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skirt the i'orest. But it is rarely to be seen in the oj^en country, Avhere Ajihrodite 

 abounds. The males ajipear, in the Catskills, early in June, two or three weeks 

 before Aphrodite. They may be seen in company with Limenitis Arthemis and 

 L. Proser]>ina, alighted in small clusters among the damp leaves by the road side 

 or upon oflal of any description. All these species ars attracted by any decaying 

 animal matter, and a piece of meat or a dead bird or snake has irresistible charms 

 for them. Mr. Scudder, in the List of Butterflies of New England, mentions that 

 Atlantis is common in the valleys about the White IMountains the last of July and 

 early in August, which is a month and more later than they appear in the Cats- 

 kills. The northern specimens are diminutive in size. According to Mr. Scud- 

 der, Ajihrodite is not found among the White Mountains. The three sjiecies, At- 

 lantis, Aphrodite and Cybele occupy severally northern, middle and southern belts 

 of the Atlantic slope. Of the other two large Atlantic species, Diana strictly be- 

 longs to a belt still more southern than Cybele. Idalia alone is very generally 

 distributed, though nowhere common, being found occasionally from INIaine to 

 Georgia, east of the Alleghenies. 



The larvte of Atlantis I am unacquainted with, Ixit I am informed by Mr. 

 Scudder that the late Mr. C. H. Shurtleff found both larvte and pupfe at Eastport, 

 Maine. He seems to have left no memoranda respecting them but the following, 

 taken from his Journal ; " they susjiend themselves by the tail to rails, boards or 

 logs lying on the ground." 



