. Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; . a, foreleg of a brush-footed butterfly entirely aborted ; b, of Lyctziia, male, tarsus one-jointed. the NymphalidcB, containing moderate-sized or large species, and the Lyccenidis, containing small species, in which the colors are blue or coppery, or have the under sides marked with fine, thread-like lines. They are the "blues," "coppers," and '' hair-streaks.'' Among our most common species of the first family is the "milk-weed butterfly,"
. Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; . a, foreleg of a brush-footed butterfly entirely aborted ; b, of Lyctziia, male, tarsus one-jointed. the NymphalidcB, containing moderate-sized or large species, and the Lyccenidis, containing small species, in which the colors are blue or coppery, or have the under sides marked with fine, thread-like lines. They are the "blues," "coppers," and '' hair-streaks.'' Among our most common species of the first family is the "milk-weed butterfly," Danais archippus, quite a large red- brown insect, with the wing-veins broadly black marked. It becomes abundant in late summer and fall, and its caterpillar, green in color, marked with black lines, and furnished with rather long, black, hair-like tentacles, may be often seen feeding upon milk-weeds. This species will serve to typify the family to which it belongs, and is easily raised by any one curious to watch its transformations. If the caterpillar be confined with a sufficient supply of fresh leaves, it will grow to about an inch and a half in length, will then fasten itself by means of its hind feet to a little pad of silk, and will change to a chunky, bright-green chrysalis, or pupa, marked with small golden spots, one of the prettiest objects that can be imagined. In a few days the color will be-
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