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Golden-banded Skipper
Butterfly.--The figure in the plate will enable the instant identification of this beautiful species, which, on the under side, has the hind wings banded much as in E. proteus. Expanse, 2.00 inches.
Early Stages.--What little we know of these is based mainly upon the observations of Abbot, and there is an opportunity here for some young naturalist to render a good service to science by rearing the insect through all stages from the egg. The habits of the larva are not greatly different from those of allied species.
A. cellus is found in the Virginias, and thence southward and westward to Arizona and Mexico. It is common in the Carolinas.