THE GOSSAMER-WINGED BUTTERFLIES 



like the head of a minute monkey. There are 

 three broods of the wanderer in the North, and it 

 winters as a chrysalis. It is found from Maine 

 to northern Florida and westward to Kansas. 



" Whose butterfly," I said, " are you, 

 And what sweet thing do you pursue ? " 



Stoddard. 



The Bronze Copper 



Chrysophamis thoe (Chrys-o-pha'nus tho'e) 



Plate XXXVI, Fig. 3, 4 



In the male the wings are coppery brown above, spotted 

 with black, and with a broad orange-red band on the outer 

 margin of the hind wings; below, the front wings are very 

 pale orange, and the hind wings gray, both spotted with 

 black, the hind wings with an orange band on outer rear- 

 ing. The female differs in having the front wings orange-red 

 above with prominent black spots, and in being of a brighter 

 orange below than in the male. Expanse of wings one and 

 one-half inches or more. 



Caterpillar. — Slug-shaped, nearly an inch long. Color 

 of body bright yellowish green, with a dark green stripe down 

 the back. 



Food-plants. — Curled dock, some species of knotweed, 

 prickly ash, etc. 



The female of this species looks like a giant 

 American copper ; the male has reddish-brown 

 wings except for a marginal border of orange on 



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