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state, there are probably two broods, the second passing the winter 
as chrysalids. 
The caterpillars are said to eat the leaves of the lilac, spice-bush, 
and prickly ash, quite as well as sassafras. They do not usually occur 
in sufficient numbers to do serious injury. 
Papilio Turnus, Linn.—The Turnus Butterfly. 
We have another butterfly belonging to this genus, larger than 
those before described, in which the ground color of both wings is 
bright yellow, instead of black. The principal ornamentation is in 
black, and is distributed as follows, supposing the wings to be. ex¬ 
panded : A narrow border of black around the edges of the wings 
next to the body and the costal or front edge, but the black border 
along the outer margins of the wings is broad and contains a row of 
more or less conspicuous yellow dots; in the hind wings these dots are 
rather large lunules. The yellow space surrounded by this black 
border is marked by four black bands running from the costa back¬ 
ward, as follows: the first crossing both wings to near the anal angle, 
where it turns and unites with the smaller black border; the second 
reaching the second vein below the discal cell on the front wing; the 
third crossing the end of the discal cell, the fourth about the same 
length as the third. 
The marginal sinuses in both wings are edged with yellow, and it 
has two orange spots near the anal angle, with the same blue spots 
that are found in the Asterias butterfly. 
Besides this, in the more southern part of the State, there is found 
a dimorphic female variety, called glauca , that has the wings black, 
with the yellow marginal dots smaller, and the blue spots on the hind 
wings more prominent. The black bands that cross the wings are 
plainly to be seen on the underside. The sides of the body, in the 
ordinary form, are yellow, but in this black form, the whole body is 
black, as well as the wings. 
The caterpillar of the Turnus butterfly lives upon the leaves of the 
apple, wild cherry and thorn, and folds them up in the same manner 
as does that of the Troilus butterfly. When full grown it is from two 
to two and a half inches in length, of a green color above, with light 
dots in rows, and a yellow eye-like spot, with a black center, on each 
side of the third segment, a yellow band across the fourth segment, 
and the head, underside and legs pink. The chrysalis is brown, 
formed in the usual way of the rest of the genus, and has a conical 
point on the breast. 
Papilio Cresphontes, Cram.—The Cresphontes or Thoas Butterfly. 
This butterfly, the largest and most beautiful species of the genus 
found with us, is more generally known as Papilio Thoas , or the Thoas 
butterfly. 
