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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
This insect is very common near the city of Para, at the 
mouth of the Amazon. Here it inhabits grassy districts, and when 
alarmed rises but a short distance above tire grass tops in its 
Anartia jatroplise. Under side. 
flight. It is slow on the wing and is not difficult to capture. It 
is found within the borders of our country, in southern Florida and 
Texas. 
Junonia is a genus containing some very prettily marked and 
spotted butterflies. Most of the species are found within the tropics 
both of the Old and the New Worlds. 
One of the handsomest species of this genus is Junonia ccenia. 
It varies a good deal in coloring, especially on the under side, which 
in some specimens is a yellowish gray and in others a maroon gray. 
Also in the size of the eye-like spots of the upper side there is a good 
deal of variation. This insect is sometimes found as far north as 
Massachusetts, numbers having been taken the last two seasons in 
the town of Medford in that State. In the south and west it is 
sometimes very abundant, and I have seen it near Stockton, in Cali¬ 
fornia, during July, one of the commonest of butterflies. It haunts 
open fields, and among the low flowering plants it delights to sport. 
Although a good flyer, it is not very shy. The caterpillar is dark, 
varying from brown to brownish purple, darker on the back, and 
having pale strides on the sides. It is adorned with numerous 
branching spines along the sides and back. It feeds on the leaves 
of the plantain. 
