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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
dark brown and white, the shades being distributed in an irregular 
manner. The base of the wing is dark brown, then comes an uneven 
band of lighter brown, outside of which is a wide band of dark brown 
made up of numerous irregular markings. Beyond this the wing is 
lighter, with many white streaks, the brown markings again growing 
more numerous toward the outer margin. The scales are not thickly 
laid on the wings, and on holding a specimen toward the light it will 
be seen to be semi-transparent, particularly the lower portion of the 
upper wings. The thorax is hairy below. The antennse are spotted 
with white and brown, and the slender club is reddish. 
From the middle to the latter part of July this butterfly may be 
seen in numbers near the top of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 
and one or two other points of almost equal elevation. It is worth a 
climb of several thousand feet to see this interesting species in its 
bleak and wind-swept home. The weather is frequently very cold 
and windy here, and it often hails and even snows in the summer 
time, but let the sun come out for half an hour, and out will come 
the butterflies as if they were flitting about a lowland meadow and 
a snow squall was the last thing to be thought of. They hug the 
ground pretty closely while on the wing, but they are not rapid or 
strong flyers, and it is ,a wonder that ere this the}' have not been 
swept out of existence. The larva is said to feed on lichens. 
tiatyrus alope makes its appearance early in July, and is usually 
very abundant by the middle of that month in low lands, along 
brooks or ponds fringed with a line of bushes or trees. It is not a 
