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and fatiguing work, but I enjoyed it. The miners seemed to enjoy 
it too, for once when I missed my footing and rolled down a steep 
bank into a puddle of muddy water, a roar of laughter went up 
from half a hundred lusty throats. But I didn’t care ; they had their 
laugh and I had the butterflies. I only wish I now had a few of the 
dozens of beautiful anthocharis I captured that morning. 
Anthocharis olympia has no orange spot at the apex of the fore¬ 
wing in either sex, but it is a very pretty little butterfly nevertheless. 
The upper side is creamy white with brown markings, arranged as 
shown in the illustration, the mottlings of the under side of the 
lower wings showing distinctly through. The under side is mottled 
with olive green on a white ground, giving a very pretty effect. It 
is found in Texas. 
Antliocliaris genutia. 
Anthocharis genutia is found from New England south, although 
I have never seen it very abundant anywhere. This insect can be 
Antliocliaris genutia. Under side. 
readily recognized by the hooked or falcate forward wing. It is 
very frail and of feeble flight. The insect is white, the tip of the 
forward wings of the male being orange, while in the female it is 
