. As nature shows them : moths and butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains : with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. Lepidoptera; Nature prints. LYC^NID^. 187 this species collected in Wellesley, Massachusetts, during May of 1897, I took no very striking varieties of any kind, but in the same year during August I collected five hundred more, with the result of ob- taining half-a-dozen well-marked specimens of the dark variety, l)ut not one of the light. Whether this is a sufficient number to give an idea of the percent
. As nature shows them : moths and butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains : with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. Lepidoptera; Nature prints. LYC^NID^. 187 this species collected in Wellesley, Massachusetts, during May of 1897, I took no very striking varieties of any kind, but in the same year during August I collected five hundred more, with the result of ob- taining half-a-dozen well-marked specimens of the dark variety, l)ut not one of the light. Whether this is a sufficient number to give an idea of the percentage of such variations I cannot say, but one would infer from this that the second brood is much more liable to. Ulirysophamis hypoiilaeas, var. variation than the first, and that the light variety with almost no spots is of much rarer occurrence than the dark variety. In some of the dark variety the black almost covers the entire wing, making the insect look like a totally different species. The caterpillar of this butterfly is longer and narrower than is usual with tlie larva of butterflies of this family, is covered with hairs, is reddish, pinkish or greenish in color and feeds on the common sorrel. The chrysalis is short and stumpy, like that of most of the species of the family. Mr. Packard says of the chrysalis : " The head and thorax, includ- ino- the wino-s, is dull reddish-brown dotted with black. The abdo- men is much lighter with very distinct and irregular black dots. The clnysalis is usually suspended under a ; There are two or more broods in a season. The geographical range of the species is wide, being found along the Atlantic coast southward, throughout the middle states and tln-ough Canada, west into Washington and in California. A very closely allied if not the same species occurs throughout Europe. Our largest and handsomest species of this genus is Chri/sopJuams thoe, and an exceedingly fine butterfly it is, an ornament to any cab- inet. The
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