Ill 



A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING 



10 hatch from the egg, to attain growth 

 through steady attention to eating, to 

 reach maturity and produce eggs for 

 another generation, are the necessities 

 of insect life. The ways and means 

 of accomplishing these things success- 

 fully is a problem which is partially 

 solved by the habits of the species, and partially by 

 the efforts of the individual. The habits of a species 

 comprise the wisdom stored up in the experience of that 

 species during thousands of years; the habits of a 

 species is the pathway by which it has struggled up 

 to the ranks of the " fittest '' which have survived. 



No insect history better epitomizes the history of a 

 race than does that of the Viceroy Butterfly {Basilar- 

 chia arcMppus), a beautiful insect which in early sum- 

 mer makes our open fields and marshy meadows brilliant 

 with the flashing of orange-red wings in the sunshine. 

 The early stages of the Viceroy have been worked out 

 in detail and given to the world through the careful 

 and patient labors of Dr. S. H. Scudder. 



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