BUTTERFLIES OF THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK CITY 
butterfly becomes scarce, and remains so until the advent of the 
second brood, in August. The female deposits her eggs in a cluster 
around a twig near the petiole of a leaf. The caterpillars are gre- 
garious in habits, living together in companies. The first brood of 
caterpillars appears in June and the second in August. The butterfly 
is velvety brown with pale yellow border. It is distributed over the 
entire breadth of the northern hemisphere below the Arctic circle, as 
far as the thirteenth parallel of latitude. The caterpillar lives on elm, 
willow, poplar and hackberrvy (Celtts). 
A group of this species is on exhibition in the Halli of North 
American Forestry. 
35. Thistle Butterfly (Pyrameis cardut). 
A cosmopolitan species, very common everywhere. In this vicinity 
it is doubled-brooded, and the caterpillar lives snugly within a few 
leaves spun together with silken threads. It lives on the thistle, 
burdock, sunflower and hollyhock. 
36. Painted Beauty or Hunter’s Butterfly (Pyramets huntera). 
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