'C!]e Cmiabian ^ntnmolDpt. 



VOL. VI. LONDON, ONT., FEBRUARY, 1874. No. 2 



THE FOOD-PLANTS OF EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES. 



BY S. H. SCUDDER, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



Kaltenbach is publishing a work entitled Die Pflanzen-Feinde aus der 

 Ciasse der Insecteii, two parts of which have appeared and carry the 

 investigation through the willows. He enumerates all the German insects 

 kno^v^l to feed upon particular plants ; annotated lists of more than three 

 hundred species of insects are sometimes ascribed to a single tree. Among 

 these are many butterflies, and by collating them I have prepared the 

 following list, believing that, as it is fuller than any yet published, it will 

 be of great service to those who are endeavoring to discover or extend 

 the histories of our own butterflies. As soon as the work of Kaltenbach 

 is completed, a supplement will be prepared to this list. The nomen- 

 clature of the butterflies is altered to make it accord with Staudirger's 

 last catalogue. 



1. Apatiira iris — Salix caprea, S. aurita. 



2. " ilia — Salix, Populus tremula, P. dilatata. 



3. " " var, clytie — Populus tremula, P. canescens. 



4. Liiiienitis populi — Populus tremula. 



5. " Camilla — Lonicera coerulea, L. xylosteum, L. caprifolium, 



L. periclymenum. 



6. '• sibilla — Same plants as the preceding. 



7. Vanessa Irc'ana — Urtica dioica. 



8. '•' egea — Salix, Parietaria ofticinalis. 



9. " C. alhiun — Ulmus campestris, Humulus lupulus, Urtici 



urens, Ribes rubrum, R. grossularia, Corylus avel- 

 lana, Lonicera xylosteum. 

 10. " polychloros — Pyrus communis (pear), P. malus (apple), P. 



cydonia (quince), P. cerasus (cherry), Ulmus, 

 Salix, Populus, Cornus. 



