Above left—Gray Hairstreak. Above right—American Copper. Center—The Banded Purple
THE MENTOR · DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY
AUGUST 2, 1915
Entered at the postoffice of New York, N. Y., as second-class matter. Copyright, 1915, by the Mentor Association, Inc.
The earliest memories of my childhood cluster about a little manse in the countryside. In winter, when the drifts were deep and the house was snowbound, a usual recreation was to look at the cabinets containing shells collected in Jamaica by my father during his residence as a missionary on that island. I preferred, however, to feast my eyes on the contents of certain flat boxes of Jamaica cedar, in which many of the gorgeous moths and butterflies, as well as other insects, of that sunny island were displayed.
Fig. 1
MAGNIFIED SCALES OF BUTTERFLIES
1, 2, ordinary scales. 3-5, androconia, or scales from wings of male butterflies