416 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



FENISECA Grt. 



F. tarquinius Fab. Occurs throughout the State, but is local and nowhere 

 common. The larva is one of the few predatory caterpillars and feeds 

 on "Schizoneura tessellata," one of the woolly lice on alder. It is 

 found . throughout the summer and Mr. Beutenmuller records three 

 broods. 



CHRYSOPHANUS Doubl. 



C. thoe Bd.- Lee. Local and not common in the northern part of the 

 State; Schooley's Mt. (Aaron); Paterson VI, 12, VIII, 3 (Gr) ; Newark 

 district IX (div) ; Secaucus, on salt meadows (Sb); Elizabeth IX 

 (Bz); Staten Island VI, 20, IX, 12 (Ds). Mr. Beutenmuller records 

 two broods, VI and VII and VIII and IX. The larva on "Polygonum" 

 and "Rumex." 



C. epixanthe Bd. Lee. Newark 1 specimen (Erb); Jamesburg VII, 4 

 (div); DaCosta (Aaron); Brown's Mills Jc. VI, 17 (Dke); Lakehurst, 

 common in swamps where there are cranberry plants (Ds). 



C. hypophlaeus Bdv. Common throughout the State from May to October. 

 This is the common little copper butterfly that flutters about in fields 

 everywhere; the larvae on sorrel and clover, but never in injurious 

 numbers. 



LYCAENA Fab. 



L. ladon Cram, (pseudargiolus Bd. Lee.) Common throughout the 

 State, but somewhat local. The forms "lucia" Kirby, "marginata" 

 Edw., and "violacea" Edw., occur in April and May; the forms 

 "neglecta" Edw., and "pseudargiolus Bd. Lee., are found throughout 

 the summer and until September. According to Beutenmuller the 

 winter form lays eggs in the flower of dog-wood, "Cornus florida;" 

 the following brood oviposits on the flower stem of black snake-root 

 "Cimicifuga racemosa"; the fall brood occurs on "Actinomeris." 

 Other recorded food plants are wild bean, "Apios tuberosa," "Spiraaa," 

 "Ceanothus americana" and "Ilex." 



L. comyntas Gdt. The commonest of our little blues, occuring every- 

 where from May to September. There are three broods during the 

 season, the larva on clover, "Lespedeza," "Desmodium" and "Pha- 

 seolus." 



The two species, "couperii" Grt., and "scudderii" W. H. Edw., recorded 

 in the last edition as probably occuring in New Jersey, have not been 

 actually taken in the thorough collecting that has been done in the State 

 and are therefore omitted. 



