Pyrameis cardui, Linn—The Thistle Butterfly. 
Expands from two and a half to two and three-fourths inches. 
Wings tawny or reddish brown above, with a tinge of rose, spotted 
with black and white. Hind wings yellowish-brown underneath, mar¬ 
bled with white, a little blue and a row of five eye-like spots near the 
outer margin. The caterpillars feed on the same kind of plants as 
the preceding. 
Junonia lavinia, Cram.—The Lavinia Butterfly. 
This specimen belongs to the Southern States and is found in the 
southern portion of Illinois. The wings are dark brown above, each 
with a large and a small eye-like spot on both sides. The fore wings 
have two orange spots in the discal cell, and a whitish band crossing 
obliquely and including the hind eye-like spot, and a reddish band on 
the hind wflngs near the outer margin. Underside pale. Expands 
two inches and a half. 
Limenitis Ursula, Fabr —The Ursula Butterfly. 
The caterpillar of this butterfly is of a brownish color, more or less 
variegated with white on the sides, and with green above, and has 
two barbed brown horns on the second segment. It feeds on the wil¬ 
low, scrub-oak, Siberian crab, cherry and gooseberry. The butterfly 
expands from three to four inches, the wings of a blue black color, 
with the outer half of the hind wings blue. Around the scalloped 
outer margin are four alternate stripes of blue and black; the inner 
blue stripe the lightest, and about three small orange spots near the 
anex. Under side, the black duller, the blue border stripes lighter, 
and an additional border row of orange spots, with several orange 
spots near the base of the wings. 
Limenitis disippus, Godt.—The Disippus Butterfly. 
Expands from two and a half to four inches. The principal differ¬ 
ence between this and the Archippus ubtterfly is, there is a black line 
a little beyond the middle of the hind wings parallel with the outer 
border, and the discal cells of both wings are open. Caterpillars, pale 
brown, more or less variegated with white on the sides and with green 
on the back, the barbed brown horns on the second segment, shorter 
than in the Ursula larva. Feeds on poplar, willow and plum, and 
there are two broods in a season. 
