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after two days, as it had eaten nothing, though it had changed its position, 

 I returned it to the ice box, where it was in good condition on 20th Aug. 

 The larva died some weeks later, instead of passing the second winter as 

 I thought it perhaps might do. Of the extent of territory on the main 

 land occupied by Taylori, I am unable to speak. 



NOTES ON DANAIS ARCHIPPUS. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, W. VA. 



Now that the observations of my young friend, W. D. Marsh, on this 

 species, have been given in the Can. Ent. (xx., p. 45), I think no reason- 

 able person can doubt that it is at least three-brooded in New England, 

 and that the late butterflies hibernate there. Very late in the fall of 1887, 

 Mr. Marsh saw individuals flying, long after severe frosts had been felt, 

 and still later, he had butterflies come from pupae. These late fliers are 

 the hibernators. And early in the spring a hibernato;" had been seen at 

 Amherst. It seems that Rev. H. "W. Parker, when a resident at Am- 

 herst, some years ago, saw a hibernated Archippus, 12th May, 1871, as 

 appears by his notes published in Am. Nat., vol. vi., 115. This mention 

 had been lost sight of, but has recently been re-discovered by Mr. Scudder, 

 who called my attention to it. Of course this settles the matter, taken 

 together with the observations of Mr. Marsh, as to Archippiis hibernating 

 in Mass. 



Mr. Marsh has stated, and it is an original observation on his part, so 

 far as I know, that a great destruction of Archippus larvae takes place in 

 the fall, owing to the prevalent custom in New England of cutting the 

 grass a second time. Were it not for that, probably hibernated imagos 

 would be as abundant in the spring as they are in West Virginia. 



I asked Miss Emily L. Morton, residing at Newburgh, N. Y., to make 

 observations there on Archippus, for Newburgh is in sight of the hills of 

 New England, and it is not to be supposed that the behavior of any 

 species of butterfly would be different at Newburgh, in the latitude of 

 Northern Connecticut, from what it would be inside the bounds of New 

 England. Miss Morton wrote me that she had taken hibernated Archip- 



