PREHISTORIC BOTANISTS. 
families represented in the list, Composzte and Malvacee. 
Other entomologists give the following plants: Mal- 
lows of all kinds, althea, selybum chiccory, helianthus, 
marianum, velvet-leaf, and okra, 
and it may be looked for with 
confidence upon the cotton plant. 
The Phaeton butterfly of 
my illustration is partial 
to the Figwort family, 
its list of selec- 
tions chiefly %, 
comprising the 
turtle-head, toad- 
flax, schrophularia, 
moth-mullein, and 
painted-cup. The 
latter, with the scar- 
let leaves posing as 
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blossoms, no one 
but an expert would 
think of associating 
with the other plants 
. mentioned. But I learn 
from Scudder that this 
caterpillar is also found on 
the honeysuckle—a poser, this, 
in truth—were it not that it 
seems a clear case of heedless- 
ness, an egg that was left while 
the butterfly was sipping the honey 
tubes, of course. 
My experience has never disclosed the 
weird-looking eye-spotted caterpillars of the 
Trowlus butterfly, or blue swallow-tail, upon 
any other foliage than those of sassafras and 
spice-wood, the only two Northern species of 
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