFLIES 



The Wanderer 



Feniseca tarquinius (Fe-nis'e-ca tar-quin'i-us) 



Plate XXXVI, Fig. i, 2 



This butterfly can be readily distinguished from all other 



Lycagnids in our fauna by the fact that vein M, of the fore 



wings coalesces with radius for a considerable distance beyond 



the apex of cell R + M. The upper surface of the wings is 



dark brown, with a large, irregular orange-yellow patch on 



the disk of the fore wing, and one of the same color next the 



anal angle of the hind wing. 



Caterpillar. — Length about half an inch ; body rather 

 pointed at the ends and wide in the middle. Color brown 

 marked with brownish stripes. 



Food. — Woolly plant-lice, especially those on the alder. 



If there is a place in this world more replete 

 with contentment than a path by an alder-fringed 

 brook we have failed to find it ; and when we 

 wander along such a path we always look out for 

 our fellow wanderer, the little copper butterfly 

 with dark blotches on its wings. We usually find 

 it either dashing about in quick, nervous flight 

 above the alders, or resting on a leaf with wings 

 expanded taking a sun bath, a special butterfly 

 luxury. The wanderer is a good and helpful friend 

 of the alders, and it plays about one selfsame spot 

 all its little life. There are a great many kinds 

 of blight in this world ; there are blighted hopes 

 and blighted hearts, but an alder blight consists 



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