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Largely Yellow Butterflies 



There are several si)eeie.s of fellow l)Utterllie.s wiiieli are elo^ely 

 related to the White just deserihed. I'liex- nearly all feed on elo\-er 

 and its allies. It should 1)0 remarked i)arenthetieall\- that when the 

 food of a speeies is mentioned we mean the food of its }()ung, for 

 adult butterflies do not eat. At most they sip water from wayside 

 pools or neetar from flowers through a eoiled tube-like mouth which 

 entirely lacks teeth or even jaws. 



THE CLOUDED SULPHUR {Colias philodicc) 

 Male above; Female (upper and under sides), below 



THE LITTLE SULPHUR ( Tn-ia^ Lisa) 

 Upperand undersides 



