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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Twice a year our pastures and road-sides are enlivened 
by great numbers of the small yellow Pliilodice butterfly 
(^Colias Pidlodiee of Go- 
dart). (Fig. 100, male*, 
Fig. 101, female.) They 
begin to appear towards 
the end of April, are 
common throuo;hout the 
month of Mav, after which 
no more are seen till near 
the end of July, when a 
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new brood becrins to come 
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forth, and some of them 
continue till late in the 
autumn. Their wino-s are 
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yellow, with a black hind 
border, which in the fe¬ 
males is quite broad on 
the fore wings, and spotted with yellow ; the fringes of the 
wings, the antennae, and the shanks are red ; the fore wings 
have a small narrow black spot on both sides near the mid¬ 
dle ; the hind wings have a round orange-colored spot in 
the middle of the upper side, which on the under side is 
replaced by a large and a small silvery spot close together, 
and surrounded by a rust-colored ring. 
The males are generally smaller than the females. The 
caterpillars live upon clover, medicago, and lucerne, and I 
have occasionally found them on pea-vines. They are green, 
slightly downy, paler or yellowish at the sides, and grow to 
the length of about one inch and a half. They suspend 
themselv*es to the stems of plants by the tail and a trans¬ 
verse loop, in the same way as the preceding, species. The 
chrysalis (Fig. 102) is straw-colored, not angulated at the 
sides, with a slight prominence over the thorax, and the 
anterior extremity ends ‘ in a short and blunt point. The 
genus Colias^ to which the Philodice butterfly belongs, is 
Fig. 100. 
