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and brown coat, under which his seal 
brown waistcoat appeared, and the cut of 
his garments suggested the curving blade 
of a sickle. The elm tree boughs are his 
swinging cradle, though he sometimes in¬ 
dulges in nettle or hop, as a bit of a relisb. 
About midsummer the parsley had be¬ 
come the prey of some brilliant green 
caterpillars, crossed with bars of jet black 
and gold; gorgeous creatures and beauti¬ 
ful, if one could forget his natural an¬ 
tipathy to crawling things. However, as 
the parsley was rapidly disappearing 
under the voracious appetites of the in¬ 
vaders, they were disposed of as quickly 
as possible. Some, however, must have 
escaped, for we found one specimen of 
the Papilio asterias, or common Eastern 
swallow-tail, and were obliged to confess 
that he was much more attractive in his 
winged form than when gorging himself 
upon our parsley. All black with a 
double row of yellow spots edging both 
wings, and a touch of dull blue and or¬ 
ange near the swallow-tails, he was one 
of the most conspicuous of the flower 
visitors. 
The Papilio turnus was our next cap¬ 
tive, rightfully called the Lordly Turnus, 
or the Tiger Swallow-tail. His large size 
and his brilliant yellow color, with tiger¬ 
like markings of black, make him a com¬ 
manding figure in the butterfly kingdom. 
He must have found his way to our gar¬ 
den from the park, where alders and 
willows, which are his food, fringe the 
edge of the lake. 
One of the most difficult butterflies to 
classify was the little Batesi phyciodes, or 
Bates Crescent-spot. There are so many 
of these butterflies with nearly the same 
markings that we found it a difficult mat¬ 
ter to determine where he belonged. We 
found only this one specimen in our gar¬ 
den, and concluded it must be a rare one, 
since the early stages were said to be 
unknown. 
Of the tortoise-shell butterflies we 
found only one, the Vanessa milberti, 
with his brown shell-like coat and orange- 
red band. A little fellow, resembling- 
somewhat the red Admiral, and living 
upon the same sharp food, the nettle. 
With the late fall, when leaves were 
brown and squirrels and partridges were 
out, came the Hunter’s butterfly ( Pyra - 
meis hunt era) not with gun and shot, 
but sailing upon softly tinted wings of 
mottled orange above, but underneath 
holding a surprise in the soft grays of 
leafless woods and bare branches, and the 
dull pinks of faded leaves — a brave little 
Hunter finding only here and there a 
flower-cup of nectar to quench his thirst, 
but facing the inevitable cold and frost of 
winter with dancing wings. 
There were many other tiny winged 
creatures that were caught and studied, 
during that summer vacation; the dragon 
flies and cicadas and katydids and the 
moths that flew only at night. Only one, 
perhaps, is worthy of mention, the beauti¬ 
ful Ilia Underwing, whose outer wings 
so closely resemble the bark of the tree, 
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