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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
The ground color on the upper wings is brownish orange with heavy 
black bands. The lower pair are of a darker shade with spots and 
markings of black. The body is brown with a slightly greenish 
tinge on the thorax. Beneath the ground color of the upper wings 
and the upper half of the lower wings is buff yellow, the lower half 
Eurema letlie. Under side. 
being wood brown. Over both sets of wings are numerous brown 
markings, the general character of which may be readily understood 
by reference to the illustration. The insects from which these figures 
were made were taken in Colombia by my brothers. The butterfly 
is a strong and rapid flyer, having a stout thorax with powerful mus¬ 
cles for the rapid movement of the wings. 
Another genus of butterflies, whose home is tropical America, is 
Anartia. There are but three or four species belonging to this 
genus, and but one inhabits the southern part of the United States. 
These insects are of medium size and plain in colors, though not 
without a certain beauty. 
Our native species, Anartia jatrophce, is light gray with brown 
and black markings and spots, and having a reddish or yellowish 
brown double row of crescent-shaped spots following the outer mar¬ 
gins of both sets of wings. Individuals vary a good deal in intensity 
of coloring, some being almost white in ground color, the outer 
margins of the wings being yellowish, while others are dark brown 
along the margins, with but little red or yellow. The under side is 
light creamy white shading to gray, with pale bars of brown and the 
