218 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



pallid lips and a griseoiis areola. Posterior edge of the dorsum of the first Ave abdominal 

 segments notched in the middle. Length, 10.5 mm. ; height, 5 mm. ; width, 5 mm. 



Distribution (18:8). This insect appears to be almost exclusively 

 confined to the United States east of the great plains, and nearly every- 

 where is spoken of as abundant. It occurs all along the Atlantic coast, 

 even to southern Florida where, at Haulover, Mr. Schwarz has taken it ; 

 on the Gulf side Dr. Chapman finds it plentiful at Apalachicola, Gosse 

 records it from Alabama, and Strecker from Texas ; it is profusely abundant 

 in Iowa (Allen, Austin, Osborn, Putnam), occurs also rarely in eastern 

 Kansas (Snow), is reported from Fort Niobrara, Neb. (Carpenter) and 

 is common in Wisconsin (Hoy). Mr. Harrington says it is not common 

 in southern Michigan, but Mr. Saunders finds it plentiful in Ontario, where 

 Lowe reports it in Essex Co. It occurs elsewhere north of our border 

 in Quebec (Fyles), Montreal (Caulfield), Ottawa, common (Billings, 

 Fletcher), and at Sudbury, north of Georgian Bay (Fletcher). 



In New England it is found in all the southern and middle portions, but 

 is absent from or rare in the northern. The most noilhern points known 

 to me are Walpole (Smith), Plymouth, common (Scudder) and Mil- 

 ford, N. H. (Whitney); Norway, Me., where Mr. Smith found it in 

 abundance, Brunswick (Packard) and Portland, Me. (Lyman). It does 

 not occur in the White Mountains, although Hill records it from the Adi- 

 rondacks, but probably will be found close to their southern boundaries, 

 and quite as far north in Vermont. In the southern part of New England 

 it is exceedingly abundant. 



Haunts. The butterflies of this species frequent tall thickets and 

 groves, the border of open woods and partially shaded forest roads. Mr. 

 Saunders says : (Can. ent., ii : 139) "they delight in the sunny openings 

 found ofttimes in partially cleared woods, also in wooded lanes and roads 

 and the sunny edges of the forest, where by their peculiar jumping flight 

 they may be readily recognized, sometimes singly, at other times sporting 

 in twos and threes" ; to us, however, they seem usually to prefer more shade 

 than this extract would seem to imply. 



Oviposition. The eggs are laid singly on blades of grass, living or 

 dead. Observation has been made only upon imprisoned females. Mr. 

 W. H. Edwards found them "laid upon the grass, or dropped loosely 

 upon the sod or the earth." Of fourteen laid for me by one individual, only 

 five were laid on living blades, the remainder upon dead blades close to the 

 o-round. Those upon the living blades were all laid on the under surface, 

 whether prominent as everywhere excepting near the tip, or flat as near 

 the tip. They are slightly attached at indifferent heights from the ground, 

 the smaller blades of grass being apparently preferred. The duration of 

 the egg state is about thirteen days in the north, only eight days in West 

 Virginia. 



