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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
tomed to spend a part of each summer camping. Hundreds of these 
insects were congregated on the shore, and the birds, frogs and toads 
were reaping a harvest. They are usually exceedingly plentiful near 
Sunapee Lake, in New Hampshire, during the latter part of June, 
and make an interesting picture as they rise in a swarm from the 
lake shore on being disturbed. But they never look more rich and 
beautiful than when flying by twos and threes about in the sunshine 
with the fresh young leaves of the oaks for a background. 
Papilio glaucus. 
In the southern and western States a beautiful dimorphic form of 
the female only of this species may occasionally be taken. It is 
called Papilio cjlaucus , and a truly magnificent insect it is. 
An idea of its size and shape will be had from the accompanying 
plate, but its rich black wings stippled with blue over a large part of 
