NYMPHALIDiE. 
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under side the ground color is not so dark. The rows of light spots 
are more numerous and the reddish spots along the .margins are so 
close together as to make an almost continuous band. The inner 
third of the wing is blotched with a number of large reddish spots 
Melitsea pliaeton. 
with light yellow spots surrounded with black rings between them. 
The body is dark brown below with reddish spots on the abdomen, 
and the legs and palpi are reddish. 
Melitsea phaeton. 
This butterfly, although rarely seen except by those who know 
where it is to be found and are in diligent search for it, is not rare 
in New England. It is extremely local in its distribution, being- 
found about meadows or swampy districts, and usually in numbers 
