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die of each wing there is a pale band edged with zigzag, dark 
brown lines. The larva lives upon apple, cherry, oak, birch, 
maple, and ash. When full grown it measures two and 
one half inches in length and one half inch in breadth. 
The upper side is slate-gray, mottled with black, with two 
transverse scarlet bands, one on the second and one on the 
third thoracic segments. There is a black spot at each end 
and in the middle of each of these bands. The larva is 
found during July and August. It is said that the cocoons 
are attached to limbs like those of Tolype; but the larvae of 
this species which we have bred made their cocoons between 
leaves, or in the folds of the muslin bag enclosing the limb 
upon which they were feeding. The species passes the 
winter in the pupa state; 
jit, and the moth appears in 
y l June, when it lays its 
v * eggs upon the leaves of 
v, the trees it infests. 
Superfamily Hesperiina 
(Hes-per-i-i'na). 
The Skippers . 
The Skippers are so 
called on account of their 
peculiar mode of flight. 
They fly in the daytime 
and dart suddenly from 
place to place. When at 
rest most species hold the 
wings erect in a vertical 
position like butterflies; 
in some the fore wings 
are thus held while the 
hind wings are extend- 
Fig. 445.—Wings of Epargyreus tityrus. horizontally J and a 
few extend both pairs of wings horizontally. The antennae 
