134 STARLIGHT AND SUNSHINE. 
already been bestowed upon another widely different class of 
plants. This PAzlodice butterfly is one of our most accomplished 
botanical authorities —a botanist who knows beans, in very truth; 
for where is the genus of the bean tribe of vegetation that it has 
skipped in the choice of foster-plants for that future offspring? 
Lima beans, scarlet-runners, peas, sweet-peas, wild - bean, indigo, 
red clover, hop clover, white 
clover, puss clover, medic, 
medicago, lucern, melilot, 
rattlebox, vetch, and 
many more—all of 
the leguminous or / 71 
bean tribe. . 
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Sa Here is a near 
European relative of 
this same butterfly which 
feeds upon “ Coronilla and 
broom and other diadelphous 
plants,” and another allied spe- 
cies that feeds upon Cy¢zsus, all of 
which our botany of course includes 
: under Legumznose. It is interesting to 
Seas note further that certain other individ- 
uals in this same butterfly tribe, Codzas 
(exotic species in the heart of Brazil), continue the list among the 
tropical Legumznose ; all of which proves the close affinity be- 
tween the animated winged genus, Coézas, and the “winged” co- 
rollas of the pea-blossomed flowers. — 
In the agile white-banded “skipper” (Zztyruas) we have an- 
other remarkable illustration of discrimination among the same 
order of plants, for this butterfly, like most of its tribe, is partial 
to “a mess of beans,” and are indeed discriminating “skippers” 
of all but “pulse and pease.” The curious, big-headed caterpillar 
may be disclosed in its cocoon-like nest of leaves among the 
