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pus; missippus B.; tawny Y.; above paler, below 

 with a broad B. border, spotted with white and black 

 veins; three to three and a half inches, L. Arthemis; 

 has a broad white curved band crossing- both wings; 

 male has O. spots on hind wing-s next border. Danais 

 erripus; the archippus B't. ; knob of antennae long- and 

 curved; tawn}" O. above, nankin Y. below; three and 

 three-fourths to four and a half inches. Arg-ynnis has 

 edo-es of wing-s entire. A. idalia, the Idalia B't. has 

 pearly W. crescents beneath and seventeen W. spots 

 under each hind wing-; tawny O., spotted with B. 

 above; three and a half inches. A. aphrodite has sil- 

 ver}' W. spots under tip of fore wings, and more than 

 twenty larg-e ones under hind wing-; two and three- 

 fourths to three and a half inches. Grapta has the 

 wings jag-g-ed and toothed on marg-in and tineh' col- 

 ored. Several species are common. Vanessa has 

 wing-s less jagg-ed than g-rapta. Vanessa antiopia is 

 purplish brown with a broad pale-bulf border. The 

 larva are black and spiny and dotted with very small 

 white spots. It lives throug-h the winter, and may be 

 seen on Avarm da^'s flying- in sunn}' places in the woods. 



We have many other butterflies, most of them 

 smaller than those mentioned, but many of them very 

 beautiful. Among* these the Lycasmdas or Azure Bt. 

 family, ■ found about woods and the Hesperids or 

 Skipper family, noted for their jerky, irregular 

 movements, are most prominent. Butterflies have 

 knobbed antennae and wings erect when at rest, and 

 fly by day. Moths fly by nig^ht, and the antennae are 

 of various forms. 



The Sphinged^ or Hawk Moth family is a large 

 and well marked section of the Lepidoptera. The 

 wings are narrow for their leng'th and they fly very 

 rapidly, their movements much resembling- a humming- 



