Mexican Fritillary

Euptoieta hegesia

The upper side is marked very much as in the preceding species, but all the lines are finer and somewhat more regular and the basal and discal areas of the hind wings are without dark spots in most specimens. The under side is less mottled and more uniformly dark rusty-brown than in E. claudia. Expanse, about 2 inches.

The life-history of this species has not as yet been thoroughly worked out, but there is every reason to believe that the insect in its early stages very closely approaches the Variegated Fritillary. It is a Southern form, and only occasionally is taken in Arizona and southern California. It is common in Central and South America.

LUTHER'S SADDEST EXPERIENCE

"Luther, he was persecuted,

Excommunicated, hooted,

Disappointed, egged, and booted;

Yelled at by minutest boys,

Waked up by nocturnal noise,

Scratched and torn by fiendish cats,

Highwayed by voracious rats.

"Oft upon his locks so hoary

Water fell from upper story;

Oft a turnip or potato

Struck upon his back or pate, Oh!

And wherever he betook him,

A papal bull was sure to hook him.

"But the saddest of all

I am forced to relate:

Of a diet of worms

He was forced to partake--