OUR COMMON BUTTERFLIES 





THE COMMON WOOD-NYMPH {Satyrus alope) 



Female and Male 



THE COMMON GRASS-NYMPH {Satyrodes canthus) on the left 

 THE LITTLE WOOD-SATYR {Neonympha eurytiis) on the right 



The common XN'mphs have eye spots on the upper side of the 

 front wings. The general color is brownish. That of the Common 

 Wood-nymph is dark but the eye spots of the front wings are set in a 

 band of j-ellowish. There are not usually more than two, if any, spots 

 on the upper surface of each hind wing. 



The Connnon Grass-nymph has a row of four small spots on the 

 upper surface of each front wing and the Little Wood-satyr has but 

 two. The brown of both is rather pale and both have the spots on the 

 upper surface of the hind wings "eyed." The young of Nymphs and 

 Satyrs live upon grasses. 



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