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Title: The butterfly hunters
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Year: [yoursearch.cgi?tags=bookyear1868 1868] ([yoursearch.cgi?tags=bookdecade1860 1860s])
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THE BUTTERFLY HUNTERS. lOI
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Hipparchia Eurytris. and flutters low among the bushes, as if to hide from even the dayhght. It is especially the Quaker butterfly, for the • color of its wings is a fine Quaker drab," shaded a little darker toward the shoulders. Near the margin of all the wings is a band a shade light- er, and on the band, on each wing, are two eye-like black spots surrounded by a ring of very pale drab. The un- der side is precisely like the upper. The wings of this lit- tle butterfly are very delicate and fine in texture, and so easily soiled or broken as to make it difficult to capture without injury. The Eurytris butterfly is found in July, and sometimes as late as the last of August. It expands about one inch and a half. " The largest of these butterflies is the Hipparchia Alope. Its wings expand two inches, and even larger specimens have been captured. I have one in my collection measur- ing over two inches and a half; but you have found none over the usual size. The wings are all dull brown. Across the centre of the fore wings is a broad ochre-yellow band, on which are two black spots, with a light blue centre. The hind wings are scalloped and ornamented with a row of black dots round the margin, outside of which is a band of lighter brown than the rest of the wing. The under