BUTTERFLIES OF THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK CITY 



butterfly becomes scarce, and remains so until the advent o! the 



second brood, in August. The female deposits her eggs in a cluster 

 around a tw the petiole of a Leaf. The caterpillars are gre- 



in habits, living together in companies. The first broo 

 Lppears in June and the second in August. The butterfly 



is velvety brown with pale yellow border. It is distributed over tin- 

 entire breadth of the northern hemisphere below the Arctic circle 



IS the thirteenth parallel of latitude. The caterpillar lives on elm, 

 willow, poplar and hackberry (( 'eltis). 



^roup of tin- on exhibition in the Hall of North 



ncan Forest rv. 



35. Thistle Butterfly (Pyrameis car dux). 



•smopolitan species, very common everywhere. In this vicinity 

 doubled-brooded, and the caterpillar lives snugly within a few 

 leaves spun together with silken threads. It lives on the thistle, 

 burdock, sunflower and hollvhock. 



36. Painted Beauty r Hunter's Butterfly hunter a). 



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