THREE INTERESTING BUTTERFLIES FROM EASTERN 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Austin Hobart Clark, 



Assistant Curator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, United States National Museum. 



The three foUowing records relating to the diurnal lepidoptera of 

 eastern Massachusetts seem worthy of pubUcation. The specimens 

 upon which they are based have been deposited in the United States 

 National Museum. 



Junonia ccenia, which is abundant in the Southern States, reaches 

 the northern limit of its range in southern New England; Euphydryas 

 phaeton occurs from West Virginia and IMissouri northward to north- 

 ern Canada, reaching as far as Lake of the Woods; it is very local 

 in its distribution, but is usually very common wherever found; 

 Feniseca tarquinius ranges from the Mississippi VaUey and the Caro- 

 linas to Nova Scotia, but is rare and local in eastern Massachusetts. 



JUNONIA CCENIA Hiibner. 



In my private collection I had two specimens of this species, taken 

 in the summer months of 1895 or 1896, one in Mount Vernon Terrace, 

 Newtonville, the other just north of Mount Vernon Street, near the 

 NewtonviUe-West Newton border. The former has been lost, but 

 the latter is in the national collection. 



I have found this insect commonly at CoflSn's Beach, opposite 

 Annisquam, in July, but otherwise it is of very uncertain occurrence 

 in the middle and northern portions of the State. 



EUPHYDRYAS PHAETON (Drury). 

 Plate 32. 



In the latter part of June, 1897, while crossing a boggy meadow in 

 Newtonville, Massachusetts, bounded on the north by Otis Street 

 and on the east by Lowell Avenue, I found this species, previously 

 unknown in that locality, very abundant. Returning immediately 

 with my net, I captured about thirty specimens, among them the 

 one described below. So far as I know no butterflies of this species 

 have ever been taken in this locahty since. 



I found upon consulting the literature that my aberrant specimen 

 was essentially similar to one described by Strecker ^ as Melitxa (i. e., 



1 Butterflies and Moths of North America, 1878, p. 125. 



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