Show o BUTTERFLIES THE AN-GLE A very beautiful group of butterflies included among the angle wings is that known as the genus Though the books locate the finest species east of the they are not infrequent in the West from early spring to late and are as beautiful as they are In this group the butterfly is usually medium though sometimes it is quite The fore-wings are excavated on the inner and outer while the hind wings are They are and spotted and bordered with and several kinds nave a silvery spot on the underside of the hind Of this the following species are common in Utah and the THE VIOLET The Violet or Interrogation is of large say two with strongly angled and scythe-shaped fore It is tawny brownish spotted and bordered with and edged with pale This exquisite border fades to pinkish gray in specimens kept in cases exposed to the but it always a color study of the most delicate On the under side of the hind there is a remarkable figure in silver a shining with the the interrogation This mark almost as small as those used on the print of this is what gives to this insect its specific I means hook and our word grapple may be related to this the hook with a handle found by the straight tail is one way of remembering the outline of the LARVA AND Tre larva or baby butterfly of this exquisite beauty may be seen on elm trees or hop vines in June and and there also the interesting are found hanging head-end downwards from one end by a button or rug of bright pink The are light brown in color and very angular on one side like the butterfly's Silver and gold spots in two rows are found near the middle and close inspection often shows the firm tracery of lines that reveal the developing butterfly People call these hop merchants and claim that if there is much gold on the price of hops will be but if the silver spots predominate the price will be If the chrysalis is it swings back and the spines threatening its THE BABY As to the baby it is no beauty to most The when full grown is two inches long and of an inch thick the size of a third grade pupil's little finger but ever so much For it is brown in with many light and its back covered with spines that branch like little All sizes of them occur at the same time among the hop along with the empty which these caterpillars do not eat as many other kinds The gleaming tinged with green before the tiny caterpillar and like diamonds when are laid on the edge or tip or on the lower side of the hop or elm the shining surface-showing ten ribs when looked at with a The holes eaten in hop leaves are the work of these which feed on the under side of the and rest in a interrogation mark If you disturb the young caterpillar it will drop to the ground on a thread of so that it can climb back to its feeding There are two broods in the summer and the butterfly lives through the THE SILVER The Comma resembles the violet tip in shape and the violet and has a silvery instead of a on the underside of the hind Our form is called the Colorado AND Similar to the Violet Tip we have three other angle-wings known respectively as the the and the is a trifle smaller and but otherwise very similar to It has also the reversed interrogation mark of silver on the under side of the hind the wings are margined with brown rather than G. is paler than the with pale-brown wing and a silver caret on the rear under G. faunus has hind wings ornamented with a row of small dis yellowish otherwise it is like the RELATIVES OF ANGLE WINGS Let us by way of review that certain groups of our butterflies have their wings strongly cut into and are therefore called the angle First among these for beauty and popularity is the mourning cloak already described in The genus to which J K so the tortoise h their rich and va S J The upper side of riy i also with J. so that many have also a WESTERN TOR The California vanes in size from 2 and is deep above spotted and be Vanessa California Js moner Is- tortoise sheK inches is blackish brown with a low band near the wing Vanessa quite with i The related genus lack the angled banded wings with eye-like spots beneath spots First of these is P. dark red bar and white spots g fore wings and a broad a of red on the hind eg ing two The Red Admiral I The Red Admiral is aL the butterflies that hH live through the and one-half inches which are L hinder pair a brilliant This is continued across the lift the fore which a white broken band ML midway between the red tip of the On the hind wings and jLe forewings are and dark wavy market comes from its winter place late in lays in June singly on the of avoiding the Win five or six days a spiny is which feeds Ilk leaves and grows a Ht-an inch in This Si soon climbs to the and lining one of draws its edges Mm to form a canopy where Ks solitary and It feeds at night on stance of the leaf forming but spares the After it mother leaf and makes a somewhat moult it seeks a new Sri as regularly proceeds to out of house and till it finally passes into the chrysalis to emerge as a butterfly early in These butterflies lay eggs that hatch a second brood by September and fly about till cold weather of October drives them to find a hiding place till They may often be caught on sliced apples drying in the The brownish over an inch long when is is not destroyed as other caterpillars by small wasp-like hymenoptera that sting laying an egg in its body as they do The eggs hatch into tiny which up the body of the and the butterfly |