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Sachem
Butterfly.--The upper side of the wings in both sexes is well represented in the plate. On the under side the wings are paler, with the light spots of the upper side faintly repeated. Expanse, male, 1.15 inch; female, 1.35 inch.
Early Stages.--These are described in full with painstaking accuracy by Scudder in "The Butterflies of New England." The caterpillar feeds on grasses.
The species ranges from southern New York to Florida, thence westward and southward into Mexico.