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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
recall with pleasure an early morning ride during August over the 
rich alluvial plains along the Mississippi River, where hundreds if 
not thousands of these insects were to be seen. As we jogged 
along over the country road, the dark, luxuriant, almost tropical 
forest on both sides, the scene was enlivened by these butterflies as 
Terias nicippe. Female. Under side. 
they rose in numbers from the grass, sometimes appearing like a 
small cloud about us. They were not wild, and soon settled again 
among the grasses by the road side. This insect is rarely seen 
further north than the latitude of New York City, and is most 
abundant in the southern states, whence it ranges south into Mexico, 
Central America and South America. The larva feeds on the cassia 
and clover. 
Terias jucunda. 
A tiny and very delicate creature is Terias jucunda. The colors 
are bright yellow and black, disposed as shown in the illustration, 
while the under side, particularly of the lower wings, is very light 
or almost white, the upper pair being light yellow bordered by light 
